The Neo-Luciferian Church - Church Structure

Churchstructures of the

Neo-Luciferian Church

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STRUCTURES
The Neo-Luciferian Church (N.L.C.) has seven grades. They are:

Lightbearer
The First Grade in the Church is called Lightbearer. The Lightbearer is baptized into the Neo-Luciferian Church and chooses a name or motto in the Church. There are no specific requirements asked of the new member, but all applicants must be invited.

Deacon/Deaconess
The Second Grade in the Church is called Deacon/Deaconess, from the Greek diakonos, a servant. The Deacon or Deaconess participates actively in the work with the Mass and other ceremonial. The Deacon or Deaconess serves the priesthood of the Church.

Deacons and Deaconesses of the Church are encouraged to engage in ritual work and astral projection.

Priest/Priestess
The Third Grade in the Church is Priest/Priestess, from the Greek presbyteros, an elder. The priesthood of the Church serves the congregation by doing Mass, conducting baptism, funeral services, weddings, the ordination of Deacons and Deaconesses. A Priest or Priestess of the Neo-Luciferian Church may build his or her own congregation, or – if that be their will – work in solitude with the forces passes on.

It is common for the Priesthood of the Church to study sex-magic, alchemy, talisman and sigil magic, invocation, godsforms etc. All these disciplines are exceedingly active and we encourage all members to practise them.

High Priest/High Priestess
The Fourth Grade of the Church is that of High Priest/High Priestess, which is characterised by being an overseer and advisor of the different congregations. High Priests and High Priestesses are primarily concerned with the education of Church members.

Bishop
The Fifth Grade in the Church is that of Bishop, from the Greek episkopos, an overseer. The Bishops are the Church leaders and they ordain and consecrate in all Grades as they will. They are custodians of the Apostolic Successionlines within the church.

Arch-Bishop and Honorary Arch-Bishop
These grades are administrative only.

Seven Grades for seven is the number of Venus, the morningsstar.

Seven Grades for 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = 28, which is the mystic number of Netzach, a Sephira attributed to Venus in the Qabalah.

Seven Grades for the number 28 is the third perfect number and 3 is attributed to Binah, a Sephira denoting the Great Mother in her Scarlet Dress, our mother Aurora, the dawn.


Alchemy and its wide variety of symbolism is a frequent field of study among members of the N.L.C. The obvious sexual symbolism in western alchemy inspired such authors as Aleister Crowley to device specific sex-magical workings. .	The connection between alchemy, occultism and esoteric symbolism found within such systems as Freemasonry was a topic of early luciferian writers. Though Freemasonry in no way is ”luciferian” the rituals contain a veritable treasure-chamber of symbolism for the esoteric student.

ROOTS AND HISTORY

The Neo-Luciferian Church belongs in the succession from a number of churches, some Gnostic and Magical in origin, others belonging in the apostolic succession. Though the word ”church” suggests religion and dogma, the nature of the Neo-Luciferian Church is something apart from that. It was founded on Candlemass 2005 e.v. as a corporation between the Rt. Rev. Michael Bertiaux and the Rt. Rev. B.S. Pedersen, assisted by Rt. Rev. I.M. Berg. All of them belong to the episcopate of the Ecclesia Gnostica Spiritualis..

It had been a wish with the episcopate of the Ecclesia Gnostica Spiritualis, since the days of Rt. Rev. Marc Lully in the 1970ies, to re-establish a Danish Luciferian Church and carry on the magical current from Carl William Hansen (Ben Kadosh) and his Naassenic Gnostic Synod. The proclamation of the Neo-Luciferian Church in the winther of 2004-2005 e.v. rekindled that flame.

The Neo-Luciferian Church is a preparation of the individual in his or hers aspiration towards The Inner Sanctuary, that inner order which has no name among men. Magically we reckon with five stages, which are:

Pistis Sophia (”Trust/Faith in Wisdom”)
The Inner Sancturary
The Esoteric Temple

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N.L.C. – Inner part (Episcopate)
N.L.C. - Outer part (Members)

The term The Esoteric Temple denotes what is commonly called the Astral Plane. The Inner Sanctuary denotes the Inner Order and the Pistis Sophia is the term we use for the highest attainment. None of these exist on the physical plane, but all of them constitutes a reality to the magician.

The temple of Saturnus at Forum Romanum.

The Saturnus-Lucifer energies were emphasised by the Fraternitas Saturni, a German occult society dating back to the 1920'ies.The N.L.C. is spiritually linked to the F.S. current through the succession lines.

Saturnus also denotes the energies connected to Binah and the grade Magister Templi of the A.'.A.'.- the teaching order of Aleister Crowley. Crowley's successor Karl Germer was known as ”Frater Saturnus”.

Successionlines

1. Gnostic, Templar and Rosicrusian traditions

2. Anglican Church

3. Roman-Old Catholic Church

4. Vintrasian Carmelite Church

5. American Orthodox Catholic Church

6. American Greek Melchite Church

7. Armenian Uniate Church

8. Syro-Chaldean Church

9. Antiochian-Jacobit Church

10. Syrian Malabar Church

11. Boullanian Carmelite Church