Universal Gnostic Church News: New Bishop
Dec. 18th, 2024 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I'm delighted to announce that Claire Schosser has completed the course of study assigned to prospective ordinandas in the Universal Gnostic Church. As she received ex offico episcopal consecration in the UGC lineage when she became an Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America in 2019, and has since also qualified as a priestess in the Gnostic Celtic Church (a descendant of the UGC), I have formally confirmed her status as a priestess and bishop of the UGC. So there are now two of us. I've known Claire for well over a decade now; she joined AODA back when I was still its Grand Archdruid; she was also a student of the Dolmen Arch system when I was teaching it personally as a correspondence course, and worked her way straight through that rather challenging course to the highest degree of Gwyddon Rhydd (Free Loremaster). I am very pleased to be able to confer on her this additional rank -- and the responsibilities that go with it.
Please join me in congratulating Bishop Claire!
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Date: 2024-12-18 06:55 pm (UTC)-Cliff
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Date: 2024-12-19 02:06 am (UTC)Congratulations!
Date: 2024-12-18 07:42 pm (UTC)Strongbear
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Date: 2024-12-18 08:03 pm (UTC)Bishop Claire, congratulations! It's an inspiration for me to hear this success stories.
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Date: 2024-12-19 02:09 am (UTC)Congratulations
Date: 2024-12-18 08:24 pm (UTC)What a wonderful achievement! May you serve happily, successfully, and honorably!
Best of luck,
Inna
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Date: 2024-12-18 08:52 pm (UTC)Congratulations! That's wonderful. :-)
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Date: 2024-12-19 02:13 am (UTC)Congrats
Date: 2024-12-18 09:24 pm (UTC)I salute you and offer my congratulations on your achievement. Thank you for helping to spread Light and Healing into this world.
Humbly yours,
Courtney Coleman
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Date: 2024-12-18 10:03 pm (UTC)Cheers,
Jeff
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Date: 2024-12-18 10:25 pm (UTC)Your comments and postings are always appreciated.
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Date: 2024-12-18 11:51 pm (UTC)—Princess Cutekitten
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Date: 2024-12-19 02:27 am (UTC)Congratulations
Date: 2024-12-19 01:32 am (UTC)Thanks for all of the work you do!
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Date: 2024-12-19 02:18 am (UTC)- Psychedelic Racoom
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Date: 2024-12-19 02:37 am (UTC)This morning, following the SOP and meditation but before I read your email, I made the usual daily three card draw from the SGO. I drew 29 Transcendence, 3 Extension, and 22 Alternation (reversed). If that isn't TSW, I don't know what is.
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Date: 2024-12-19 04:26 am (UTC)I feel no particular call to the ministry. I accepted ordination and consecration in the UGC not because I wanted to become a priest and a bishop, nor because I felt it was appropriate for me to do the work of those offices, but (a) because it was an ex officio requiremnt of becoming an archdruid in AODA and (b) because I had an uncomfortable sense, even then, that I might well end up as the only person willing and able to invest the work to keep the tradition alive.
In other words, just as I handed over AODA, the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Order of Spiritual Alchemy to others, and turned the Dolmen Arch, the Modern Order of Essenes, and the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose into independent traditions with no hierarchical leaders, I'm looking forward to seeing new leadership take over the Universal Gnostic Church so I can focus on the work that matters most to me. Claire's elevation has therefore cheered me up no end. Especially now that I no longer have Sara to manage the secretarial end of things, as she did so capably for so many years, my notional headship of these traditions is a burden I'm quite eager to lay down. Once there are a few more bishops, that'll be the next logical step.
(BTW, with that in mind, is there anyone with graphic arts skills who's willing to design certificates for ordination to the priesthood/priestesshood and consecration to the UGC episcopacy? I have several people patiently waiting for certificates now, and my attempts in that direction have been frankly ugly.)
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Date: 2024-12-19 09:44 am (UTC)What kind of general idea do you have for the certifcations? Regarding Symbols and the technical side (Like Are you looking for someone who letters these things and sends it, Ort Are you looking for a template etc.)
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Date: 2024-12-19 07:00 am (UTC)Absolutely yaw-dropping, congratulations on all your achievements!
Best wishes and godspeed on your journey,
Emily07
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Date: 2024-12-19 08:32 pm (UTC)Congratulations!!
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