Stephan A. Hoeller is an American author, scholar, and

neo-Gnostic Gnosticism in modern times includes a variety of contemporary religious movements, stemming from Gnostic ideas and systems from ancient Roman society. Gnosticism is an ancient name for a variety of religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewis ...

bishop.

Career

An author and scholar of

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and

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, Hoeller is Regionary Bishop of

Ecclesia Gnostica Ecclesia Gnostica (Latin: The Church of Gnosis) is an open sacramental neo-Gnostic church in Los Angeles. It has ordained clergy and conducts regular sacramental services, including two weekly Masses (Celebration of the Holy Eucharist), as we ...

. Hoeller was ordained to the priesthood of the

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by Bishop Lowell P. Wadle in 1958. He was consecrated to the Gnostic episcopate by Richard Duc de Palatine on April 9, 1967. Ronald Powell (who took the ecclesiastical name Richard Jean Chretien Duc de Palatine) had established a modern-day Gnostic church, the Pre-Nicene Gnostic Catholic Church, in England during the 1950s - de Palatine received his successions from British independent prelate Hugh de Wilmott-Newman in 1953. After the death of Duc de Palatine in the 1970s, Hoeller abbreviated the church's name, in Latin form, to

.Introduction to the Ecclesia Gnostica
/ref> He has continued to serve as bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica for over four decades. Hoeller has lectured in Australia, New Zealand, England, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Hungary, Germany, and the United States. He is a former member of the lecturing faculty of the late

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, and a national speaker for the

Theosophical Society in America The Theosophical Society in America (TSA) is a member-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the teaching of Theosophy and affiliated with the international Theosophical Society based in Adyar, Chennai, India. The name "Theosophical Society in ...

. Since 1963 he has been Director of Studies for the Gnostic Society centered in Los Angeles, where he has lectured every Friday evening for many decades. He was a frequent contributor to ''

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'' magazine; and has also written for ''Quest Magazine'' and for many professional journals. He is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the College of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles, California.

Partial bibliography

*''The Royal Road: A Manual of Kabalistic Meditations on the Tarot'' (1975), Second Edition republished as: ''The Fool's Pilgrimage, Kabbalistic Meditations on the Tarot'' (2004) *''The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead'' (1982), *''Jung and the Lost Gospels'' (1989), *''Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society'' (1992), *''Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing'' (2002), *''A Gnostic Catechism - Revised Edition'' (2020), *''The Mystery and Magic of the Eucharist - Revised Edition'' (2020),

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External links

Audio lectures by Stephan Hoeller
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