THE FIFTH COURSE
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History
- of the Clergy, of the Bishops in the Primitive Church
Religious Instruction
- Canon of Our Church
- The Device or Standard of Our Church
- Ecclesiastical Grades and Functions
- The Civil and Religious function of the Church
Theoretical Knowledge
- Duties and Privileges of the Acolyte / study ceremony
- Symbolism of
- the Lights and Luminaries
- The Pleroma
- The Spheres
- Sacred Music and Gregorian Chants at Services
- What is the Lost Chord
- What is the Esoteric teaching about the Harmony of the Spheres
Practical Application
- Learn to serve at the Ordination of an Exorcist (or) study the ceremony
- Learn to serve at a Marriage
- Learn to serve at a Funeral
- Learn to intone a Liturgy or Divine office in plain chant
Written Work
- Write a lecture on the "Last Judgement" as understood in the light of the Gnostic Eschatology and the Bridal Chamber of the Valentinian School
Gematric Study
- Numerical/Geometrical significance of the Holy Sanctuarie
- The Alter
- the Candles (7 in the premice of the Bishop)
- the Cross
- the Pronaeis (dias)
- the 14 stations
- the Six-fold Mystery
- What is the significance of the directions in which the alter is censed?
- Et Lux In Tenebris Lucet
- Et Tenebrae Eam Non Perciperant
Required Research Reading
- The Seal of the Gnostic Church by Rodger St. Victor Herard
- The Epistles of Ignatius
- The Didache
- The Pythagorean Source Book
- The Gospel of Philip
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