The Temple Seal

The seal of the Temple of Sia-Hu Ptah, Order of the Golden Dawn, in the Outer. The cross and triangle at center, flanked by the divine figures of Egyptian tradition.

About Our Temple

The Temple of Sia‑Hu Ptah

A chartered temple of the Order of the Golden Dawn, in the Outer.

The Temple of Sia‑Hu Ptah is a fully warranted Temple of the Order located in the St. Petersburg/Tampa, FL area. As a Temple, it may perform initiations, hold formal ceremonial meetings and study group meetings for its members, as well as offering open classes to the public.

To contact the Temple of Sia‑Hu Ptah, you can email cancellarius@siahuptah.org or apply online for membership here.

The Theological Foundation

Why Sia-Hu Ptah

The name of our temple is drawn from the Memphite theology of ancient Egypt — a body of teaching as old as the Pyramid Texts, preserved on the Shabaka Stone, and central to the Egyptian current that has always run beneath the Golden Dawn system.

"There took shape in the heart, there took shape on the tongue the form of Atum. For the very great one is Ptah, who gave life to all the gods and their kas through this heart and through this tongue. For every word of the god came about through what the heart devised and the tongue commanded."

— The Shabaka Stone, Memphite Theology (c. 710 BCE, preserving a much older tradition)

Sia — The Heart

👁️ Perception

Sia (sȝ) is the divine personification of perception, intelligence, and understanding — described in scholarly literature as "probably equivalent to the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah in the Memphite theology." He is the divine mind that conceives before any word is spoken.

Hu — The Word

𓂋 Utterance

Hu (ḥw) is the divine personification of creative utterance — authoritative speech, the word backed by truth and power. In the Memphite theology he personifies the tongue of Ptah, the instrument by which what the heart conceives is spoken into being. The cosmos arises from this utterance.

Ptah — The Source

⊕ The Architect

Ptah is the first cause, the Great Architect of the Gods — the transcendent ground from which both heart and word proceed. He creates not by physical act but through the perfect harmony of conceiving mind and spoken word. He is patron of all craftsmen, architects, and builders, including Freemasonry's own tradition.

The Analog, Honestly Stated

A triadic theology of creation — not the Trinity, but its cousin

The Golden Dawn has always worked at the convergence of traditions, and the name of our temple holds this convergence explicitly. Ptah, Sia, and Hu are not the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — but they trace the same deep structure: a transcendent source, an aspect of perceiving intelligence, and an aspect of creative word, three expressions of one creative ground.

The Memphite theology arrived at this structure independently of — and often millennia before — the traditions with which it rhymes. The Shabaka Stone's language, "what the heart devised and the tongue commanded," echoes the opening of the Gospel of John without borrowing from it. Both are readings of the same ontological fact.

For a Golden Dawn temple this analog is particularly apt: Ptah is the patron of architecture and the craftsman's art, central to Masonic symbolism; Sia and Hu are cosmological forces present throughout the Egyptian texts we work with ritually. The name is not ornamental — it is a theological statement about the nature of the creative act that the Grade ceremonies re-enact.

[Extended theological statement about the temple's Egyptian orientation — to be completed]

Ptah and Freemasonry

The Patron of Builders

Ptah holds a particular place in the Masonic and Rosicrucian streams that feed the Golden Dawn tradition. As the divine patron of craftsmen, architects, and all who build according to divine plan, he stands behind the symbolism of the working lodge and the initiated builder.

[Extended treatment of Ptah's Masonic and Rosicrucian connections — to be completed.]

[Masonic/Ptah text — to be completed]

The Temple Cross and Triangle

Our Symbol

[Description of the temple's own cross-and-triangle symbol, its elements and significance, and how it differs from or relates to the Order symbol — to be completed.]

Working with Our Temple

The temple is open to sincere seekers

Those drawn to the Egyptian and Hermetic current, to the structured initiatory work of the Golden Dawn, and to the creative theological vision of Sia-Hu Ptah are welcome to reach out.

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