Adeptus Minor means, “Little Adept” in Latin.
Once the individual learns to control the elements and mastered all the lessons of the former degrees, he or she must learn their unique path back to God and understand that they will reincarnate until they complete it. The individual must learn that Life, the Universe, and Creation is an endless Wheel that is a constant turning of perspective. He or she must learn that evolution is not linear, but moving the consciousness closer to the center of the wheel. The individual must awaken the feminine current that is within the Self. This will cause the death of the current personality and the beginning of the formation of a purer one. This death is called the Dark Night of the Soul. This experience begins here.
In Hermeticism and Spiritual Alchemy, the work of this degree corresponds to the step of Fermentation.
According to the Kabala, this degree corresponds to Tiferet on the Tree of Life.
On the level of Practical Magick, the individual must learn to trust the intuition and be more creative.