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This document has a long history of development, beginning in the 1980s in an effort to trace my own lineages, on my web site now called “ASSEMBLY OF THE
KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM OF SOLOMON-LODGE OF THE SONS & DAUHTERS OF AARON” and revised in 2009, work done by Tau Apiryon in the early 1990s and
additional work by Tau Dositheos, Tau Thomas, Tau Sunce, Tau Samlah, Tau Sir Leonis and myself, done in the first decade of the 21st Century C.E. Much standard
source material has also been repeatedly consulted.
Wisdom of Solomon)
1916 Martin (Archbishop and Patriarch of the Free Protestant Church of England)/Benjamin
Charles Harris
11/17/1944 Harris (Bishop of Essex)/Charles Leslie Saul
1/8/1950 Saul (Mar Leofric, Archbishop of Suthronia)/Thomas Tollenaar
4/4/1951 Tollenaar (Old Catholic Bishop of Arnhem)/Joseph Marie Thiesen (Mar Justinos)
1/24/1954 Thiesen/Johann Maria Bloom Van Assendelft-Altland
1958 Van Assendelft-Altland (Mar Joannes Maria, Archbishop of the Ancient Catholic Church of
France, Prince Patriarch of the Primitive Catholic and Apostolic Church of Orthodox
Antioch, Syro-Byzantine Rite)/Christopher C. J. Stanley
6/21/1064 Stanley/Francis H. Roebke
1965 Roebke/Forest E. Gregory Barber
6/16/1979 Barber/Michael Paul Bertiaux (Tau Ogdoade Orfeo IV, Patriarch of the Ecclesia Gnostica
Spiritualis)
9/21/1986 Bertiaux/Allen Henry Greenfield (Tau Sir Hasirim, Assembly of the Knowledge and
Wisdom of Solomon)
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Chaldean-Uniate
1917 Mgr. Emmanuel Thomas II (Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldean Uniate
Church)/Antonio Lebferne
5/4/1925 Lebferne/Arthur Wolfort Brooks
9/16/1934 Brooks (Mar John Emmanuel, head of the Apostolic Episcopal Church)
/Charles W. Keller
4/29/1945 Keller (Mar Carolus, Titular Bishop of Amersbury) /de Willmott Newman
9/25/1953 de Willmott Newman/Richard, Duc de Palatine
1965 de Palatine/Forest E. Gregory Barber
6/16/1979 Barber/Michael P. Bertiaux (Tau Ogdoade Orfeo IV, Patriarch of the Ecclesia
Gnostica Spiritualis)
Bertiaux/Allen Henry Greenfield (Tau Sir Hasirim, Assembly of the
9/21/1986
Knowledge
and Wisdom of Solomon)
1. Metropolitan Heirotheos
2. Theophan Noli (November 21, 1923)
3. Arsenias Saltas (August 25, 1934)
4. Joseph Klymowycz (1935)
5. Andreas Zhurawetzky (October 15, 1950)
6. Metropolitan Nikolaus Ilnyckyj (1978)
7. Yuri (Willaim George Spaeth, Jr) (May 13, 1989)
8. Hermas Apollos (Valdiveso Matthews) (October 30, 1998)
9. Kenneth K. Canterbury
10. Shaun McCann
11. Shawn McCann Consecrated + Thomas Langley December 27, 2007
Calgary, Ontario Canada
12. + Thomas Langley Consecrated + Dositheos (William Coles) July 20
2008 at Woodstock GA
13. + Dositheos Consecrated Tau Sir Hasirim (Allen Greenfield) August
16, 2008 at Arabia Mountain GA
1 Van Steenhoven;
2 Johannes Van Stipout, July 11, 1745;
3 Gaultherus Michael Van Niewenhuizen, February 7,.1768;
4 Adrien Brockman, June 21,.1778;
5 Johannes Jacobus Van Rhijin, July 5,.
6 1787; Gilbertus de Jong, November 7,.1805;
7 Wilibrod Van Os, April 24,.1814;
8 Johannes Bon, April 12,.1819;
9 Johannes Van Santen, November 13,.1825;
10 Hermann Heykamp, July 17,.1864;
11 Casparus Johannes Rinkel, August 11,.1873;
12 Geradus Gul, May 11,.1892 ArchBishop of Utrecht;
13 Michel Kowalski, 1909, Mariavite ArchBishop of Felicinov (Polonia);
14 Marc Fatome, Mariavite Bishop of Nantes, 1938;
15 Monsignor Maas, Regional Bishop of Germany, October 9,.1949;
16 Jean Prevost, French Regional Bishop, August 9,.1953;
17 Robert Bonnet, 1956, Bishop of the American Old Catholic Church
in nome del Primate Americano nella Cattedrale Americana di Parigi;
18 Patrick Truchemotte, July 4,.1970, Primate of the French Gallican
Church;
19 Jaques Bersez, February 26,.1985;
20 Joel Duez, April 1,.1985;
21 Philippe Pissier, October 20,.1993;
22 Massimo Mantovani, June 5,.1998;
23 Phillip Andrew Garver
24 James F. Foster
25 Shaun Patrick McCann
26 Shawn McCann Consecrated + Thomas Langley December 27,
2007 Calgary, Ontario Canada
27 + Thomas Langley Consecrated + Dositheos (William Coles) July
20 2008 at Woodstock GA
28 + Dositheos Consecrated Tau Sir Hasirim (Allen Greenfield) August
16, 2008 at Arabia Mountain GA
1 Alvarez
2 Vilatte
3 Miraglia
4 Houssay
5 Giraud
6 Jean Bricaud
7 Victor Blanchard
8 Roger Menard
9 Robert Ambelain
10 Andre Mauer
11 Roger Pommery
12 Willer Vital-Herne
13 Roger Saint Victor Herard
14 Robert M. Cokinis (Tau Charles Harmonius) 1984
15 James Foster (Tau Iohannes III), July 2002
16 Shaun McCann (Mar Iohannes IV) December 22nd, 2002
17 Shawn McCann Consecrated + Thomas Langley December 27,
2007 Calgary, Ontario Canada
18 + Thomas Langley Consecrated + Dositheos (William Coles) July
20 2008 at Woodstock GA
19 + Dositheos Consecrated Tau Sir Hasirim (Allen Greenfield) August
16, 2008 at Arabia Mountain GA
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i I was consecrated by Tau Silenus, William Gary Keith Breeze in Brooklyn NY on November 19, 1988. I cross
consecrated with Tau Apiryon, David Forrest Scriven in Atlanta GA December 10, 1993. I was reconsecrated by Scriven,
Lynn Scriven (Soror Helena) assisting at the Scriven home in Riverside, California
May 25, 1997.
Allen Greenfield was Elected to the Episcopate by the Holy Synod of the
Neopythagorean Gnostic Church August 21, 1986, He was consecrated by Patriarch
Bertiaux in Chicago IL USA December 4 1993. A statement on spiritual legacy by Rt.
Rev. T Allen Greenfield
Please note that, as Tau Michael Bertiaux has held, since June 16, 1979, all major
independent lines of the traditional apostolic succession through consecration at that time
by Bishop Forest Gregory Barber, all such lines flow to me by virtue of my consecrations
by Bertiaux. Bertiaux, later reconsecrated by Jorge Rodriguez, then also consecrated me. In
line with MY FORMER ASSOCIATES AT OTO's Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, Patriarch
Tau Silenus and Primate Tau Apiryon, I hold that there is a distinction between, on the one
hand, Spiritual Appointment and Consecration in the lineage of Edward Alexander
Crowley (Baphomet XI°) and, on the other, the traditional Apostolic Succession. Both have
their importance and validity.
In my view, and, in having held both, I believe I can render a rather well informed and
detached opinion on this. I held the succession of Baphomet as a Bishop "now and forever"
through Consecration by both the Absolute Grand Patriarch of the Ordo Templi Orientis
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (November 19, 1988 Brooklyn NY). While I am no longer
associated with EGC-OTO, I hold with the Augustinian doctrine "once a bishop-always a
bishop" though I claim -and would have -no authority within OTO as of late July, 2006. As
Tau Silenus recognized me in writing unconditionally as Bishop in writing prior to my
becoming an OTO initiate, I maintain I hold the succession of Baphomet, such as it is.
Others are free to disagree; nobody questions my Full Apostolic Succession, which is what
counts magically.
The "Baphomet descent" doctrine peculiar to the current OTO management was, in my
opinion, a reaction to questions about their own Apostolic Succession, and nothing more, a
silly over reaction typical of them.
I also hold the Latter Day Saints succession through Bishop Conway, and the Doinel
Succession through various consecrations. The Honorary Title of "Rabbi" was recently
also given me by the Fellowship Assembly, which I accept in the sense of being a
"teacher of spirituality" in the Reform Jewish tradition.
I hold also with Tau Michael Bertiaux that "Apostolic Succession" is of value as a
continuation of the most ancient priesthoods of Egypt and Rome through the Christian
communion, and that special mystical powers "objectively" are transferred by consecration
in these lineages. My particular assertion is that this can be objectively verified through
scientific experimentation, similar to that performed in parapsychology with spiritual
healers. The legend of Ormus, the Egyptian Priest converted in apostolic times to
Christianity, and transforming Egyptian Rites into a mode suitable to the Aeon of Osiris is,
at least allegorically, a fair hint of the orderly continuity between ancient Near Eastern
religions and the Christian Succession in the Eastern Churches, making it a suitable vehicle
for continuity in our times. In the Western Churches, the Apostolic Succession existed in
the many currents of the long-enduring state religion of Rome, which can be traced to the
early Roman ruler Numa Pompilius, founder of the College of Pontiffs and the office of
Pontifex Maximus, hundreds of years before Pauline Christianity; passing through the
Roman Imperial State as one with the Emperor as Pontifex Maximus from the time of Julius
Caesar until the Christian Emperor Gratian renounced the title in 379 E.V., apparently in
favor of the Bishop of Rome, Pope Damasus I. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
"The title pontifex was used of Roman Catholic bishops and pontifex maximus of the pope
by the end of the 4th century." The continuity from the most ancient spiritual sources should
be obvious here, and its historical value in continuity for the New Aeon equally valid, all
other considerations and theories aside.
THE EPISCOPATE THROUGH CROSS-COSECRATION WITH
THE MOST REV. DR. +JOE J. PAYYAPILLY
(On April 24, 2010. Tau Sir Hasirim, with the assistance of Tau Dositheos
and Tau Lamed, reconsecrated sub condione, Tau + Sir Leonis, the Most
Rev Joe J. Payyapilly at Kwan Yin Temple, Woodstock GA USA. Tau + Sir
Leonis then reconsecrated sub conditione Tau Dositheos, Tau Lamed,
Yau Ishaviva, Tau Tula, Tau Roger and Tau Sir Hasirim. This was followed
by a reconsecration from each to each in all lineages Gnostic and
Apostolic.)
Fifteenth Class:
90. Supreme Council of the 90th and Last Degree or Absolute Grand
Sovereign, Supreme Power of the Order.
MEMPHIS