Gnostic Guardian Church of Grace and Blessing
During the late 1970s and the 1980s the Guardians under Michael Freedman became more magical. Many if not all the earlier Guardian ceremonies, which were gnostic and esoteric Christian in nature, were no longer performed in favour of the Guardians having a more magical emphasis.
In order to preserve and resurrect these ceremonies and the strong Gnostic Christian Rosicrucian mystical tradition, that was lost under Michael Freedman, but found within its ceremonies., Leonard Stevens along with Bishop Timothy Storlie formed the Guardian Church during the Feast of Virgo 2003. at the same time (2003) Frater Carfax was appointed Imperator of the Guardians. The Guardian Church for a time existed within the Sovereign Illuminated Order of the Rose Croix an Rosicrucian society descended from Roger Caro's 'Freres Aines De La Rose Croix'; that Stevens received paper charter for in 2003 and which continued to grow through multiple Caro and Toussaint currents existing within the Guardians through Stevens and Word. Stevens was made a Knight of the 'Freres Aines De La Rose Croix' in Belgium by Philip de Coster. De Coster being the Archbishop of the Guardian Gnostic Church since the resignation of Bishop Timothy Storlie. Jean de Cabalis joined egregores with Dr Robert Word, a holder of several Temple of Adjunta and OSFAR+C / ENA lines separate from de Coster. The Sovereign Illuminated Order of the Rose Croix, ceased to be a separate Order to the Guardians in 2011, merging completely within the Et Custosi Tutelae under the agreement of Stevens and Word. All the religious ceremonies of the Guardians, ceased by Michael Freedman, have been re-enacted within the Guardians under the leadership of Stevens. Another smaller tradition; the sacred mysteries of the Abbess being preserved through the Australian branch of the Society primarily under the care of Frater Carfax at this time.
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