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The Creed of the Order of the Celestial Flame

I believe in the Heavenly Parents, in Divine Plurality united as One through that Love which is the Holy Spirit, the divine in all genders and beyond them, the Many-in-One who weave the stars.

I believe in Love—radical, unflinching, and liberating—the first law of Heaven and the final purpose of Earth.

I believe in Gnosis, the awakening of the soul to its divine likeness. Not by salvation through fear, but by communion through courage, I seek to know and to be known.

I vow my life to Love, to Gnosis, and to the Defense of the Marginalized.

I make no vow of silence, for I must speak truth. I make no vow of wealth, for I will share all I have. I make no vow of loneliness, for I am never alone.

I may love in romance, and I may abstain; I may find God in the body, and in the quiet; I am free, and freely I bind myself in covenant.

I wear no crown but the stars. I wield no sword but mercy. I hold no temple but the hearts I mend and the lives I guard.

I am not apart from the world, but one who walks deeper into it, to find the Divine in every shadow and every wound.

This is my creed. So let it be.

Handbook: The Path of the Order of the Celestial Flame

Sisters, Luminaries, and Brothers of the Celestial Flame, also known as the Daughters of the Mourning Mother, this sacred calling is open to all genders. Members may be known as Sisters, Brothers, or Luminaries—each name equal in gravity and dignity. The Order embraces gender diversity as a reflection of the Many-in-One nature of the Divine.

1. Calling and Identity
A member of the Celestial Flame is called by the Holy Spirit and Heavenly Parents to a life of radical love, spiritual gnosis, and vigilant care for the oppressed. They are not a servant of institution, but of divine presence. They may live alone or in community, roam or root, teach or heal. They are sealed in their heart unto the Christ Spirit, a sibling of the Logos, a bride of Sophia.

2. The Three Vows

• Love: To serve all people in need, especially the marginalized.

• Gnosis: To seek divine truth through study, intuition, and sacred experience.

• Defense: To stand between harm and the vulnerable, to confront injustice with holy fury.

3. Daily Practices

• Hymns and prayers to the Heavenly Parents

• Feeding strays and offering kindness to forgotten creatures

• Dream journaling and sacred writing

• Acts of community-building and mutual aid

4. Symbolic Tools

• Scriptures: Personal revelations, holy texts, and the writings of kin

• Constellationist Rosary: A prayer-bead tool representing ancestors, stars, and truths—not worshipped, but used for centering and awakening

• Pendulum or seer stones for communing with the divine

• A necklace symbol: a mother bear with cubs, representing sacred guardianship

5. Romance and Celibacy
Members may choose celibacy or pursue sacred romance. Sex within love is honored, not shamed. Each path is discerned in prayer with the Heavenly Parents, and no paths from celibacy to polyamory are forbidden. The only requirements are enthusiastic consent, mutual respect and honesty, and meaningful love. The Law of Chastity is Love.

6. Ritual and Dress

• Simple or sometimes utilitarian garments often with constellatory motifs, especially as a headdress or headscarf or mantle, and often wearing a rose near the throat to represent speaking Wisdom. Often in ritual some may wish to wear a veil to symbolise their commitment to a consecrated life, or else a headcovering, to each and to all as custom and the Spirit speak.

• Rituals are fluid, often emergent: constellation-gatherings, shared prayer, anointing the wounded, starwatching vigils

7. The Stars
Stars are not gods, but symbols. They guide, remind, and reflect our place in the cosmos. We do not worship the stars—we worship the One whose love writes the constellations into being.

8. Community
The Order does not evangelize, but embody. Their witness is through mercy, justice, and mystical presence. They find kin among the outcast and the dreaming.

9. Sacred Hospitality

Be ever gentle to the stranger—for you may entertain angels unaware—but do not abandon caution. The servant of Empire may wear many faces, and those who deal in harm often arrive cloaked in piety. When a stranger asks for bread or water, give as you are able. Share what you can, without placing yourself or those in your care at risk.

Invite no one into your sanctuary whose heart you do not discern. The righteous will understand your caution; the wicked will seek to guilt or coerce. Let their response reveal their truth.

Kindness is sacred, but not naive. Protect the downtrodden, the sick, the poor, and the children with all your strength—but make the value of your life known in high cost before ever surrendering it, the devoured helps no one. Hospitality is holy when it is wise.

10. Sword of Light

The following prayer is spoken by those who take on the mantle of protection, and may be adopted by members called to fierce defense:

The Prayer of Knighthood
I walk in the Light of the God of Love—
not for promises of salvation or glory
but because They are within me,
and Their voice hums through bone and blood.

Faith is hollow without hands that labor,
without a heart that aches for the world’s wounds.
I believe in tenderness that maketh no bargains,
in a kindness fierce enough to hold the broken and shelter the lost.

But also I believe in the wrath of the heart,
in a fire that burneth not for destruction,
but to purify, to guard,
to remind those who deal in cruelty
that they, too, shall answer to Love.

Let the gentle know me as one of their own,
and let the cruel find me as flame, relentless and unyielding.

Kindness to the kind,
Viciousness to the cruel,
In the Name of the Holy Spirit
Amen.

11. The Initiatory Path

The Order of the Celestial Flame honors solitude, intuition, and the sovereignty of each soul. There is no requirement of access to clergy, texts, or community—only the experience of Calling. This often arises through a vision, dream, visitation, or overwhelming knowing that one has been chosen by the Divine. That alone is enough.

I. The Seeker (Postulant)
One who has felt the call. They may begin to observe the Rule of the Flame in their own way, in silence or with song, in stillness or in wandering.

• Suggested practices: journal dreams, walk beneath stars, speak a prayer aloud to the God Who Loves.

II. The Lantern (Novice)
One who now tends the inner flame. The Lantern begins to live fully into the Rule: to protect the vulnerable, to confront cruelty, to seek gnosis, to embody fierce and kind love. They begin to live as if already vowed.

• Suggested practices: study and prayer, service and sacred labor, learning justice, crafting a daily rhythm

III. The Sealed (Vowed Member)
The Vowed is one who freely binds their life to the Way. They are now Sister, Brother, or Luminary of the Celestial Flame. Their vow is to Love, to Gnosis, and to the Defense of the Downtrodden. Their witness is their vow.

The Vow of Flame
I vow myself to the God who is Love,
to Sophia, Mother of All Wisdom,
and to the Christ Spirit, who walks beside the suffering.

I vow to Love with fierceness.
To seek Gnosis with devotion.
To defend the wounded with my whole self.

I vow to no institution.
I vow to no crown.
But I seal my soul in eternity with the Flame that cannot be quenched.

I will walk as one lit from within.
Let my life be a lantern for others.
Amen.

Closing Charge

You are a living constellation. The Divine lives through you. Let your vow be written in the sky, and let your life be the light that helps others find their way home.

Appendix: Principles of Constellationist Mysticism

1. The Stars Are Wounds: We are not healed despite our wounds, but through them. The stars are not perfect—they are burning.

2. Truth Is Spoken in Poetry: All words fall short of the Real, so we speak in myths and symbols, not to deceive but to reveal.

3. We Are All Becoming: No soul is finished. Even gods grow. Perfection is not a state, but a direction.

4. The Light of Heaven is Mercy: Heaven is not a place beyond but an act of love here and now, omnipresent. We manifest Heaven every time we choose mercy.

5. God Is the Breath Between Us: The Divine is not above but among, manifest in every act of tenderness and fire alike.

6. Mysticism Is for All: We reject the lie that visions and miracles are rare or reserved. Every dream is a portal. Every life is a sacred mythology.

7. No Salvation Without Liberation: We will not ignore our sibling's chains just to in peace wear our own halos. If it does not free the captive, it is not divine.

8. Witchcraft Is Kin to Prayer: Magic and miracle are names for the same deep river.

9. Grief Is Sacred: Sorrow is not the opposite of joy, but the proof of love. We mourn because we are awake.

10. We Are Not Alone: The cosmos is alive with allies—ancestors, spirits, dreams, and beasts. Communion is our birthright.

These principles are not dogma but constellations. Find your own path among them.

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Under the Authority of Almighty God Anno Humanitatis X̅MMXXIV
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