Stephan A. Hoeller
Stephan A Hoeller at Besant Lodge, January 2020.

Stephan A. Hoeller
Born
Istvan Hoeller
ReligionNeo-Gnosticism
OrdainedAllegedly by Lowell Paul Wadle on April 9, 1967
Writings
  • The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead
  • Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
  • Jung and the Lost Gospels
  • The Royal Road: A Manual of Kabalistic Meditations on the Tarot
  • Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society
Offices held
Regionary bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica, Professor emeritus of comparative religion at the College of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles, California
TitleProfessor emeritus

Stephan A. Hoeller is an American author, scholar, and neo-Gnostic bishop.[1]

Career

An author and scholar of Gnosticism and Jungian psychology, Hoeller is Regionary Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica.[2]

Hoeller was ordained to the priesthood of the American Catholic Church by Bishop Lowell P. Wadle in 1958. He was consecrated to the Gnostic episcopate by Richard Duc de Palatine on April 9, 1967.[1] Ronald Powell (who took the ecclesiastical name Richard Jean Chretien Duc de Palatine) had established a modern-day Gnostic church, the Pre-Nicene Gnostic Catholic Church, in England during the 1950s - de Palatine received his successions from British independent prelate Hugh de Wilmott-Newman in 1953.[3] After the death of Duc de Palatine in the 1970s, Hoeller abbreviated the church's name, in Latin form, to Ecclesia Gnostica.[4]

Hoeller has lectured in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Hungary, Germany, and the United States. He is a former member of the lecturing faculty of the late Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society, and a national speaker for the Theosophical Society in America. He was a frequent contributor to Gnosis magazine; and has also written for Quest Magazine and for many professional journals. He is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the College of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles, California (now: College of Buddhist Studies).

Partial bibliography

  • The Royal Road: A Manual of Kabalistic Meditations on the Tarot (1975), ISBN 0-8356-0465-9 Second Edition republished as: The Fool's Pilgrimage, Kabbalistic Meditations on the Tarot (2004) ISBN 0-8356-0839-5
  • The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (1982), ISBN 0-8356-0568-X
  • Jung and the Lost Gospels (1989), ISBN 0-8356-0646-5
  • Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society (1992), ISBN 0-8356-0678-3
  • Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (2002), ISBN 0-8356-0816-6

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Quest Books".
  2. ↑ "Ecclesia Gnostica". The Gnosis Archive.
  3. ↑ Hoeller, Stephan. "Wandering Bishops: Not All Roads Lead to Rome". The Gnosis Archive. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  4. ↑ Introduction to the Ecclesia Gnostica
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