The Vault of the Adepti & Moina Mathers

"When the Candidate enters the Vault and kneels down at the Second Point, she does so at the centre of the Altar above the symbolic form of the Adept, who is the synthesis of the sides of the Vault, whence he has come forth and occupies a central position between Kether and the World of the Shades, being there protected by the rising glory of the Golden Cross and the Rose. " Moina created and painted the Vault in Paris and her husband, MacGregor, based an entire magical order on it. To the Mathers, the Vault of the Adepti represented the Alchemical Marriage, a transcendent, platonic sexuality.