We congratulate
Rev. JAN ISAK VALENTIN BEN ABRAM SAETHER
on behalf of the Ecclesia Gnostica Norvegia
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| The Good Shepherd, The Catacombs of St. Domitilla, Rome |
On the occasion of this celebration, the second Sunday of Advent, we re-publish the Hymn of Remembrance, which was written for the original occasion in 1989, with the permission of the author, Jan Valentin Saether. You may download a facsimile of the original here.
HYMN
Of
REMEMBERANCE
Souvenir
Ordination
to the Priesthood in the Ecclesia Gnostica
of
Rev. Jan I. Saether
the Rt. Rev. Stephan A. Hoeller
Ordaining Bishop
INRI
God does not belong to history
the soul’s
journey towards the Light,
belongs to
a quest all unto itself.
the wedding
that happens hence
changes
natural water
into
spiritual wine.
Such is the
bridegroom’s power
such is the
bridegroom’s love.
Hear all
you lovers,
do not
misunderstand,
Great Life
is a river and four springs feed it;
Grace,
Love, Mercy and Foreknowledge.
This river,
this Holy river cannot be stopped.
Beasts and
men build no dams
in this
River.
Their
rivers and dams themselves
Float down
the Great River.
Civilizations
rush down the Holy River.
History
itself is like a little tree
In her
swelling Holy Stream.
God dooes not belong to history,
nor does
the unknown Father-being
reflect
himself in it.
History
does not unfold.
as we are
prone to hope and believe,
rather – it
infolds,
collapses
in on its own victories
until there
is no more spiritual freedom anywhere.
Then people
go mad and destroy
Their
foundations
Wars have
long since ceased to be over land and nations
– that is just what rulers want you to
believe.
Since
Babylon wars have been over laws.
Those who
win rule over the law.
These are
the Rulers.
They are
appointed
by our
selfhatred
for only
those gathered in hatred
and
suspicion of God’s love
are in need
of leaders.
God is not
a ruler.
God is not
a leader.
God is not
a fear.
In the childhood of civilization
men-kings
made themselves into gods
and
legislated their own worship.
In time
they came to rule over life,
over law
and calendar.
All our
days were ruled.
As soon as
we knew the length
of the
solar year
Rulers
ruled over it.
At first history was the stories
about the
first men-kings.
Then the
idea of history became the hope
of rival
kings,
and hope
itself became exploited
through
their promises.
King versus
king.
God versus
god.
Such was
our childhood here
in this
unique world of sad creation
But in the midst of the error
and our
crimes against Love,
in the
density of forgetfulness,
a Word came
forward from the Silence.
This Word
was not a message to man,
it WAS man.
It was a particular man
as we are
particular men and women
He was born
Jesus,
when he
died he was Jesus Christ
and when he
resurrected he was Christ.
This man
was the firstbegotten
son of the
Great Father-being
He still
lives in those who know themselves
as One.
He came into the Holy Stream
and was his
Father’s essence as a knowledge:
My Kingdom
is not of this world.
Behold this
astonishing man.
He makes
all things new.
He reveals
the greatness,
and sets us
free.
Through him
our suffering is undone.
God came
into the world with him.
His life
revealed
the
darkness of the Error.
For the
erroneous ones nailed him to a cross
and pierced
his Heart.
And
proclaimed him King
As in a
carnival,
when he was
dying.
When the
truth comes all the way
out into
this world it dies
at the
hands of the rulers.
They
thought he was dead.
But he knew
not death
because he
came in the Holy Stream
from the
Fullness,
and he was
a fish to the stream.
His death
was only in a stream within
the Holy
Stream.
The Word is
a living Word.
It does not
remain on a cross
This Word
is a light
a living
light,
see it resurrect
in you
when you
stop waiting for him
in history
or in barren images
that have
become ideas.
God does not belong in history.
God is not
born of our efforts
nor from
our expectations.
the good
news is that his knowledge comes
into the
world in a mystery
that cannot
be held
as the
world holds.
Nor is the
gate to his Father’s mansion closed.
Seek and
you shall be let in.
But when
you ar elet in,
you will be
astonished and you will seek no more
Make not of your seeking a virtue
for such
virtue makes one blind.
Trust and
gain strength
but build
not from faith a stronghold.
Such
fortifications shut the Redeemer our.
He came as
a suffering servant
and yet he
suffered not
for he knew
the Greatness
of what he
revealed.
He brought
the redeeming knowledge
that lies
at the heart
of Trust
For when he
comes to you in Glory
you shall
also know.
Free
yourselves
from the
fetters of this world,
be in it,
but not of
it
and your
bridegroom’s hour shall come
to you.
Be of courage in your dark night.
Rest in
Remembrance
- if you
seek him
you have
already known him.
His word is subtle
Offer
attention to his mystery
for his
Body and Bloood
shall nourish
you.
Watch his
Body break
and watch
his Blood flowing in the wine
In him know the voice of Wisdom.
He endures
all experience
and through
him all things are Real.
Cast the
world into the Wine
and you
shall have
eternal
Life.
Such Life
restores the Wisdom
and She
will green the wasteland
before your
eyes
in the
midst
of your
Remembrance
She came
first
and she
shall come again at last.
Find her
Wisdom
through the
Bridegroom.
He is the
revealer of your Soul.
AMEN
from peace to peace
