Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica : The Gnostic Catholic Church Boast



ECCLESIA GNOSTICA CATHOLICA
The Gnostic Catholic Church Boast

by Peter-R. Koenig

While the O.T.O.’s initiatory system is a sort of Kafkaesque bureaucratic club game, it has a religiously associated section under its obedience: The Gnostic Catholic Church. The O.T.O. intends "to restore Christianity to its real status as a solar-phallic religion".
The technical term for the bishopric in the context of the O.T.O. Phenomenon is Wandering Bishop or Episcopi Vagantes. This status is not defined by character qualities, not by education or theological position. These bishops are not elected by a canonical church, are not proposed as an ordain by a suffragan and not bound to a historical episcopal see or consecrated by an 'official' bishop according to the canonical procedure.
A 'real' bishop is not a successor of a sole apostle because only the synod/college of bishops in toto is heir to the college of the apostles.
Therefore: no Wandering Bishop has a 'real' apostolic succession. There is no Holy Ghost in Wandering-Bishop-consecrations.
The instrumentum consecrationis is of no apostolic value. Nevertheless, Wandering Bishops are collectors of papers and diplomas...

Gnostic Gnollections

In the 'Caliphate's' church newsletter "Gnostic Gnews" Vol. 1 Nº 3, (California 1989) readers would have seen in 1989 on page 4 one of the claimed suppositious lines of apostolic succession claimed by the 'Caliphate':

"May 29, 1882 Bishop Julius Alvarez consecrated Msgr. Joseph René Vilatte.
December 19, 1915 Bishop Vilatte consecrated Msgr. Gregory Lines.
December 21, 1927 Bishop Lines consecrated Msgr. Joseph A. Justin Boyle. Bishop Byole consecrated Msgr. Paul Wadle.
April 1, 1960 Bishop Wadle consecrated Msgr. W.W.Webb.
November 4, 1967 Bishop Webb consecrated Msgr. Marc A. Lully.
December 25, 1967 Bishop Lully consecrated Msgr. Michael P. Bertiaux.
1971 Bishop Bertiaux consecrated Msgr. Jack B. Hogg. Jr.
August 12, 1974 Bishop Hogg, Jr. consecrated Msgr. Tav Silenius" [= William Breeze]



The Magical Link

William Wallace Webb / "Damon" consecrated Lully by letter in 1967; Lully then introduced Bertiaux into this succession. The highly complex links between Ronald Powell (who also called himself 'Richard Duc de Palatine'), Herman Adrian Spruit, Paul Wadle, Stephan A. Höller and Forest Ernest Barber have had to be omitted on grounds of space.
Jack B. Hogg Jr. was ordained on June 2nd 1968 by Bertiaux, assisted by Lully. He was consecrated again on July 24th 1970 by Bertiaux, Frank Lopez O'Brien and Antonio Paez. On August 15th 1973 Bertiaux' OTOA officially accepted the Law of Thelema. On August 12th 1974 Hogg ordained William Breeze - today the 'Caliph'. Again, on July 27th 1980, Hogg was ordained by Bertiaux and Jean-Maine. Breeze himself makes no appearance in the OTOA journals produced at this time ("The Mirror of Misraim", after 1974 "Labyrinthos", and then "Instrumentum").

W.W. Webb stated: "I did give Bertiaux and Lully confirmation to Bishop, by letter, so they would be Legal in the state of Illinois, to satisfy them at that time [...] 1966 or 67."
"Wadle never made me a Bishop", merely into a Deacon of the "American Catholic Church."




Corroborated by Stephan A. Höller, who was ordained a priest by Wadle in 1959: "I consider it prima facie impossible that Bishop L.P. Wadle consecrated W.W. Webb." letter of 22.1.90.



When Doves Cry

A witness: [...] "the point of all this is that through a certain point Bill [Breeze] was utterly convinced of the importance of the Apostolic Succession, and David [Scriven] all the more so. I don’t know *exactly* what happened, but Bill seems to have “freaked” at the Webb-isn’t-a-bishop stuff from Herr Koenig" [...]. Allen Greenfield, http://tausirhasirim.livejournal.com/46617.html 27 September 2006


William Breeze: "To a Catholic theologian this consecration was invalid on any number of doctrinal points. These include lack of preparedness (I had not been ordained a priest); lack of "intention" (I was not consciously aware at the time of what was being done); supposed "gaps" in the the [sic] underlying succession (one of two of my consecrator's antecedents had apparently been consecrated by mail, on the astral, or both), etc. etc. I don't particularly care, and for good reason. It is not on the historical "apostolic succession" (as defined by Christian theologians) that my consecrator was possessed of the "afflatus," pneuma, "cosmic consciousness," energized enthusiasm, or whatever you wish to term it, necessary to true gnostic consecration. It is this essential energy that the Gnostic Mass was designed to induce in its officers. Their success in this is the key to the efficacy of the Mass" [page 27]


"As nearly as I can tell, the OTO changed its ‘party line’ on the Apostolic Succession based almost solely on the critique of Herr Peter Koenig" [...].
"Thereafter, he [Breeze] tended to dismiss the whole idea, though as late as the 1990s he himself was making bishops [...]There is reason to believe he may well have been validly consecrated by Marc Lully and perhaps Mother Serena (so was his QBLH successor, Soror Tala)" [...]. Allen Greenfield, http://tausirhasirim.livejournal.com/46617.html 27 September 2006. See also My Own O.T.O.A.

"The Apostolic Succession is probably at least two thousand years of magical power being transferred under cover of religion. It is probably much, much older. As an egregore, it is formidable, and if the OTO upper management dismissed it because Herr Koenig complained about a ‘weak link’ it is a tribute to Koenig’s power and to Breeze’s and Scriven’s intellectual and moral cowardice." [...] Allen Greenfield, http://tausirhasirim.livejournal.com/46617.html 27 September 2006. The reader is referred to above scans of documents.

[...] "Koenig's 'case' is mere propaganda. The right and wrong of it is less important than the illustration of the mopral [sic] and intellectual cowardace [sic] of "the great leaders" in the face of what seems to have been the rather shallow opinions of one Swiss crank." Allen Greenfield, http://tausirhasirim.livejournal.com/46617.html 27 September 2006. Barking up the wrong tree. Fact is: It was W.W. Webb who declined ever having been consecrated by Paul Wadle.




    The Threepenny Gnostic Opera with charters of e.g. Manuel Cabrera Lamparter, William W. Webb et. al.
    History of the Gnostic Churches related to the O.T.O. and O.T.O.A.
    Der O.T.O.A.-Reader contains a lot of further picture material
    The Gnostic Lineages of the O.T.O.A. and related organisations and Churches
    "Ljuben je zakon" or "ljubav pod voljom"? O.T.O. and O.T.O.A. in former "Yugoslavia"
    Anti 'Caliphate' hunt in Serbian Papers
    O.T.O. groups and O.T.O.A. in Italy
    The History of the XI° and the Choronzon Club
    A letter of Michael P. Bertiaux to Gary M. Kelly / Martin
    My O.T.O.A. 1987-1991
    How William Breeze lost an Apostolic Succession
    The Typhonian O.T.O., with material from Maggie Ingalls on the Ma'at-Continuum



 

       

 


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