A Gnostic Line of Succession - "Up Line"
The Gay Gnostic Fraternity, Trinity Grove and Avalonian Druidcraft hold several Gnostic lines of succession as well as a respectable Martinist lineage. The following "up line" from the Gnostic Catholic Church is just one example, notable for the inclusion of a few well known names.
Because there is a tactile succession, with the laying one of hands, from one consecrator to another the whole line may be activated to make an inner planes connection with an individual or a group, for magical purposes and for what has been aptly described as "the consecrational transferance of initiatic energies".
Because there is a tactile succession, with the laying one of hands, from one consecrator to another the whole line may be activated to make an inner planes connection with an individual or a group, for magical purposes and for what has been aptly described as "the consecrational transferance of initiatic energies".
- Gérard Encausse (Papus), consecrated bishop in 1893, who consecrated:
- Theodore Reuss, consecrated in 1908, who consecrated:
- Aleister Crowley, consecrated in 1912, who consecrated:
- William Bernard Crow, consecrated in 1944, who consecrated:
- Henry George Brook, consecrated in 1944, who consecrated:
- Mar Georgius I (Hugh George de Willmott Newman), consecrated in 1945, who consecrated:
- Mgr Illtud (Michel Raoult), consecrated in 1967, who consecrated:
- Mgr Koulmer (Henri Hillion), consecrated in 1970, who consecrated:
- Mgr Mael de Fournier de Brescia, consecrated in 1972, who consecrated:
- Mar Francois-Marie de Fourneir de Brescia, consecrated in 1972, who consecrated:
- Mar Tur Shemsho (Tau Héliogabale, Willy Fiorucci), consecrated in 2013, who consecrated:
- Mgr Philippe C. Leroux (Tau Jean Phyleas), consecrated in 2014, who consecrated:
- Mgr Alistair H. Bate (Tau Blaise), consecrated sub-conditione in 2016.
