Forgiveness of Sins
The opening Mystery of forgiveness and purification.
THE MYSTERIES ATTRIBUTED TO JESUS
An inheritance
you can enter.
Forgiveness. Initiation. Empowerment. Ascent.
Discover the rites at the heart of the restoration.
THE INVITATION WITHIN THE TEXTS
What did Jesus
give his disciples?
These ancient writings present Jesus revealing Mysteries for his disciples to receive and perform.
They describe rites of purification, initiatic baptisms, empowerment, liberation, and passage through heavenly realms. They preserve words to speak, sacred names to invoke, seals to trace, and a sequence to follow.
The Books of the Savior brings that material together as a working manual. David Griffin and Leslie McQuade’s reconstruction invites you to examine the rites and explore their place in a living Christian practice.
THE APEX OF THE PATH
Enter the
Treasuries of Light.
Heaven, understood as the dimension within light.
Ascension, entered as a living spiritual practice.
MYSTICAL ASCENSION
A practice for
living disciples.
Ascension is the work toward which the initiations prepare the disciple.
In our practice, the disciple undertakes a guided spiritual ascent through the Twelve Aeons and the Treasuries of Light. Sacred names, seals, ciphers, and invocations provide the operative means of passage preserved in the rites.
We understand the Treasuries as luminous dimensions within light. This is the spiritual cosmology of the ascent: a path toward direct encounter with the divine.
The practice is established through discipline, personal guidance, and correction. The disciple enters the work, records the experience, and returns to practice.
THE FOUNDATION FOR ASCENT
Five initiations.
Empowerment to enter.
The initiations are administered as a sequence, preparing the disciple for the ascension practice.
Baptism of Living Water
The first of the three initiatic baptisms.
Baptism of Fire
The second baptism in the disciple’s preparation.
Baptism of Holy Spirit
The third baptism, completing the baptismal sequence.
Liberation
The Mystery of removing the malice of the Archons, preparing the disciple for ascent.
EXOUSIA · EMPOWERMENT & AUTHORITY
Initiated.
Empowered.
Sent forth.
The manuscripts present the rites as transmitting empowerment as well as authority.
Jesus gives his disciples the Mysteries and commissions them to administer the work to others. This is the understanding of exousia at the heart of our practice: disciples receive the Mysteries and are empowered to carry the work forward.
The Church’s apostolic successions support the episcopal authority to administer and restore these rites. The empowerment received through the Mysteries belongs to the disciple’s own initiatic path.
The apostolic successions supporting our work ↗THE OPERATIVE MANUAL
From surviving rites
to a complete practice.
The reconstruction brings the initiations and ascent together for practical use.
The Books of the Savior contains the ritual requirements, spoken formulas, sacred names, seals, and ciphers needed to work the sequence. It also provides pronunciation guidance for consistent ceremonial use.
The restored path is being practiced in the Disciple’s Path working circle, where the initiations are administered and ascension is personally supervised.
About the surviving sources and the concluding rite
The reconstruction draws on the Books of Jeu and related rites in Pistis Sophia. These are the surviving sources from which the operative sequence has been restored.
The manual identifies the concluding Mystery of At-one-ment with the Father as a contemporary liturgical composition by David Griffin. It completes the experiential arc of the living practice and is distinguished explicitly from the reconstructed ancient material.
G. R. S. Mead’s translations and discussions of the Askew and Bruce materials are an essential part of this exploration. His work draws attention to inherited material within the surviving compilations. The ritual material’s earlier history remains a question for study.
A SHARED CHRISTIAN INHERITANCE
Every Christian.
Every denomination.
These Mysteries belong to the spiritual inheritance of every Christian.
Our mission is to assist in their restoration and transmission. No single church, ministry, or denomination owns this inheritance.
You may participate while remaining in your own church. The path does not require a change of denomination.
THE DISCIPLE’S PATH
Enter the work.
Live the path.
Five initiations and personally supervised ascension practice.
Discover the Disciple’s Path ↗THE RAPTURE & THE MYSTERIES OF ASCENT
“Caught up.”
Into what?
Could the Rapture be a lost Christian Mystery of ascent?
In 2 Corinthians 12:2–4, Paul describes an experience of being caught up to the third heaven and Paradise. In 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17, he describes a future collective rising associated with the Lord’s coming and the resurrection of the dead.
Both passages use forms of the Greek verb harpazō—to seize or catch up. That shared language invites comparison between the expectation of ascent and the experience of it.
Our question brings those passages into conversation with the ascent Mysteries preserved in the ancient ritual writings. It is an invitation to explore a possible connection; it does not establish that Paul was describing these particular rites.
The living question for the seeker is what place initiation and mystical experience might have within their own Christian life.
BEGIN WITH THE BOOK
Your inheritance.
Open to you.
Receive The Books of the Savior as our gift.
Discover the Mysteries. Consider the invitation.
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