The Door

The form is the likeness. A child watches a parent long enough to move like them, speak like them, want what they want. The first degree is that watching. You learn the attributes of God — the C words — the character, and the perfections, until you want to be exactly like Them, not out of duty but out of love. This is also where the past is cleared. Nothing is added upon a floor still covered in rubble, so the first work of the Door is the clearing: forgiven, released, restored, set down. Only then does the course begin.

“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.”

2 Timothy 3:5

Godliness is the form kept long enough to become structure. The second degree is the architecture of a soul: the attribute is no longer copied, it is built in. This is the doing of rounds — the same law walked again and again, each round higher than the last, so the growth is exponential and not merely repeated. An heiress does rounds. This is the segue into kingship and queenship, where character becomes an estate that can hold weight.

“Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness.”

2 Peter 1:5–7

The third degree is authority. Not the appearance of godliness and not only its nature, but the power thereof — the right and the ability to act. This is the order Jesus held as a Prince, the order of Melchizedek: a king and a priest at once, joining heaven and earth in one person. Here you grab intelligence — light and truth — and act like God until acting like Them is second nature, and then keep going until it is first nature. Heiresses of God. Heirs of God. This is the true queen and the true king.

“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.”

Romans 8:17