Meanwhile, Chiara opens the door of room 231 and lets the strange party in. Everemondo sits in the only chair available. Chiara and Minerva on the bed, Bruxa and Gauti lean on the desk, while the German professor remains standing in front of the entrance. Translated, this is what the conversation held by those six in English sounds more or less, the official language of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Chiara, after invoking the ritual formulas, affirms in a solemn tone: «I have summoned you here on this special night because, as Magister Templi, it is up to me to preside over the ceremonial that will bring one of us belonging to the Astrum Argentinum be elected to the highest office of the Order.» She pauses for a long time, then adds: «I leave the word to the divine within you.

