Stephan Hoeller

Stephan Hoeller
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Native name	Stephan A. Hoeller
Born	1931/11/27
🏡 Residence	Los Angeles, California
🏳️ Nationality	Hungarian-American
💼 Occupation
👍 Facebook	Stephan-Hoeller-214240268631343/

Styles of Stephan A. Hoeller
Reference style	His Excellency
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Stephan A. Hoeller is Hungarian-American Gnostic bishop. He serves as Presiding Bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica (Church of Gnosis).

His biography on Amazon reads: "Stephan A. Hoeller (b. November 27, 1931) is an American author, scholar and proponent of esoteric tradition and religion. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, of Austro-Hungarian nobility. Exiled from Hungary following World War II and subsequent Communist rule, he studied in academic institutions in Austria, Belgium, and Italy. In 1952, he emigrated to the United States, and has since resided in Southern California. An author and scholar of Gnosticism and Jungian psychology, Hoeller is the Regionary Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica, and the senior holder of the English Gnostic transmission in America. He has lectured in Australia, New Zealand, England, Europe, and the US. He is a national speaker for the Theosophical Society of America. Since 1963 he has been Director of the Gnostic Society in Los Angeles, where he continues to lecture on most Friday evenings."

Contact Information

3363 Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90039

(323) 467-2685 work

Ministries

Title	Community	Years
Presiding Bishop	Ecclesia Gnostica (Church of Gnosis)
Director	Gnostic Society of Los Angeles
Speaker	Theosophical Society of America

Significant Dates

• 27 Nov 1931 - Born in Budapest, Hungary
• 1958 - Ordained to the Presbyterate by Lowell P. Wadle (American Catholic Church)
• 9 Apr 1967 - Consecrated to the Episcopate by Ronald Powell (Richard Jean Chretien Duc de Palatin), John Martyn-Baxter & Forest Ernest Barber
• 2 Apr 1972 - Consecrated sub conditione by Herman Adrian Spruit, Neill P. Jack & Forest Ernest Barber

Education

• Ph.D. Philosophy & Philosophy of Religion, University of Innsbruck

Works

• "An Introduction to the Ecclesia Gnostica"
• "What Is a Gnostic?"
• "The Gnostic Catechism"
• "Gnostic Scriptures and The Gnostic Church"
• "The Gnosis of the Eucharist"
• "Position Paper on the Relation of the Ecclesia Gnostica & Secret Initiatory Orders"
• "Valentinus: A Gnostic for All Seasons"
• "Wise Men from the East"
• "On the Trail of the Winged God: Hermes & Hermeticism throughout the Ages"
• "Wandering Bishops: Not All Roads Lead to Rome"

• "C.G. Jung & the Alchemical Renewal"
• "Goddess Yes, Goddess No! The Feminine & the Multi-centered God Image"
• "The Mystery of Iniquity"
• "The Genesis Factor"
• "Humanity, Environment & Spirit"
• Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead: And the Sermons to the Dead
• The Fool's Pilgrimage: Kabbalistic Meditations on the Tarot (previously published as The Royal Road: A Manual of Kabalistic Meditations on the Tarot)
• Jung and the Lost Gospels: Insights into the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library
• Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society
• A Gnostic Catechism: Revised Edition
• The Mystery and Magic of the Eucharist: Revised Edition
• The Royal Road: A Manual of Kabalistic Meditations on the Tarot
• The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead
• The Lost Sayings of Jesus: Teachings from Ancient Christian, Jewish, Gnostic and Islamic Sources
• The Wisdom Research of Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller

In the News

• Antiquity's Gnostic Church Is Enjoying a Renaissance (2002) Los Angeles Times Magazine
• Exile in Godville (2005) L.A. Weekly
• The Rebirth of Gnosticism: An Interview with Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller (2014) New Dawn

Ordinations & Consecrations

• 19 Jan 1974 - Hoeller ordained Rosamonde I. Miller to the Presbyterate at Hoeller's Chapel of the Holy Sophia in Hollywood, California
• 16 Feb 1980 - Hoeller consecrated George W.S. Brister to the Episcopate, with Forest Ernest Barber
• 18 Jan 1981 - Hoeller consecrated Rosamonde I. Miller (Marashin) to the Episcopate, with Forest Barber (Ecclesia Gnostica), Herman Spruit (Church of Antioch) & Neil Jack (Church of the Sacred Wisdom), at the Gnostic Sanctuary, Sanctuary of the Holy Shekinah, in Palo Alto, California
• 22 Mar 1987 - Hoeller ordained Steven Marshall to the Presbyterate
• Oct 1998 - Hoeller consecrated John Cole (Tau Iohannes Harmonius) to the Episcopate
• 23 Oct 2011 - Hoeller consecrated Steven Marshall to the Episcopate, with Rosamonde Miller
• Unk - Hoeller consecrated Alberto LaCava (Tau Ignatius of Alexandria VII) to the Episcopate

Quotes

• “A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.”
• “Gnosticism is a system of thought based on interior, psychospiritual experience. This being the case, it is not surprising that Gnosticism emphasizes states of mind and regards actions as secondary in nature and importance. Gnostics have always held that consciousness, rather than external action, is the true indicator of moral worth.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “When desire is killed out by a variety of methods of meditation and contemplation, what remains is a psychic corpse from which the libidinal cosmic force of the vital surge has been artificially removed.” The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead: And the Sermons to the Dead
• “Among philosophical tendencies, existentialism owes much to Gnosticism, and today an increasing number of folk in many walks of life profess to being Gnostic.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Bishop Irenaeus of Lyons, a fierce opponent of the Gnostics, attacked them for their spiritual and literary creativity, accusing them of producing a new gospel every day. Implicit in his statements was the view that where such a wealth of diverse imagery, myth, and teaching exists there can be no coherent doctrine equivalent to the dogma and canon of the mainstream Christian church. What critics from Irenaeus to contemporary scholars lose sight of is that Gnostic teaching is the direct result of the experience of gnosis.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “One of the towering figures of the age of Enlightenment was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, known to this day in German-speaking lands as the poet of princes and prince of poets. Unlike Voltaire, he openly practiced esoteric disciplines, particularly alchemy. He wrote a famous verse about the Cathars, which translated says: “There were those who knew the Father. What became of them? Oh, they took them and burned them!” Goethe's chief work, of course, is his Faust. As noted in chapter 8, the figure of Faust was inspired by the image of the early Gnostic teacher Simon Magus, one of whose honorific names was Faustus. While in Christopher Marlowe's sixteenth-century play,” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “According to Gnostic teaching, the world is a mixture of the seeds of light and of darkness. Though it is impossible to distinguish between them now, in the fullness of time they will separate naturally, as ordained.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Gnosticism has always been difficult to define, largely because it is a system of thought based upon and frequently amended by experiences of nonordinary states of consciousness, and thus it is resistant to theological rigidity.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Man sows good wheat seed in his field, but later finds that an enemy has sown weeds among the wheat. When the workers ask if they should pull the weeds out, the farmer tells them to allow both wheat and weeds to grow until the time of the harvest, when the two can be more easily separated.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Long as a person will not raise his or her consciousness beyond the physical world to higher, spiritual realities, the soul's enslavement in darkness—whether darkness in the outer, physical world or in” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are hastening of what we are being freed of what birth really is of what rebirth really is. (Excerpta de Theodoto)” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “The created world, including a major portion of the human mind, is seen as evil by the Gnostic primarily because it distracts consciousness away from knowledge of the Divine.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Suggested that Gnosticism expressed a specific religious experience, which was frequently turned into a myth. . . . It seems clear that at least some of the major Gnostic systems were inspired by vivid emotions and personal experience. And it is now generally accepted that Gnosticism was not a philosophy, or even a Christian heresy, but a religion with its own specific views about God, the world, and man. (“Gnosticism,” in Cavendish, Man, Myth, and Magic 1115) And, we might add, Gnosticism is a religion replete with sacraments that liberate the soul.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Marcion did not accept Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John as trustworthy, for he saw many corruptions, interpolations, and falsifications in them. And if Marcion was critical of the New Testament, he was downright hostile toward the Old Testament, even suggesting that it should not be included in the canon of the Christian church.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Gnostics (and Buddhists) have often been labeled pessimists and world haters because of their willingness to look the dark face of the world in the eye. Yet, both of these traditions affirm that there is a way out of suffering and ignorance, and that this way out involves an essential, salvific change in consciousness.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Gnostic teachings speak of the reality and power of evil and its fundamental presence throughout manifest existence. They declare that while we may not be able to rid the world or ourselves of evil, we may, and indeed will, rise above it through gnosis.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “Historically and geographically speaking, Gnosticism developed at the same time and in the same places as early Christianity, with which it was, and remained, entwined—Palestine, Syria, Samaria, and Anatolia, and later, Ptolemaic Egypt.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “To sum up, salvation to the Gnostic means not reconciliation with an angry God by way of the death of his son, but rather liberation from the stupor induced by earthly existence and an awakening by way of gnosis.” Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
• “All of us are in desperate need of the restoration of our wholeness through union with our inmost self.”

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