Wearing the Ankh
A sign of affinity
The Ankh may be worn by anyone who shares the purpose of the Apotheotic Order. It is a sign of affinity, not a proof of rank.
The sign may be worn by associates, members and Knights Apotheon alike. It may be worn as a pendant, a ring or a pin, or set after a name in a signature or letter. The Order supplies no official form of the symbol, and an Ankh made by the wearer’s own hand is held in particular regard.
Because the sign is open to everyone, its use says nothing certain about the wearer’s standing. It does not show whether they are an associate or a sworn knight, and the Order discourages any attempt to infer membership from it. Members do not announce their membership publicly; the Ankh is the accepted way of showing, quietly, where one’s sympathies lie.
Those who wear it may be asked what it means. They are free to answer in their own words, speaking perhaps of its Egyptian meaning as the sign of divine life, and of the Order’s reading of it as the gift of a mind able to create.
The Ankh is an ancient sign and belongs to no single community. The Order uses it with respect for the Egyptian tradition that produced it, and for those, among them the Christians of Egypt, who have kept it since.