Restoration of the Gnosis
​Decree of the Synod (1893)

The Holy Gnostic Synod enacts:

FIRST ARTICLE
The re-establishment of the hierarchy permits the restoration of Gnostic symbolism.

ART. II
The CONSOLAMENTUM, the BREAKING OF BREAD and the 
APPAREILLAMENTUM of the Albigensian Assembly are re-established.

ART. III
Bishops and their coadjutors, alone, can confer the CONSOLAMENTUM.

ART. IV
All Pneumatics, Perfecti or S∴I∴ can perform the BREAKING OF BREAD.

ART. V
The APPAREILLAMENTUM is the exclusive privilege of the Patriarchal throne.

ART. VI
L’Initiation will publish these three rituals incessantly.

ART. VII
The Martinist Order is declared to be Gnostic in essence. 
All S∴I∴ take rank in the class of the Perfecti.

ART. VIII
The Gospel according to John is the only Gnostic Gospel.

Given in Paris under the seal of the V.H. Gnostic Synod, 
this 28th day of the seventh month of year IV of the Restoration of the Gnosis.

+The Gnostic Patriarch, Primate of the Albigeois, Bishop of Montségur.
+The Bishop of Toulouse.
+The Bishop of Béziers.
+The Sophia of Warsaw.
+The coadjutor of His Grace the Patriarch, Bishop of Milan.
+The coadjutor of Toulouse, Bishop of Concorezzo.
+The Bishop Elect of Avignon.

By mandate of His Grace and the V.H. Synod.
Deacon Referendum

EXECUTORY

The Very H. Pleroma invoked, we order this Decree of 
the Very Holy Gnostic Synod executed in all Assemblies.

TAU VALENTIN,
Gnostic Patriarch,
Primate of the Albigeois, 
Bishop of Montségur.


Source:
L'Initiation, September 1893.