Rule Concerning Church Sentiment

A Work In Progress Frater Phoenix, III

TO HAVE THE TRUE SENTIMENT WHICH WE OUGHT TO HAVE IN THE CHURCH GNOSTIC Let the following Rules be observed. First Rule. All judgment laid aside, we ought to have our mind disciplined and our body prompt to heed, in all, the true Spouse of the Son, BAPHOMET, which is our holy Daughter the Church Gnostic of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the word of whose Law is Thelema. Second Rule. To praise exaltation of a Priest, and the reception of the most Holy Eucharist of the Sanctuary once in the year, and much more each month, and much better from week to week, with the conditions required and duly performed. Third Rule. To praise the communication of Mass often, likewise hymns, psalms, and prayers, in the church and out of it; likewise all Canonical Rituals of the Elements and Feasts of the Times. Fourth Rule. To praise much Religious Orders, Chastity and virtue, and so much Marriage as equal to any of these. Fifth Rule. Finally, to praise those precepts of the Church Gnostic Light, Life, Love and Liberty keeping the mind disciplined and the body prompt to find reasons in their defense and in no manner against them. Sixth Rule. We ought to be more vigilant to find good and praise as well the Constitutions and recommendations as the ways of our Superiors. Because, although some are not or have not been such, to speak against them, whether preaching in public or discoursing before any or all, would rather give rise to fault-finding and scandal than profit; and so the people would be incensed against their Superiors, whether temporal or spiritual. Seventh Rule. To praise them worthy that did of old manifest the glory of the Son unto men, Lao-tzu and Siddhrtha and Krishna and Tahuti, Mosheh, Dionysus, Mohammed and To Mega Thrion, with these also, Herms, Pan, Priapus, Osiris and Melchizedek, Khem and Amoun and Mentu, Hracls, Orpheus and Odysseus; with Vergilius, Catullus, Martialis, Rabelais, Swinburne, and many an holy bard; Apollonius Tyanus, Simon Magus, Manes, Pythagoras, 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, Roderic Borgia Pope Alexander the Sixth, Jacob Boehme, Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, Andrea, Robertus de Fluctibus, Johannes Dee, Sir Edward Kelly, Thomas Vaughan, Elias Ashmole, Molinos, Adam Weishaupt, Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludovicus Rex Bavari, Richard Wagner, Alphonse Louis Constant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hargrave Jennings, Carl Kellner, Forlong dux, Sir Richard Payne Knight, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Paul Gauguin, Docteur Grard Encausse, Doctor Theodor Reuss, and Sir Aleister Crowley.

Eighth Rule. We ought to be on our guard in making comparison of those of us who are alive to those from whose eyes the veil of life hath fallen, because error is committed not a little in this; that is to say, in saying, this one knows more than Pythagoras; he is another, or greater than, To Mega Thrion; he is another Arthur in goodness, holiness, etc. Ninth Rule. Although there is much truth in the assertion that no one can ascertain fully the Writing of the Prophet or communicate such meaning to another; we must be very cautious in the manner of speaking and communicating with others about all these things. Tenth Rule. In the same way, we must be on our guard that by talking overmuch and with much insistence of Mystery, without any distinction and explanation, occasion be given to lead people to be lazy and slothful in their own Great Work, whether before understanding is enlightened or after. Eleventh Rule. Likewise, we ought not to speak with insistence on faith that the poison of discarding liberty be engendered through blindness. So that of Light, Life, Love and Liberty one can speak as much as is possible for the greater praise of the Divine Light of our one secret and ineffable LORD, but not in such way, nor in such manners, especially in our so dangerous times, that the Great Work of Mankind and pure will of any individual receive any harm, or be held for nothing.
Based wholly on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola [RTFToC159]