Declaration of the Statutes of the Gnostic Church
Published in ‘Les enseignements secrets de la gnose, avec des notes documentaires par Ŧ SYNÉSIUS, patriarche de l’Église Gnostique de France, 1906.’
In conformity with the law of the 9 of December 1905, and within the deadline fixed by that law, a declaration was made with the Prefect of the Seine, about our Association of worship under the name of l’Église Gnostique de France (The Gnostic Church of France).
A receipt of the declaration was delivered to us on the date of the 7 of December 1906, bearing the number 152.405.
This declaration was inserted in the columns of the official Journal of the 31 of December, 1906.
Finally, two copies of the Statutes of our association, as well as a list of 25 people charged with the direction of the Association were joined to our declaration.
Following is the tenure of the said Statutes:
I. Gnosticism is a traditional and philosophical doctrine. It has the goal of restoring the primitive unity of religion.
II. Gnosticism does not impose itself on consciences by violence or by threats of punishments after death.
III. It professes in conformity with its name, that the true religion is a Complete Science, and by this fact, it includes a doctrine of evolution which is ever open to the unlimited (indefinite) progress of human intelligence.
IV. It is accessible to men (human beings), without distinction with regards to nationality, languages or race.
V. These are admitted to the fullness of the gnostic teachings and truths by successive grades which are conferred only through the merit and intellectual quality of the aspirants.
VI. Gnostic ceremonies, dogmas and rites are expressly respectful of the Laws of the Republic (France).
VII. The French Gnostic Church is under the high direction of a patriarch, which has Paris as his episcopal residence and who bears the title of Bishop of Montségur, in remembrance of the massacre of the last Albigesians. But his tittle does not confer on this head of the Church any dogmatic supremacy. He is simply primus inter-pares (first amongst equals) and cannot take any decision without the important approbation of the Holy Synod.
VIII. The Holy Synod is composed of the gnostic Bishops of France.
IX. The (main) characteristic of the Gnostic Church is to represent and reconstitute the ancient, democratic and egalitarian Christian Church.
Followed by the 25 signatures.
In conformity with the law of the 9 of December 1905, and within the deadline fixed by that law, a declaration was made with the Prefect of the Seine, about our Association of worship under the name of l’Église Gnostique de France (The Gnostic Church of France).
A receipt of the declaration was delivered to us on the date of the 7 of December 1906, bearing the number 152.405.
This declaration was inserted in the columns of the official Journal of the 31 of December, 1906.
Finally, two copies of the Statutes of our association, as well as a list of 25 people charged with the direction of the Association were joined to our declaration.
Following is the tenure of the said Statutes:
I. Gnosticism is a traditional and philosophical doctrine. It has the goal of restoring the primitive unity of religion.
II. Gnosticism does not impose itself on consciences by violence or by threats of punishments after death.
III. It professes in conformity with its name, that the true religion is a Complete Science, and by this fact, it includes a doctrine of evolution which is ever open to the unlimited (indefinite) progress of human intelligence.
IV. It is accessible to men (human beings), without distinction with regards to nationality, languages or race.
V. These are admitted to the fullness of the gnostic teachings and truths by successive grades which are conferred only through the merit and intellectual quality of the aspirants.
VI. Gnostic ceremonies, dogmas and rites are expressly respectful of the Laws of the Republic (France).
VII. The French Gnostic Church is under the high direction of a patriarch, which has Paris as his episcopal residence and who bears the title of Bishop of Montségur, in remembrance of the massacre of the last Albigesians. But his tittle does not confer on this head of the Church any dogmatic supremacy. He is simply primus inter-pares (first amongst equals) and cannot take any decision without the important approbation of the Holy Synod.
VIII. The Holy Synod is composed of the gnostic Bishops of France.
IX. The (main) characteristic of the Gnostic Church is to represent and reconstitute the ancient, democratic and egalitarian Christian Church.
Followed by the 25 signatures.