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The '''Gnostic Saints''' are listed in [[Liber XV]], also known as the Gnostic Mass, which is the central rite of [[OTO]]. They are part of the Fifth [[The Collects|Collect]], "The Saints." 

In the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] and Orthodox churches, a saint is a person who has been canonised (officially recognized) after their death. However, in the [[Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica|EGC]], death is not necessarily a prerequisite for sainthood, since [[Aleister Crowley]] was certainly alive when he wrote Liber XV (he included himself twice, in fact). The Gnostic Saints are generally considered to those who have embodied the essential principles of Thelema and formed a line of [[adept]]s through the ages.

The only Gnostic Saint to have been officially added to the original list is [[William Blake]], based on a discovered writing by [[Aleister Crowley]] who described him as such. It is also considered approprate to include the name of deceased Grand Masters of [[OTO]], such as [[Hymenaeus Alpha]].

From [[Liber XV]], the entire Collect is written below. Those names in italics are commemorated in ordinary masses, whereas the entire list is entoned for a "celebratory mass," such as when it is performed in conjunction with a [[Wedding]]. 

==Collect V: The Saints==

"LORD of Life and Joy, that art the might of man, that art the essence of every true god that is upon the surface of the Earth, continuing  knowledge from generation unto generation, thou adored of us upon  heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves, openly in the marketplaces  and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples of gold and  ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily  commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest they  glory unto men,

''[[Lao-tzu]]'', ''[[Siddhartha]]'', [[Krishna]], ''[[Tahuti]]'', [[Mosheh]], ''[[Dionysus]]'', ''[[Mohammed]]'', ''[[To Mega Therion]]'', [[Hermes]], ''[[Pan]]'', [[Priapus]], [[Osiris]], [[Melchizedek]], [[Khem]], [[Amoun]], ''[[Mentu]]'', ''[[Heracles]]'', [[Orpheus]], [[Odysseus]], [[Vergilius]], ''[[Catullus]]'', [[Martialis]], ''[[Rabelais]]'', ''[[Swinburne]]'', ''[[Apollonius Tyanæus]]'', [[Simon  Magus]], [[Manes]], ''[[Pythagoras]]'', [[Basilides]], [[Valentinus]], ''[[Bardesanes]]'', ''[[Hippolytus]]'', [[Merlin]], [[Arthur]], [[Kamuret]], [[Parzival]], [[Carolus  Magnus]], [[William of Schyren]], [[Frederick of Hohenstaufen]], [[Roger Bacon]], ''[[Jacobus Burgundus Molensis|Jacobus Burgundus Molensis the Martyr]]'', ''[[Christian Rosencreutz]]'', [[Ulrich  von Hutten]], [[Paracelsus]], [[Michael Maier]], ''[[Roderic Borgia|Roderic Borgia Pope Alexander the Sixth]]'', [[ Jacob Boehme]], [[Francis Bacon|Francis Bacon Lord Verulam]], [[Andrea]], [[Robertus de Fluctibus]], [[Johannes Dee]], ''[[Edward Kelly|Sir Edward Kelly]]'', [[Thomas  Vaughan]], [[Elias Ashmole]], [[Molinos]], [[Adam Weishaupt]], [[Wolfgang von Goethe]], [[William Blake]], [[Ludovicus Rex Bavariae]], [[Richard Wagner]], ''[[Alphonse Louis Constant]]'', [[Friedrich  Nietzsche]], [[Hargrave Jennings]], [[Carl Kellner]], [[Forlong dux]], [[Richard  Payne Knight|Sir Richard  Payne Knight]], [[Paul Gaugin]], [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Francis Burton]], [[Gerard Encausse|Doctor Gerard Encausse]], [[Theodor Reuss|Doctor Theodor Reuss]], ''[[Aleister Crowley|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!"


==Relevant Links==

[http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/saints.html The Invisible Basilica: Saints of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica]

[http://www.scarletwoman.org/docs/docs_mass.html Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass]