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Ecclesia Gnostica

The Ecclesia Gnostica (Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
for The Gnostic Church) is a gnostic

Gnosticism

Gnosticism refers to diverse, syncretistic religious movements in antiquity consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that humans are divine souls trapped in a Nature created by an imperfect god, the demiurge; this being is frequently identified with the Abrahamic God, and is contrasted with a superior entity, ref...
church

Church Body

A local church is a Christian religious organization made up of a congregation, its members and clergy. They are organized more or less formally, with constitutions and by-laws, maintain offices, sometimes seek non-profit corporate status in the United States and often have state or regional structures....
organized in England

England

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
originally under the name Pre-Nicene Gnostic Catholic Church. It is centered in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
with parishes in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
, Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
, Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC....
, Sedona, Arizona

Sedona, Arizona

Sedona is a city and community that straddles the county line between Coconino County, Arizona and Yavapai County, Arizona counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the U.S....
, and Oslo, Norway.

It has a sister organization named the Gnostic Society

Gnostic Society

The Gnostic Society is an organization founded in Los Angeles, California in 1928 by James Morgan Pryse and his brother John Pryse for studies of Gnosticism....
, which also run the gnosis.org website on gnosticism. This organization is intended for studies of gnosticism, not religious services.

The bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
of the church is Stephan A. Hoeller

Stephan A. Hoeller

Stephan A. Hoeller, is a writer, scholar and religious leader. Born in Budapest, Hungary he received a Ph.D. in philosophy with a minor in the philosophy of religion from the University of Innsbruck in Austria....
, a notable Gnostic who has written extensively on Gnosticism

Gnosticism

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The Ecclesia Gnostica (Latin

Latin

Gnosticism

Church Body

England

United States

Los Angeles, California

Seattle, Washington

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
, Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC....
, Sedona, Arizona

Sedona, Arizona

Gnostic Society

Bishop

A bishop is an ordination or consecration member of the Clergy#Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight....
of the church is Stephan A. Hoeller

Stephan A. Hoeller

Gnosticism

Jan Valentin Sæther

Jan Valentin S?ther is a Norway Figurative art Painting, sculptor and gnosticism priest. He was professor of figurative painting at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo between 1996 and 2002....
is the proxy bishop of Norway.

The Ecclesia Gnostica celebrates five initiatory sacraments as listed in the Gospel of Philip

Gospel of Philip

The Gospel of Philip is one of the Gnostic Gospels, a text of New Testament apocrypha, dating back to around the third century but lost to modern researchers until it was rediscovered by accident in the mid-20th century....
: Baptism

Baptism

In Christianity, baptism is the ritual act, with the use of water, by which one is admitted as a full member of the Christian Church and, in the view of some, as a member of the particular Church in which the baptism is administered....
, Chrism or Confirmation, Eucharist

Eucharist

The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion or Lord's Supper and other names, is a Christianity sacrament commemorating, by consecrating bread and wine, the Last Supper, the final meal that Jesus Christ shared with his disciples before his arrest, and eventual crucifixion, when he gave them bread saying, "This is my body", and wine...
, Redemption (sacrament) and Bride-Chamber. With the additional two sustaining sacraments of Holy Orders

Holy Orders

Historically, the word "order" designated an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy, and :wikt:ordinatio meant legal incorporation into an ordo....
, and Anointing of the Sick

Anointing of the Sick

Anointing of the Sick is distinguished from other forms of religious anointing or "unction" in that it is intended, as its name indicates, for the benefit of a sick person....
. (The sacraments of Penance

Penance

Penance is repentance of sins as well as the proper name of the Catholic and Orthodox Christian Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation/Confession....
and Matrimony, are considered to be secondary sacraments having been substituted for those of Redemption and Bride-Chamber.)

The sacrament of Redemption is designed to deliver a person from the shackles of the Demiurge and the Archons. The effects traditionally held by the Gnostic Church are: (1) It remits all of one's faults and gives one the strength not to commit grave offenses; (2) It perfects in one the change produced by the Baptism of Water; (3) It makes one the temple of the Holy Spirit; (4) By its effects practitioners become complete Christians;(5) It renews the link between one's soul and the Twin Angel or Deific Double from whom one has been separated at one's descent into the Archonic realm; (6) Finally, it assures one of one's liberation from the cycle of birth and death and thus frees one of the necessity of future embodiments on earth.

The sacrament of Bride-Chamber is used in order to seal the effects of the sacrament of redemption, uniting the soul of the practitioner with that of the twin angel or Deific Double and similarly also unites the soul with God in the Fullness (Pleroma

Pleroma

Pleroma generally refers to the totality of divine powers. The word means fullness from comparable to which means "full", and is used in Christian theological contexts: both in Gnosticism generally, and by Paul of Tarsus in Colossians 2.9....
).

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