The Thelemic Mass - Sons of the Lion & the Snake
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(Paired with the list of honored holy women of the adjacent thread, here is the Lion-Serpent collect referencing honored holy men. The full list is longer, but this is the list that would be routinely read at most masses.)
Lord of Life and Joy, that art the might of humanity, 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 thy GLORY unto the world:
Krishna, Thoth, Mosheh, Lao-tze, Gautama, Dionysus, Mohammed, and To Mega Therion. With these also: Hermes, Chiram, Horus, and Melchizedek; Apollonius of Tyana, Bardaisan, and Hippolytus that transmitted the Light of the Gnosis to us their successors and heirs; Dante, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci; Raymond Lully, Nicholas Flamel, Robert Fludd, and Paracelsus who labored in the Work of the Sun; Prince Rakoczy le Comte de St. Germain, Dr. John Dee, “Christian Rosencreutz,” Michael Maier, and Thomas Vaughan who upraised the Rosy Cross; Giordano Bruno, Miguel de Molinos, Richard Maurice Bucke, and Swami Vivekananda; Dr. Paul Foster Case, Dr. Israel Regardie, Dr. William Wynn Westcott, George Cecil Jones, Edward Alexander Crowley, and Karl Johannes Germer –
O Sons of the Lion and the Snake! 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!