Not everyone relates to Ancestral Egbe in the same way. Some people support the work, some receive services, some study over many years, some serve on the team, and others enter formal spiritual or initiatory relationships.
The levels below run from Level 1, the highest public responsibility layer, down to Level 7, the broadest support layer. The order clarifies responsibility and authority; it does not measure a person's worth or spiritual potential.
Level 1
Senior Practitioner or Leadership
Senior practitioners and leaders carry recognized responsibility for teaching, supervision, ritual work, organizational governance, or the protection and transmission of the Egbe work.
Inheritance: Highest public responsibility level, based on demonstrated knowledge, character, service, experience, and accountability.
- Teach, mentor, or supervise students and developing practitioners
- Provide authorized spiritual services only within earned scope
- Protect ethical, lineage, organizational, and long-term governance standards
Level 2
Initiate or Godchild
An initiate or godchild enters a formal covenantal relationship involving spiritual formation, lineage connection, continuing accountability, and long-term development.
Inheritance: Deep spiritual relationship; does not automatically create employment, team authority, teaching authority, or senior leadership.
- Commit to prescribed study, correction, shrine discipline, and mentorship
- Honor ritual obligations and the ethics of lineage relationship
- Understand that initiation deepens responsibility rather than replacing practical accountability
Level 3
Team Member
A team member accepts a defined responsibility within Ancestral Egbe in administration, technology, communications, cultural education, coaching, events, outreach, priestly services, or another specialized area.
Inheritance: Organizational trust, responsibility, and accountability; does not automatically confer initiation, priestly rank, or spiritual lineage status.
- Represent the work with maturity, consistency, and professional clarity
- Coordinate with leadership and other practitioners inside an assigned function
- Serve a defined function without blurring that role into spiritual lineage status
Level 4
Student-Associate
A student-associate maintains an ongoing educational and developmental relationship through instruction, practice, classes, mentoring, or long-term study.
Inheritance: Deeper and more continuous than a single service relationship, but not the same as godchild status, initiation, priestly authority, team membership, or lineage obligation.
- Study and practice consistently across the assigned area of development
- Respect martial arts, yoga, cultural, ancestral, Ori, Egun, Egbe, divination, ritual-literacy, and shrine-discipline tracks as distinct study areas
- Use student standing as formation, not as a claim of authority
Level 5
Client
A client receives a defined service such as coaching, consultation, divination, spiritual diagnosis, healing, ritual work, shrine support, or another specific form of assistance.
Inheritance: Case-based or periodic service relationship; does not automatically create membership, organizational authority, student standing, godchild status, or initiation.
- Participate honestly in readings, treatment plans, and assigned follow-through
- Honor the time, ritual, and diagnostic requirements of the service container
- Use the service relationship to clarify whether longer-term mentorship is appropriate
Level 6
Affiliate
An affiliate has an acknowledged relationship with Ancestral Egbe based on shared mission, reciprocal support, collaborative activity, referrals, cultural education, or community work.
Inheritance: Clearer alignment than general support, but not automatically client, student, team member, initiate, or representative status.
- Maintain reciprocal support and mission alignment where appropriate
- Use clear referral or collaboration channels when deeper support is needed
- Recognize that organizations may become organizational affiliates through a separate partnership relationship
Level 7
Supporter
A supporter is a friend of Ancestral Egbe, its leadership, or some aspect of the work who offers goodwill, practical friendship, or occasional help.
Inheritance: Open support relationship with no requirement of formal agreement with the complete mission, spiritual framework, or organizational direction.
- Attend events, share information, make introductions, volunteer, or contribute resources when moved to do so
- Support the work without being treated as staff, student, initiate, or representative
- Remain a valued supporter indefinitely without needing a more formal relationship
