The End of Church Structures
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"...in this particular period you will find the awakening of consciousness among the people seeking and searching many spiritual dimensions. How many people have I met who say, “What you are saying I have been looking for, for so long”. Yet in spite of the injustices, even on religious levels, I think the world is much more religious now than ever before. In spite of the fact that people do not go to church. In spite of it all there lies a deep motivating force within the souls of today. People, like the souls under the altar, are saying, “How long dear Lord?” People are spiritually conscious because they are conscious of their spirituality, where previously they went to church but weren’t conscious of their spirituality. So today there is a much greater brewing of spirituality than there has ever been before in history."
Rev Mario Schoenmaker 1982
The Transmission of the Priesthood
In the Western Esoteric Spiritual Tradition, the priest is a mediator between humanity and the divine. The candidates for the priesthood must have a “priest nature”. That is, they are willing to be available to be a servant of Christ and work silently on behalf of the Christ impulse to uplift and transform other souls. In the Free Priesthood the power given to the priest at ordination is added to their vocation, so that their work becomes imbued with new energies.
In September 1996, nineteen people were ordained into this inaugural new expression of the priesthood (The Free Priesthood). Their occupations covered a wide variety of human-interactive fields including medicine, counselling, business, music, law, and a range of therapeutic expressions.
One does not become a Free Priest through self-realisation or self-initiation, but by a transmission of the lineage of Rev Mario Schoenmaker through the laying on of hands. Ordination is into the Order of Melchizedek.
The Free Priest Movement continues to this day to be transmitted. From every walk of life new souls take up the challenge, and are ordained each year.
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