The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

ECCLESIAE GNOSTICAE CATHOLICAE an holy bard; Apollonius Tyanaeus, Simon Magus, Manes, Basilides, Valentinus, Bardesanes and Hippolytus, that transmitted the Light of the Gnosis to us their successors and their heirs; with Merlin, Arthur, Kamuret, Parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the Lance and Cup, the Sword and Disk, against the Heathen; and these also, Carolus Magnus and his paladins, with William of Schyren, Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Roger Bacon, Jacobus Burgundus Molensis the Martyr, Christian Rosencreutz, Ulrich von Hutten, Paracelsus, Michael Maier, Jacob Boehme, Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, Andrea, Robertus de Fluctibus, Johannes Dee, Sir Edward Kelly, Thomas Vaughan, Elias Ashmole, Molinos, Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludovicus Rex Bavariz, Richard Wagner, Al- phonse Louis Constant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hargrave Jennings, Carl Kellner, Forlong dux, Sir Richard Payne Knight, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Doctor Gérard En- causse, Doctor Theodor Reuss, and Sir Aleister Crowley— oh Sons of the Lion and the Snake! with all Thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. May their Essence be here present, potent, puissant and paternal to perfect this feast! (At each name the DEACON signs with thumb be- tween index and medius. At ordinary mass it is only necessary to commemorate those whose names are italicized, with wording as is shown.) THE Propte. So mote it be. (THE EARTH) Tue Deacon. Mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart 261