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Fragments of the Pleroma

The Gnostic, Martinist, and Hermetic Traditions of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma by Tau Phosphoros

Fragments of the Pleroma offers the first comprehensive introduction to the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma (ACP) and the three sacred traditions that converge within it: classical and modern Gnosticism, the Martinist path of Christian mysticism and theurgy, and the Hermetic initiatic tradition as preserved in the Order of Asiatic Architects. Written by Tau Phosphoros, Patriarch and founder of the ACP, this volume is designed to serve the serious seeker who stands at the threshold of engagement with the Gnostic tradition - beyond the merely curious, not yet within the formal formation program, and looking for a work that respects both their intelligence and the integrity of the tradition itself. Fragments of the Pleroma will be of interest to members and clergy of Gnostic churches and esoteric orders, students of the Western Mystery Tradition, and scholars of modern Gnosticism, Martinism, and esoteric Freemasonry.

$17 / £13

ACP Clergy Handbook

Full Color Hardcover Edition $75 / £57

The ACP Clergy Handbook is the foundational instructional text of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma — a living Gnostic and Apostolic jurisdiction rooted in the sacramental traditions of Christ and the ancient teachings of the Holy Gnosis. Now in its Fourth Edition, this comprehensive volume serves simultaneously as a formation guide for Minor Order ordinands and as a reference and ritual tool for all levels of clergy. The theoretical portion provides a thorough grounding in Gnostic philosophy and mythology: the nature of the Unknown Father, the generation of the Aeons, the fall of Sophia, the rise of the Demiurge, and the redemptive mission of the Logos. To this doctrinal foundation is joined an annotated presentation of The Kybalion, with commentary by Tau Phosphoros illuminating its relevance to Gnostic doctrine and ACP practice. The seven Sacraments of the ACP are examined in depth, with particular attention given to the theology of the Eucharist, the central rite of the Church, and its relationship to valid Apostolic Succession. The practical sections cover the ACP's liturgical life in detail, including the Mass of the Seven Seals and the Liturgy of St. Peter the Gnostic, the administration of the Sacraments, the ordering of the Sanctuary, instruction in meditative and theurgic exercises, and the alchemical dimensions of the spiritual life. A substantially revised Brief History of the Gnostic Church traces the tradition from its ancient roots through the modern French Gnostic revival and the lineages that have descended to the ACP.

Color Paperback $55 / £42

Black & White Paperback $40 / £32

ACP Lectionary for Mass

Liturgies & Full-Text Readings for Years A, B, & C 

The Apostolic Church of the Pleroma Lectionary for Mass provides the complete cycle of scriptural readings for Sunday Mass and the Major Feast Days of the ACP liturgical year. Compiled and arranged by Tau Phosphoros, Patriarch of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma, this volume is the companion to the ACP Clergy Handbook and is designed to serve as a self-contained resource for the celebration of the Eucharist.
The Lectionary is organized according to the standard three-year cycle of the Western Church — Years A, B, and C — with each year ordered through the full liturgical calendar: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and the Season After Pentecost. Year A centers on the Gospel of Matthew, Year B on Mark, and Year C on Luke, with readings from the Gospel of John woven throughout all three years. The New Testament readings are synchronized with those of the broader Apostolic Church in the West, an arrangement that unites the ACP's liturgical practice with the wider egregore of the Universal Church while preserving the distinctive doctrinal perspective of the Gnostic tradition.
Preceding the lectionary proper, the volume includes the complete text of the Holy Gnostic Liturgy of the Pleromic Light — the central rite of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma — making it possible to conduct a full Eucharistic celebration with a single volume at hand. Within this liturgy the reader will find expressed the highest principles of the Hermetic and Qabalistic traditions, together with the most sublime formulas of alchemical and theurgic operation, all reconciled in and through the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Hardcover $70 / £55

Paperback $55 / £42

The Pleromic Light Unveiled
by Tau Phosphoros

Tau Phosphoros, archbishop and Patriarch of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma, examines in detail the principal liturgy of the ACP. This is both a practical manual and theoretical exegesis, giving detailed instruction for the celebration of the liturgy as well as delving into the philosophical, theological, and occult bases of this ceremony, described by Tau Phosphoros as a rite of High Theurgy. While intended primarily for ACP clergy, this work will be appreciated by all ecclesiastical Gnostics, Liberal Catholics, and those of the Independent Sacramental Movement who are looking to study the esoteric foundation of the Eucharistic Mass.

$13 / £11

Light Beyond Shadows by Tau Phosphoros & Tau Bruno II

Light Beyond Shadows is a compilation of homilies delivered by Tau Phosphoros and Tau Bruno II to the Parish of St. Ambelain from 2014 to 2018. These homilies cover significant liturgical events and themes within the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma (ACP), a Gnostic Christian tradition. Overall, this work emphasizes the balance between tradition and new revelation, the transformative power of the Holy Spirit, the importance of initiation and guided instruction, and the central role of Love and Gnosis in the Christian faith.

$30 / £23

The Gnosis Restored: Essays from the Masters of the French Gnostic Renaissance

A landmark anthology of some the seminal texts that ignited the modern Gnostic revival. The Gnosis Restored gathers, for the first time in English, foundational writings of Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel du Val-Michel and his successors-Papus, Léonce-Eugène-Joseph Fabre des Essarts, Marie Chauvel de Chauvigny, Louis-Sophrone Fugairon, and Jean "Joanny" Bricaud.
Meticulously translated and introduced, this collection is an indispensable resource for scholars, initiates, and seekers drawn to the living current of Gnostic, Martinist, and esoteric Masonic traditions.

$30 / £25

Catechism of the Église Gnostique Explained
by Tau Sophronius

Drawing from the Pistis Sophia, the Bruce Codex, Valentinian and Basilidean traditions, Cathar mythos, and the esoteric Catholicism of the era, the work presents a sweeping vision of the divine, pneumatic, and hylic worlds; the hierarchies of the Pleroma; the fall and redemption of the soul; and the sacramental mysteries that guide the initiate toward liberation. At once mystical, speculative, devotional, and idiosyncratic, it reveals both the brilliance and the contradictions of early modern Gnostic thought.

$25 / £19

Liturgical Prayers
by Abbé Julio

This is the second volume of the 3-part work of the influential French priest-healer of fin-de-siècle, Abbé Julio. This work contains many rare prayers, litanies, and novenas, as well as the full liturgical calendar of both the Roman Church and of Abbé Julio's Église Catholique Française, inherited from the famous French-American bishop Joseph-René Vilatte. As with the first volume, the prayers, novenas, healing operations, etc. for every possible case are well indexed. Also included are the prayers of the Mass in English and Latin, special masses, marriage and funerary rites, etc., etc.

$60 / £45

The Secret Book of Grand Exorcisms and Benedictions
by Abbé Julio

The Secret Book of Grand Exorcisms and Benedictions is the culminating volume in Abbé Julio's sacred trilogy-a liturgical and mystical treasury restored for the modern age. Following Grand Marvelous Secrets and Liturgical Prayers, this third tome gathers the full flowering of spiritual authority: prayers, benedictions, and exorcisms that channel divine grace, confront affliction, and sanctify the visible and invisible alike.

$65 / £50

Levitikon

An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of the Doctrine of the Primitive Catholic Christians
by Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat

Published in Paris in 1831, Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat's Levitikon is one of the most remarkable and consequential documents in the history of esoteric Christianity. At once an ecclesiastical constitution, a levitical rule, a liturgical handbook, a Gnostic Gospel, and a historical argument, it served as the foundational text of the Johannite Church of Primitive Christians - the institution through which Fabré-Palaprat, physician, former priest, and self-proclaimed Grand Master of a restored Order of the Knights Templar, sought to instantiate a vision of Christianity older, purer, and more philosophically coherent than anything Rome could offer. The present translation is the first complete scholarly rendering of the 1831 Paris edition, including all supplementary texts, the Table of Principal Subjects, and the Extract from the Supplement. This edition will be an indispensable resource for scholars of nineteenth-century French religious history, Gnosticism, Martinism, esoteric Freemasonry, and the independent sacramental movement, as well as for practitioners within Johannite, Gnostic, and neo-Templar traditions for whom the Levitikon is not merely an historical curiosity but the charter of a living spiritual inheritance.

$40 / £30

Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings by Martinès de Pasqually

This is the principal work of the founder of the Elus Coens. Written by Pasqually cir. 1772 for private dissemination among his "emulators," this work was only published in full over 125 years after his death. This peculiar biblical exegesis has both fascinated and frustrated students and researchers for years, because of Pasqually's often poor mastery of the French language (which seems not to have been his native tongue) and his unique jargon. It is strongly recommended that the student of this work procure also the work of Le Forestier, as it is of invaluable aid in the deciphering of Pasqually's doctrine.

$27 / £21

Occultist Freemasonry in the 18th Century and the Order of Elus Coens by René Le Forestier

This classic tome is considered by many to be the definitive analysis of one of the most mysterious and enigmatic, yet one of the most influential orders of esoteric Freemasonry. Le Forestier carefully examines the doctrine, rituals, and history of this theurgical order par excellence of the 18th century. This will be of particular interest not only to every student of Martinism, but also to the students of the early development of the so-called Scottish degrees in France.

$50 / £38

Martinès de Pasqually: His life, his magical practices, his work, his disciples by Papus

This seminal work by Papus looks at the life and teachings of the founder of the Élus Coens through examinations of the personal correspondence of the master with his disciples, whom he calls "emulators." This volume makes an excellent companion to the work of Le Forestier, containing much of the source material upon which the latter relies. Papus includes as an appendix some of the catechisms of the Élus Coens, which further elucidate Pasqually's doctrine of reintegration.

$20 / £15.50

A Mystic of Lyon: Jean-Baptiste Willermoz & the Secrets of Freemasonry
by Alice Joly

First published in France in 1938 and never previously translated into English, Alice Joly's Un mystique lyonnais et les secrets de la Franc-Maçonnerie (1730-1824) is the foundational scholarly biography of Jean-Baptiste Willermoz - the Lyon merchant, mystic, and Masonic reformer whose influence on the initiatic Freemasonry of the eighteenth century was as profound as it was far-reaching.

Essential reading for initiates and scholars of the Rectified Scottish Rite, the Chevaliers Bienfaisants de la Cité Sainte, the Martinist and Coën traditions, and the history of Western esotericism.

$40 / £30

Episodes of the Esoteric Life, 1780-1824: Selections from the Unpublished Correspondence of J.-B. Willermoz, Prince Charles de Hesse-Cassel, and Some of Their Contemporaries by Gérard van Rijnberk

In the final decades of the eighteenth century and the opening years of the nineteenth, a remarkable circle of men - high-grade Masons, Martinist initiates, mystics, and princes - conducted an extraordinary correspondence on the deepest questions of esoteric life. Episodes of the Esoteric Life, 1780-1824 gathers the most significant of those letters, most of them previously unpublished, and presents them with the commentary of a scholar who was himself an initiate of the tradition he was documenting.

$35 / £26

A New Historical Notice on Martinèsism and Martinism by Albéric Thomas

First published in Paris in December 1899 as No. 5 in the Second Series of the Bibliothèque Rosicrucienne - the imprint of the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix - this volume appeared at the height of the French esoteric revival and amid vigorous controversy over the origins and nature of the tradition now known as Martinism. Its principal author, Alexandre-Albéric Thomas (Tau Marnès), was a bishop of the Gnostic Church, a Supérieur Inconnu of the Ordre Martiniste, active secretary of the Grande Loge Misraïmite, and secretary of the journal La Gnose. Working from primary archives never previously subjected to systematic scholarly scrutiny - the Villaréal archives of the Ordre des Élus-Coëns, the records of the Philalèthes, and documents in private hands - Thomas produced a work of meticulous historical scholarship that remains the foundational study of its subject.

$20 / £15

The Baylot Manuscript in Translation: BnF FM4 15

Tranlated, Annotated, & Introduced by Tau Phosphoros

This revised and expanded second edition of The Baylot Manuscript in Translation features full-color reproductions of all 77 folios of the original manuscript - BnF FM4 15, held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France - making the primary source directly accessible to readers for the first time. The translation has been thoroughly revised and corrected through systematic comparison with the original, with nearly 70 new annotations added to the original corpus of 296 endnotes, now converted to footnotes for ease of reference. New discoveries made during the editorial process - including previously unrecorded interlinear glosses, marginalia, and text absent from all prior transcriptions - are documented throughout. Drafted between the early 1750s and the late 1760s and bearing a final date of 1768, this codex of over thirty unique ritual pieces across more than seventy folios was assembled by and/or for Martinès de Pasqually, founder of the influential Ordre des Chevaliers Maçons Élus Coëns de l'Univers. The manuscript is primarily a compendium of early Scottish or écossais grades that would later form the core of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, including grades found in no other known manuscript collection. Predating the Francken Manuscript by at least fifteen years, it preserves ritual forms already lost to standardization by the time the Rite of Perfection reached maturity.

$60 / £45

Degrees of Wisdom

A Compendium of Rituals from the
Rites of Memphis and Misraïm

The Egyptian Rites of Memphis-Misraïm represent a fascinating yet often overlooked dimension of Western esoteric and Masonic traditions. This volume presents a carefully prepared English translation of rare French ritual texts, offering insights into a system that integrates Hermetic, Neoplatonic, and Kabbalistic influences within a unique initiatic framework. Rather than adhering to conventional Masonic structures, the Egyptian Rites emphasize symbolic depth and spiritual transformation, appealing to those drawn to esoteric study. Included in this work are degrees and variations previously inaccessible to English-speaking audiences, many of which diverge significantly from widely known versions. The translations have been carefully crafted to preserve the integrity of their original meaning while addressing inconsistencies in earlier materials. This effort ensures that initiates, scholars, and ritual practitioners alike will find both historical authenticity and practical utility in its contents. This edition does not attempt to impose a singular interpretation of the Egyptian Rites but rather provides a thoughtful arrangement of grades to facilitate deeper engagement with their themes and teachings. Beyond its role as a reference for historians of esotericism and Freemasonry, this book serves as a valuable resource for those actively engaged in the Egyptian Rite's ongoing practice. It invites readers to explore not just the written rituals, but the deeper wisdom they contain - an invitation to contemplation, study, and personal transformation within the Masonic mysteries.

Hardcover $75 / £57

Paperback $55.50 / £42

Masonic Orthodoxy: Followed by Occult Masonry and Hermetic Initiation by Jean-Marie Ragon

This classic tome on Masonic history and doctrine is available in English for the first time since its publication in 1853. This important work is often referenced by Masonic historians. Indeed, most English-speaking Masonic enthusiasts are familiar with the name of Ragon, but very few have read his principal work. Every student of Masonic and para-Masonic organizations will want this volume on their shelves.

$45 / £34

Philosophical and Interpretive Course on the Initiations, Ancient & Modern by Jean-Marie Ragon

Jean-Marie Ragon de Bettignies (1781-1862) - called by his contemporaries "the most learned Freemason of the nineteenth century" - delivered his Philosophical and Interpretive Course on the Initiations, Ancient and Modern as a series of lectures before the Lodge of the Trinosophes in Paris in 1818-19, repeated at the lodge's request in 1838-39, and published in 1841 with the authorization of the Grand Orient of France. Now available in English for the first time, this landmark work presents Ragon's systematic interpretation of the degrees of Freemasonry in the light of the ancient mysteries, Pythagorean number-mysticism, and the solar-astronomical philosophy of the antique sages.

$40 / £30

History of the Foundation of the Grand Orient of France by Claude-Antoine Thory

First published in Paris in 1812, Claude-Antoine Thory's Annales Originis Magni Galliarum Orientis is the foundational history of the Grand Orient of France - and one of the rarest books in Masonic literature. Written by a librarian to the Mother Lodge of the Philosophic Scottish Rite with unparalleled access to the archives and documents of his age, it chronicles the schism of 1772 that produced the Grand Orient, the decades of rivalry and revolutionary turbulence that followed, and the hard-won consolidation that shaped French Freemasonry into the nineteenth century.

$40 / £30

Exegesis of the Soul: Three Treatises on the Nature, Origin, & Destiny of the Human Soul

This special compilation collects three previously untranslated works by Papus: - The Human Soul Before Birth and After Death (1898) is a fascinating exegesis on the Amélineau translation of the Pistis Sophia. - How Is the Human Being Constituted? (1900) offers a thorough summary of the constituent parts of the human being: body, soul, and spirit, examining the unique function of each and how they work together to form a cohesive whole. - What Becomes of Our Dead (1914), written in the midst of the horrors of the First World War, makes a contemplative analysis of the faculties and evolution of the human soul.

$13.50 / £10.50

Other Titles of Interest

These works are recommended for all ACP clergy.

Spirit Builders, Vol. 1

+PALAMAS has merged together the two worlds of the Voudon Gnostic inspired points-chauds empowerments with the degrees of the Rites of Memphis & Misraïm in an innovative and unique system that is fully workable and expresses the living tradition that stems from Arabia Mountain.

$65 / £45

Spirit Builders, Vol. 2

In this newly edited and annotated, two-volume 10-year anniversary edition, the student of the mysteries will discover further explorations into the Rites of Memphis+Misraïm, learn how to utilize the Tracing Boards of each degree as eidetic pylons for scrying, and expand the overall work.

$65 / £45

Syzygy: Reflections on the Monastery of the Seven Rays

The two worlds of Voudon and Gnosis merge within the unique expression of a religious community called the Monastery of the Seven Rays.

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Lux Occulta

LUX OCCULTA: The Theology & Ritual of a Spiritist Chapter of Martinism & Martinèsism with Operations from Pasqually’s original Élus Coën is an intimate look into the workings of an esoteric order chartered by none other than the avant-garde mystic and mage, Michael-Paul Bertiaux.

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Sympatheia: Liturgical Guide to Esoteric Stoicism

Sympatheia is a genre defying, paradigm shifting contribution to the world of Stoic philosophy. Ambitious in scope, yet essentially practical, this is the first text to approach Stoicism as an esoteric school of philosophy...

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The Homeromanteion

As the Stoics promoted the practice of divination, and universally attested to its purpose in a providentially ordered and sympathetically related cosmos, this book suggests the relevance of the Homeromanteion...to the contemporary Stoic...

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