Magic Monday
Nov. 27th, 2022 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

The image? I'm still tracing my lineage in photographs. At some point after the death of Bishop Shaw, a question arose about the legitimacy of the apostolic succession of the Universal Gnostic Church. John Gilbert arranged to settle the matter in the traditional way by receiving sub conditione consecration from Archbishop Herman Adrian Spruit of the Church of Antioch; that's Archbishop Spruit in the photo. Sub conditione? That's the technical term for a second consecration given to a bishop in case the original one didn't have valid lineage, and Spruit was the man to give it.
He was born in 1911 and started out his religious career as a Methodist minister, but he became convinced that a more sacramental and less dogmatic approach to Christianity was needed, and so he joined the Independent Sacramental Movement and was consecrated as an independent bishop. At that time there were sixteen different lineages of apostolic succession outside the control of the established churches, and squabbles between independent bishops about the validity of the different lines were common. Spruit ended that in an exceptionally graceful way. He arranged to be consecrated sub conditione in all of the lineages, and then conferred the same consecration on any bishop or qualified candidate for the episcopacy who requested it. These days practically every bishop in the Independent Sacramental Movement has all sixteen lines -- yes, including me -- and the squabbles are over. Bishop Spruit's Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch remains an active independent church, and so do many of the other independent churches who received his blessing.
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Re: fooling with Satanism
Date: 2022-11-29 02:48 am (UTC)Re: fooling with Satanism
Date: 2022-11-29 04:59 am (UTC)It was scary what I mentioned in my above comment, for as much as I was able to stop it, it did affect me for a couple days, at least in the sense that it gave me the jitters. Divination suggested all was fine (and that I was reckless). No more praying for things other than blessings outside a magically protected space! I had no idea prayer could do that, but it seems it does... and it makes sense, since it was me who was doing the praying.
How does a magically protected space prevent from the interest to be raised? Are pestering things unable to see within it and thus when you close you are untraceable or is it that the energy of the magically protected space makes them want to run away?
Re: fooling with Satanism
Date: 2022-11-29 05:05 am (UTC)