ECCLESIAE GNOSTICAE CATHOLICAE
an holy bard; Apollonius Tyanaeus, Simon Magus, Manes,
Basilides, Valentinus, Bardesanes and Hippolytus, that
transmitted the Light of the Gnosis to us their successors
and their heirs; with Merlin, Arthur, Kamuret, Parzival,
and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the
Lance and Cup, the Sword and Disk, against the Heathen;
and these also, Carolus Magnus and his paladins, with
William of Schyren, Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Roger
Bacon, Jacobus Burgundus Molensis the Martyr, Christian
Rosencreutz, Ulrich von Hutten, Paracelsus, Michael Maier,
Jacob Boehme, Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, Andrea,
Robertus de Fluctibus, Johannes Dee, Sir Edward Kelly,
Thomas Vaughan, Elias Ashmole, Molinos, Wolfgang von
Goethe, Ludovicus Rex Bavariz, Richard Wagner, Al-
phonse Louis Constant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hargrave
Jennings, Carl Kellner, Forlong dux, Sir Richard Payne
Knight, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Doctor Gérard En-
causse, Doctor Theodor Reuss, and Sir Aleister Crowley—
oh Sons of the Lion and the Snake! with all Thy saints we
worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and
are to come.
May their Essence be here present, potent, puissant and
paternal to perfect this feast!
(At each name the DEACON signs with thumb be-
tween index and medius. At ordinary mass it is
only necessary to commemorate those whose
names are italicized, with wording as is shown.)
THE Propte. So mote it be.
(THE EARTH)
Tue Deacon. Mother of fertility on whose breast lieth
water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart
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