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Lewis Keizer
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Bishop Lewis S. Keizer
Native nameLewis S. Keizer
Born1941/04/05
🏡 ResidenceAlameda, California
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
💼 Occupation
Gnostic Bishop
🌐 Websitehttp://www.hometemple.org/
🥚 Twitterhttps://twitter.com/LewisKeizer
👍 Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/lewis.keizer
📷 Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lewiskeizer/
Styles of
Lewis S. Keizer
Reference styleHis Excellency
Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleBishop

Lewis Stewart Keizer is an American Gnostic bishop. He serves as bishop of the Home Temple.

The biography on his website reads, "Dr. Lewis Keizer is a distinguished independent bishop, respected scholar, lecturer, and professional educator who has been writing and guiding men and women through spiritual studies since 1977.  One of the first bishops to ordain and consecrate women, he has been a champion of civil rights and women’s issues all his life.  He is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Religion, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and many other standard reference biographies. He was a student of Mother Jennie, a Spiritualist saint, for six years after leaving theological seminary and it was through her influence that he began to develop true interior spiritual practices and experiences. Dr. Keizer is a multi-talented person whose expertise crosses many disciplines and includes not only academics, but music and the arts, educational, social and environmental reform, and many other areas. He has written, taped, and developed materials for most of the topical areas of Home Temple study."

Contact Information[edit]

337 Bardue Street, Aromas, California 95004[1]

(831) 726-3192 work[2]

lewiskeizer@gmail.com[3]

Ministries[edit]
Title Ministry Years
Presiding Bishop International Synod of Home Temple Bishops
Significant Dates[edit]
  • 5 Apr 1941 - Born
  • 1969 - Ordained to the Diaconate by James Carman, Episcopal Bishop of Oregon
  • 1975 - Resigned from the Episcopal Church
  • 5 Apr 1975 - Ordained to the Presbyterate by Adrian Spruit
  • 14 Apr 1975 - Consecrated to the Episcopate by Adrian Spruit
  • 12 Jul 1993 - Mutual consecration sub conditone with George Boyer, Marie Lumazar, Tess Popper & Leila Boyer, in Boulder Creek, California.
  • 17 Jun 2012 - Mutual consecration sub conditone with Ronald Shelton (Celtic Apostolic Church) & John Paul Aloysius Plummer
Education[edit]
  • 1959 - National Merit Scholar
  • 1965 - B.S. General Studies in Humanities, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
  • 1968 - M.Div., Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 1973 - Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
  • 2002 - California State Single Subject Teaching Credential in Geosciences, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Works[edit]
  • Heterodox Judaism and the Sect of John the Baptist in the Background of John’s Gospel (1966)
  • Papyrological Studies in the Writings of Clement of Alexandria (1967)
  • “Ministers: The New Breed” (November, 1968) Episcopalian
  • Simplified Coptic Grammar With Comprehensive Texts and Glossaries (1969)
  • Exhaustive Bibliography for the Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (1973)
  • Sepher Ha-Razim and its Tradition: An Inquiry into the Interrelation of Jewish, Greco-Egyptian, and Chaldaean Magico-Mystic Practice in the Roman-Hellenistic Period (1973)
  • The Eighth Reveals the Ninth: A New Hermetic Initiation Disclosure Translation, edition, and interpretation of Tractate 6, Nag Hammadi Codex VI (1974) Doctoral Dissertation
  • “The Erotic Male: Men’s Stake in the Women’s Movement” (1975) The Men’s Anthology
  • “Christ and Women: A Refutation of the Anti-Feminist Heresy“ (1978) St. Thomas Journal
  • Initiation: Ancient and Modern (1981)
  • Ultrafundamentalism:  Assault on Democracy (1982)
  • The Authentic Jesus: A Guide to Aramaic Idioms, Recent Research, and the Original Message of Jesus Christ (1983)
  • The Gospel of Jesus Christ: The Simple Word of the Master Jesus (1984)
  • The Mysteries of Jesus Christ : A Commentary on the New Gospel of Jesus Christ (1985)
  • Prophecies Concerning the New Church (1986)
  • Priesthood in the New Age (1986)
  • Harmonic Intoning and Chanting: Instruction in Vocal Technique and Esoteric Principles of Chakra Attunement (1986)
  • Keys of the Master Concordance and Explanation of Aramaic Terms and Concepts Used by the Master Jesus (1987)
  • Mother Jennie’s Garden (1999) Biography of Keizer's Teacher
  • Astral Man to Cosmic Christ, with Bishop Eugene Whitworth (2000)
  • Initiation into the Grail Mysteries, with Bishop Timothy Storlie (2001)
  • The Wandering Bishops: Apostles of a New Spirituality (2001) formerly The Wandering Bishops: Heralds of a New Christianity (1983)
  • Yeshua, The Unknown Jesus, Biography of the Master Jesus (2008) Historical Fiction
  • The Kabbalistic Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: Recovering the Inner-Circle Teachings of Yeshua (2009)
  • The New Humanity: The Forgotten Kabbalistic Teachings of Yeshua and the Emergence of Global Spirituality (2010)
  • Abbaun: The Authentic Aramaic Meaning of the Lord's Prayer (2012)
  • Incarnating the New Humanity: Practicing Yeshua's Lost Halakah of Spiritual Rebirth (2013)
  • Pneumatikon: A Twenty-First Century Introduction to the Soul, Reincarnation, and Spiritual Realities (2014)
  • The Pre-Christian Teachings of Yeshua (2015)                                                                                                                                                               The
Listings[edit]
  • International Dictionary of Biography (Cambridge, England, 1976-1979)       
  • Community Leaders & Noteworthy Americans (Bicentennial, York, 1977)
  • Who's Who in Religion (New York, 1976-79)
  • Who's Who in America (New York, 1997, 1999)
  • Who's Who in the World (New York, 1998)
  • Who's Who among America's Teachers (New York, 1998, 2000)
In the News[edit]
Ordinations & Consecrations[edit]
  • 25 Nov 1976 - Keizer consecrated Michael George Zaharakis to the Episcopate
  • 19 Aug 1983 - Keizer consecrated Carlos A. Florido to the Episcopate, with Alan "Joseph Thaddeus" Stanford
  • 1986 - Keizer secretly consecrated Barbara Marx Hubbard to the Episcopate
  • 1986 - Keizer consecrated William Crouch to the Episcopate, with Alan "Joseph Thaddeus" Stanford
  • 22 May 1986 - Keizer consecrated Lawrence Thomas Williams, Jr. to the Episcopate in Watsonville, California
  • 19 Aug 1986 - Keizer consecrated William Charles Wise to the Episcopate, with Alan "Joseph Thaddeus" Stanford
  • 1989 - Keizer consecrated Marie Lumazar to the Episcopate
  • 12 Jul 1993 - Keizer mutually consecrated Leila Boyer, Marie Lumazar, Tess Popper & George Boyer to the Episcopate
  • 12 Jul 1993 - Keizer mutually consecrated Leila Boyer to the Episcopate
  • 21 Sep 1993 - Keizer consecrated Eugene Whitworth & Ruth Whitworth to the Episcopate, with Warren Smith & Tess Popper
  • 25 May 1994 - Keizer consecrated Robert Word to the Episcopate, with Eugene Whitworth, Tess Popper & Ruth Whitworth
  • 18 Jun 1994 - Keizer consecrated Warren Smith to the Episcopate
  • 1995 - Keizer consecrated Alberto LaCava to the Episcopate
  • 1995 - Keizer consecrated Christine Payne-Towler to the Episcopate
  • 22 Sep 1996 - Keizer consecrated Willa Esterson Keizer, Timothy Storlie & Ken Keach to the Episcopate
  • 1997 - Keizer consecrated Grace Franco to the Episcopate
  • 1997 - Keizer consecrated Woody L. LaCava to the Episcopate
  • 1998 - Keizer consecrated Robert Love to the Episcopate
  • 10 Nov 1998 - Keizer consecrated Elias Ibrahim to the Episcopate
  • 15 Jun 2003 - Keizer consecrated Wendy Love to the Episcopate, with Eugene Whitworth & Ruth Whitworth
  • 4 Jun 2006 - Keizer consecrated Isis Anya M. S. Kumara to the Episcopate
  • 3 Jun 2007 - Keizer consecrated Luis Eduardo Londono, Daniel Doornbos & Edward Barton to the Episcopate, with Willa Esterson Keizer & Ken Keach
  • 20 Nov 2011 - Keizer consecrated Christian Robertson to the Episcopate
  • 31 Mar 2012 - Keizer consecrated Owen Crouch to the Episcopate, witnessed by Rev. Alan Kemp
  • 3 Jun 2012 - Keizer consecrated Francois Bothma to the Episcopate
  • 17 Jun 2012 - Keizer mutually consecrated Ronald Shelton (Celtic Apostolic Church) & John Paul Aloysius Plummer to the Episcopate
  • 7 Aug 2012 - Keizer consecrated Anthony Civiletti to the Episcopate, with Mark Aelred, witnessed by Michael Bacon
  • 3 Mar 2013 - Keizer consecrated Ellie Bowen to the Episcopate
  • 29 Jun 2014 - Keizer consecrated Keith Campbell to the Episcopate
  • Nov 2015 - Keizer consecrated Roberto Certain Ruiz to the Episcopate
  • Nov 2015 - Keizer consecrated Milton Arrieta to the Episcopate
  • Nov 2015 - Keizer consecrated Luis Fernando to the Episcopate
  • Oct 2017 - Keizer consecrated Vernon Marshall to the Episcopate