We were thrown to the lions in the circuses of Rome, and we celebrated our rituals in the catacombs. We were burnt alive in the flames of the Roman Catholic inquisition. We accompanied Jesus Christ in the Holy Land. We were the mystical Essenes of Palastine; we are not improvising opportunist doctrines. We were hidden during twenty centuries and we are now returning once again to the street carrying on our shoulders the old, rough and heavy cross.

Paul took our doctrine to Rome and he was a Nazarene Gnostic.

Christ taught our doctrine in secrecy to the seventy disciples.

The Sethani, Peratae, Carpocratians, Nazarenes and Essenses are Gnostic. The Egyptian and Aztec Mysteries, the Mysteries of Rome, Troy, Carthage, of Eleusis, India, of the Druids, Pythagoreans, Kambirs, of Mithra and Persia, etc. are in their entirety that which we call Gnosis or Gnosticism.

We now once again open the ancient Gnostic Sanctuaries which were closed upon the arrival of the dark age.

We are now opening the authentic Initiatic Colleges. - Excerpted from The Major Mysteries by Samael Aun Weor.

There are four very important paths that every Perfect Matrimony must know:

1. The path of the fakir
2. The path of the monk
3. The path of the yogi
4. The path of the well-balanced human being

The Universal Christian Gnostic Movement has school and religion.

We experience the first path in practical matters learning to live with rectitude.

The second path is within our church. Our Gnostic Church has its sacraments, rituals and its convent life.

The third path has to do with occult practices. We have our esoteric practices, special exercises for the development of the latent powers in the human being.

On the fourth path, which is "The Path of the Astute Man," we live practically in the most complete equilibrium. We study Alchemy and Kabbalah. We work on the disintegration of the psychological "I."

We are not members of the Roman Catholic Church. This church only follows the path of the monk. We follow all four paths. We have the path of the monk in our Gnostic religion with its Patriarch, Archbishops, Bishops and Priests. That is why we do not belong to the Church of Rome.

We are not against any religion, school or sect, either. Many priests of the Roman Church have come to our ranks. People from all organizations have become affiliated with our Gnostic Movement.

Our Gnostic Church is one of the most complete ones. On the path of the fakir, we learn to live with rectitude. On the path of the monk, we develop emotion. On the path of the yogi, we practice esoteric exercises that activate the latent occult powers of man. On the path of the balanced man, we work with Alchemy and with Kabbalah, and we struggle disintegrating the "I."

Our Gnostic Church is the Transcendent Church. This church is found in the Superior Worlds.

We also have many temples in the physical world. In addition, we have opened thousands of Gnostic Lumisials where holy rituals are celebrated and the secret doctrine of the beloved saviour of the world is studied. We must not forget that our Gnostic Movement has both school and religion.

It has already been decisively confirmed that Jesus the Christ was Gnostic. The saviour of the world was an active member of the cast of Essenes, mystics who never cut their hair or their beards.

The Gnostic Church is the authentic primitive Christian church whose first Pope was the Gnostic initiate called Peter. Paul of Tarsus belonged to that church. He was a Nazarene. The Nazarenes were another Gnostic sect.

The primitive Christian church was the true main esoteric trunk from which many other neo-Christian sects sprung forth, such as: Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Adventism, the Armenian Church, etc.

Frankly, we have made the resolution to make the root of Christianity, Gnosticism, publicly known. This is the primitive Christian Church. The Patriarch Basilides belonged to the Gnostic Church. He was the celebrated alchemist who left a seven page book of lead, which, according to Master Krumm-Heller, is preserved in the Kiercher Museum of the Vatican. This book cannot be understood by archaeologists because it is a book of occult science. Basilides was a disciple of Saint Matthias.

Roman Catholicism of today is not true Catholicism. Legitimate, authentic, Catholicism is the primitive Christian Catholic Gnostic one. The current Roman sect is only a deviation of primitive Gnostic Catholicism. Frankly, this is the basic reason why we have completely distanced ourselves from the Roman sect.

Saints such as: Saturninus of Antioch, the celebrated Kabbalist, belonged to the primitive Christian Catholic Gnostic Church; Simon the Magician, who unfortunately deviated; Carpocrates, who founded several Gnostic convents in Spain; Marcion of Ponto, Saint Thomas, Saint Valentine; the great Master of Major Mysteries called Saint Augustine; Tertullian; Saint Ambrose; Irenaeus; Hippolytus; Epiphanius; Clement of Alexandria; Mark, the great Gnostic who took care of the Holy Gnostic Unction and left us the extraordinary teachings about the path of sexual forces through the twelve zodiacal doors of the human organism. Also Cerdon, Empedocles, Saint Geronimo and many other saints were members of the primitive Christian Catholic Gnostic Church from which the current Roman sect deviated.

Excerpted from The Perfect Matrimony - or the Door to Enter into Initiation (1950) by Samael Aun Weor.

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