Adept

An adept is an individual identified as having attained a specific level of knowledge, skill, or aptitude in doctrines relevant to a particular occult discipline, such as alchemy or magic.

According to Theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater, anyone can become an adept through spiritual development and self-improvement,[1] though others insist that initiation or esoteric transmission into a magical organization or tradition is a necessary preliminary.

[4] Madame Blavatsky makes liberal use of the term adept in her works[5] to refer to their additional function as caretaker of ancient occult knowledge.

She also mentions their great compassionate desire to help humanity and also documents other powers of the adept such as being able to take active control of elemental spirits as well as the physical and astral conditions of non-adepts.

[13] The oath of the Adeptus Minor includes a provision to "unite myself with my higher and Divine Genius",[14] a process which is sometimes equated with "Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel."