Abrasax is invoked in Aleister Crowley's 1913 work, " The Gnostic Mass " of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica:

Although no longer Christian, Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, also known as E. G. C., recognizes apostolic succession as a major spiritual tenet.

While not considered orthodox Christian, the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica uses roles and titles derived from Christianity for its clerical hierarchy, including bishops who have much the same authority and responsibilities as in Roman Catholicism.

Some of the Cao Dai saints and saints of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica are examples of such.

also includes the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica ( EGC ) or Gnostic Catholic Church, which is the ecclesiastical arm of the Order.

is a requirement for ordination as a priest or priestess in Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica ).

*** Magus of Light, and Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica

The Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, or Gnostic Catholic Church, is the ecclesiastical arm of O. T. O.

Ecclesia Gnostica ( Gnosticism | Gnostic Church ) Sign at the Los Angeles Headquarters.

The Ecclesia Gnostica ( Latin for The Church of Gnosis or The Gnostic Church ) is an openly Gnostic liturgical Church that is practicing publicly.

The organization now called the Ecclesia Gnostica was originally organized in England under the name the Pre-Nicene Gnostic Catholic Church in 1953, by the Most Rev.

While the church has no association with secret initiatory orders, and does not feel that anyone would become a better Gnostic merely by belonging to any, its clergy and laity are left free to join and / or be initiated into any and all organizations, " while they are earnestly requested to keep their activities in such organizations separate from their activities in the Ecclesia Gnostica.

Currently functioning as an educational organization associated with the Ecclesia Gnostica, the Gnostic Society provides resources on Gnosticism and Gnostic studies such as lectures, as well as, historic and source materials at The Gnosis Archive web site.

The Ecclesia Gnostica is a liturgical orthopraxy rather than an orthodoxy.

Ecclesia Gnostica ( Gnosticism | Gnostic Church ) chapel in Los Angeles, California.

Ecclesia Gnostica services consist of different liturgical celebrations usually based on traditional Western forms of Christian liturgy.

Like ancient Gnostic groups, the Ecclesia Gnostica blends several disparate traditions.

Statue of the Most Holy Sophia ( with enclosure ) in the Ecclesia Gnostica ( Gnosticism | Gnostic Church ) Chapel in Los Angeles, California.

In addition to the forms of liturgical service in the tradition of the Christian church, there is also the devotional service to the Holy Sophia that is unique to the rite of the Ecclesia Gnostica.

All are welcome to attend any service of the Ecclesia Gnostica or the Chapel of Ss.

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Stephan A. Hoeller, PhD, noted author and lecturer and a leading exponent of Gnosticism as living religious practice, has been director of studies since 1963, and is also the Bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica.

Philip O ' Sullivan Beare in his Historiae Catholicae Iberniae, published in Spain in 1620, gives the name ' Killnamollacham ' for the town and translates it into Latin as ' Ecclesia Tumulorum '.

In 245 BC, Aratus, the strategos of the Achaean League, attacked and damaged Amfissa, but the two leagues allied with the Roman general Titus Quinctius Flamininus against Philip V of Macedon, and after their win over the Macedonian king, Titus proclaimed Amfissa, among other cities, as an independent and tax-exempt polis, capital of Ozolian Locris, with its own Boule, Ecclesia and coins.

This oil is currently used in several ceremonies of the Thelemic church, Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, including the rites of Confirmation and Ordination.

* Mount Ecclesia, nature grounds in Oceanside, California with the international headquarters of The Rosicrucian Fellowship

This enemy is repeated with the same game mechanic and frames on the Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin & Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia also for Nintendo DS.

The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by Pope John Paul II's motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre who broke with him as a result of his consecration of four priests of his Society of St. Pius X as bishops on 30 June 1988, an act the Holy See deemed illicit and schismatic.

The Note is introduced by the following words: " A preliminary note of explanation is being given to the Council Fathers from higher authority, regarding the Modi bearing on Chapter III of the Schema de Ecclesia ; the doctrine set forth in Chapter III ought to be explained and understood in accordance with the meaning and intent of this explanatory note.

The purpose of the work, along with the Ten Articles of the previous year, was to implement the reforms of Henry VIII in separating from the Roman Catholic Church and establishing the Ecclesia Anglicana.

In September 2006, the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei established the Institute of the Good Shepherd, made up of former members of the Society of St. Pius X, in Bordeaux, France, with permission to use the Tridentine liturgy.

With letter 13 / 2007 of 20 January 2010 the Pontifical Council Ecclesia Dei responded positively to a question whether a parish priest ( pastor ) or another priest may on his own initiative publicly celebrate the extraordinary form, along with the customary regular use of the new form, " so that the faithful, both young and old, can familiarize themselves with the old rites and benefit from their perceptible beauty and transcendence ".

In an unusual development, the Areopagus acquired a new function in the 4th century BC, investigating corruption, although conviction powers remained with the Ecclesia.

* The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei The Vatican department which deals with relations with traditionalists

Since then, the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei has been in dialogue with the Society of St. Pius X to resolve matters of doctrine and discipline in question.

In the image, the dead and tortured body of Christ spouts water and blood, which are collected by a female figure recognizable as Ecclesia, the Church, in a chalice, that would become entangled with the Holy Grail legend in the future.

He wrote in 1311, by command of Clement V and in connection with the Council of Vienne, De modo celebrandi concilii et corruptelis in Ecclesia reformandis, in three books.

* Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia ( with Yasuhiro Ichihashi )

The founding of this Center marked a new period of intensive ecumenical involvement for Jenson: with Braaten, he organized numerous ecumenical conferences, and began publishing the theological journal Pro Ecclesia.

Awarded by Pope John Paul II with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal and by the President Aleksander Kwaśniewski with the Krzyż Zasługi.

The 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, which is instead concerned principally with what the Second Vatican Council called " particular Churches or rites ", has shortened this phrase to " autonomous Church " ( in Latin, Ecclesia sui iuris ), as in its canon 27: " A group of Christ ’ s faithful hierarchically linked in accordance with law and given express or tacit recognition by the supreme authority of the Church is in this Code called an autonomous Church.