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The Pleromic Light Unveiled is a scholarly yet devotional guide to the Holy Gnostic Liturgy of the Pleromic Light, the central sacramental rite of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma (ACP). Written by the Church's Archbishop and Patriarch, Tau Phosphoros, this instructive monograph walks the reader through every stage of the Mass - from the Preliminary Rites and the layout of the Temple, through the Invocation of the Aeons and Archangels, to the Eucharistic Prayer, the Litany of the Gnostic Saints, and the Theurgic Consecration - offering a clear and detailed commentary on the meaning, structure, and theurgical function of each part.
Organized according to the three alchemical phases of Black, White, and Red, the Liturgy is presented as an original synthesis: heir to the sacramental and initiatic lineage of the French Gnostic Church, through the Patriarchates of Tau Synésius, Tau Jean II (Bricaud), and Tau Jean III (Robert Ambelain), and woven through with elements of the Hermetic Corpus, the theurgical tradition of the Élus Coëns and the Martinist Order, Qabalistic invocation, and the spiritual alchemy that Ambelain transmitted with such brilliance. The author traces this lineage further back through the ancient Gnostic Doctors, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, and the great luminaries of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French occultism, situating the Liturgy within the deep continuity of Western Gnostic and initiatic tradition while affirming its living, original character as the central rite of the ACP.
This Second Edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded, with new material on the Temple's spiritual layout, the doctrine of the Demiurge and the Archon Sabaoth, the Invocation of the Aeonic Luminaries, the Prayer to the Holy Spirit as Mother-Father, the Act of Faith and its doctrine of the three bodies, and the Eucharist as communion with the Tree of Knowledge - together with an expanded Litany honoring, among others, the Most Rev. Stephan A. Hoeller.
Whether read by clergy and members of Gnostic churches, Martinist and Rosicrucian orders, and esoteric Masonic bodies, or by scholars of Western esotericism and the Independent Sacramental Movement, this monograph offers both a working liturgical commentary and a window into a living tradition of theurgical Christianity - one that unites the sacramental, the initiatic, and the alchemical in the pursuit of Gnosis.
