Aeon418
Would you say then, that the Hermit is a Master of the Temple?
The grade of Hermit is a kind of catch-all term for the Supernal grades. So at the very least he is a Master of the Temple. But the body and mind he uses as a 'vehicle' is that of the Exempt Adept 7=4 that he was before he became NEMO. (Note how we can't see the Hermit's face. He is Nemo - No Man.)
From the Abyss comes No Man forth, but a Star startles the Earth, and our Order rejoices above that Abyss that the Beast hath begotten one more Babe in the Womb of Our Lady, His concubine, the Scarlet Woman, BABALON.
Ask yourself: then what happens to he discarded elements of the Adept? They cannot be left as they are, to disintegrate, or to become vehicles for obsession. This entity which was the Exempt Adept has been built up in years of unremitting toil, as worthy Workshop wherein the Great Work should be accomplished. It has moreover been sanctified and glorified by the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
So as each Master has his own appointed Work to perform in the world, he is cast down into the Sephira, suitable for that work. If his function is to be that of a warrior, he would find himself in Geburah; if that of a great poet or composer, in Tiphareth; and so on. He, the Master, inhabits this dwelling; but, having already got rid of it, he is able to allow it to carry on according to its nature without interference from the false Self (its head in Daäth) which hitherto had hampered it. ("If I were a dog, I should bark; if I were an owl, I should hoot," says Basil King Lamus in The Diary of a Drug-Fiend.) He is totally indifferent to the Event; so then he acts and reacts with perfect elasticity. This is the Way of the Tao; and that is why you cannot grasp the very idea of that Way—much less follow it!—unless you are a Master of the Temple.
The Pyramid and slanted ray of light are possibly Harris' abstract representation of a Master following the Way. The Lamp that he carries shines with LVX and guides those who "cannot grasp", "much less follow" the Way of the Tao.