“We worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest thy glory unto men”
The current official version of the Collect “The Saints” from LIBER XV, The Gnostic Mass of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, O.T.O.
It includes names in italics which are to be commemorated in ordinary masses, whereas the entire list is intoned for a „celebratory mass,“ such as when it is performed in conjunction with a Wedding.
Laotze and Siddhartha and Krishna and Tahuti, Mosheh, Dionysus, Mohammed and To Mega Therion, with these also Hermes, Pan, Priapus, Osiris and Melchizedek, Khem and Amoun and Mentu and Heracles, Orpheus, Odysseus, with Vergilius, Catullus, Martialis, Rabelais, Swinburne, and many an holy bard; Apollonius Tyanæus, Simon Magus, Manes, Pythagoras, 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, Roderic Borgia Pope Alexander the Sixth, Jacob Boehme, Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, Andrea, Robertus de Fluctibus, Giordano Bruno[1], Johannes Dee, Sir Edward Kelly, Thomas Vaughan, Elias Ashmole, Molinos, Adam Weishaupt, Wolfgang von Goethe, William Blake[2], Ludovicus Rex Bavariae, Richard Wagner, Alphonse Louis Constant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hargrave Jennings, Forlong dux, Sir Richard Payne Knight, Paul Gauguin, Harry Everett Smith[3], Paschal Beverly Randolph[4], Sir Richard Francis Burton, Doctor Gerard Encausse, Carl Kellner, Doctor Theodor Reuss, Sir Aleister Crowley, Karl Johannes Germer, and Major Grady Louis McMurtry.
[1] February 17, 2000 e.v. in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Bruno’s martyrdom as a heretic.
[2] Added to the list in the Fall of 1997 e.v., based on Crowley’s essay “William Blake”
[3] IHQ News, August 4, 2023 e.v.
[4] IHQ News, November 10, 2024 e.v.