“Ego Mater Pulchrae Dilectionis: A Negotio Perambulante
In Tenebris.”
“I Am the Mother of All Graces Who Guides the Pilgrims
In the Night.”
The Christian Philosophy of which the Great
Law of Love is the Central Pivot constitutes the Foundation
of the Doctrine of the Gnostic Church..
Remembering Christ's promise to watch over
those who keep and put into practice His Precepts and His
Commandments thus perpetuating the New Covenant sealed by
His precious Blood, the Eglise Gnostique sincerely intends
to crystallize the aspirations of its Members into an intense
Faith in the Glorious and Luminous Christ who for two Millennia
has transmuted himself into a receptacle for the Ideals
of Love and Truth which propels all Christians truly worthy
of the Name. She believes and affirm the existence of The
Essential One, the Almighty and Eternal God that exists
by Itself and in Itself from which derives all formative
and generative Emanations (Eons) of the various and innumerable
existences.
She professes the Tri-Unity as being the
Summary of the Manifestation of the Essential One on the
Three Plans: Divine, Human, and Natural and considers Creation
to be the reflection of this Triplicity: Energy, Essence,
Spirit; Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
She affirms and teaches that two Forces,
equal in Power and Energy, compete by their coexistence
to engender Universal harmony.
From this eternal Dualism is born the concepts
of Good and Evil. She believes that Creation is imperfect
and a manifestation the work of a Demiurge that does not
possess the Total Knowledge of The Immanent, Transcendent
Absolute Being but that strives, however, toward Perfection,
Attribution of the Original Source: The Primordial Unity.
The Eglise Gnostique professes that Humankind,
created in the image of God, is also of divine Essence and
therefore immortal and Eternal in the constituent elements
of his Creative Principle.
She recognizes the existence of the resurrected
Glorious Christ and of which the Holy unchangeable and invisible
presence in the ”Eucharist” manifests every
day in all Men filled with the Aspiration to attain to Total
Perfection.
Making hers the Principles taught since
the most ancient of times on the Feminine Aspect of Divinity,
she practices and encourages the recognition and adoration
of the Virgin Mother symbolized by “Our Lady Mary
the Mother of God.” She places the Ministers of her
Clergy under the auspices of the famous Black Virgin of
which the most striking representation is that of Czestochowa
and whose proud and protective Motto constitutes an invitation
to the soul thirsty for Mercy and Grace: “Ego Mater
Pulchrae Dilectionis, a Negotio Perambulante In Tenebris.”
“I Am the Mother of All Graces, Who Guides the Pilgrims
In the Night.”
She looks to promote the ecumenism that
she considers to be an Aspect of the Great Law of Love formulated
by Christ. She maintains Ties of Friendship therefore with
all Religious Communities who have made Tolerance and Kindness
into the unbreakable Shield of their Christian Charity or
that recognize the high spiritual value of the Holy Gnosis
as conceived by Clement of Alexandria and Origen, that is
to say purified of the mistakes of the Primitive church.
However, she grants the use of her altars only to those
Ministers whom she recognizes and who are in possession
of a valid Apostolic Succession, whose Transmission constitutes
the unique Guarantee of the efficiency and the Validity
of their Priesthood.
Following the very wise and prudent example
of the apostle Paul, she neither encourages nor discourages
Marriage or Celibacy for Ministers of the Church, allowing
each to decide for themselves either to marry, or, as was
the custom among the Perfecti of the medieval Cathars, to
rise to the Zenith of Wisdom where the Spiritual are able
to reach their full and complete Sublimation.
She forbids herself to interference in
the political business of States, but recommends that the
Chiefs and Leaders of the People conduct themselves with
Moderation and Kindness in the exercise of their Functions
as Emmisaries of Divinity to precipitate the expansion of
Universal Peace amongst the whole of Humanity.
The Eglise Gnostique presents as didactic
elements, and as a starting point, a Scriptural Corpus of
“Holy Writings” composed of various Texts grouped
in two Categories called the Old and New Testament. This
ensemble consists of the Books retained as definitely Canonical
by the Roman Catholic Church in her Council of Trent. For
the Eglise du Plérôme, they constitute the
exoterism of Christian Gnosis.
The Eglise Gnostique presents as complementary
elements destined to permit a certain explanation of the
first a series of so-called Apocryphal Texts, whose List
is, due to possible further archaeological discoveries,
not Limited. These Judeo - Palestinian, Syrian, Armenian,
Coptic, Arabic, Egyptian, etc. source texts contain, for
her, narrations that may not necessarily be historic, but
merely mythical, never-the-less permitting her to gather,
verify, develop and complete the Esoterism of so-called
Canonical Texts.
The Eglise Gnostique declares that she
considers as true Gnostic Commentaries, the Complete Corpus
of the works of Origen Adamantius, Doctor of the school
of Alexandria and of Clement of Alexandria. Considering,
indeed, how likely the Oral Doctrine would have been to
perpetuate itself comfortably until that time, since it
was the immediate Disciples of the apostle Mark who constituted
the famous Alexandrian School of Catechesis, that it was
these direct Disciples who instructed Pantaenus, the Master
of Clement of Alexandria who was the teacher of Origen.
Utilizing the Council of these and other
'Doctors,' the Eglise Gnostique does not hesitate to search
for justifying antecedents of the universality of Christian
Gnosis within the major non-Christian religions, previous
or parallel (particularly the classical and early Christian
Gnostic schools), as well as within the Sciences either
Profane or occult, while nevertheless still maintaining
their teaching within the scope of the Traditions both Written
and Oral of Christianity and especially of the interior
action of the Holy Spirit: “Then He opened their minds
so that all understood the meaning of the Writings…”
As a consequence, the Study of Gnosis cannot
be partitioned with limits, no matter how thin the barrier.
This Knowledge, coming especially from the action of the
Holy Spirit on every individual, according to his own understanding,
is in relation with each individual’s own present
state of evolution. |