Deacon ordained and new Bishop consecrated in the Ecclessia Apostolica Rosae Rubeae & Aureae Crucis

May 2015

The Most Rev. Dr Bertil Persson

Bertil Persson and Rev. Siodhachan Lyden (Tau Thomas) at St. Leo's in NYC

Sweden's Professor Bertil Persson is one of the Chaplains to the Swedish Royal family and has very close links with the Vatican.  He is an ordained minister of the Anglican Communion and has presided as Bishop over the Holy Eastern Catholic Church, Primate of the Apostolic Orthodox churches and as a Missionary Arch Bishop for the African Orthodox Church.  He has served as the Missionary General of Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church for Scandinavia and as Missionary General of the Philippine Independent Catholic Church for Scandinavia and all of Europe. In 2012 his book The Fight Against Sects was released, documenting his decades of work to achieve world peace and to educate authorities on the existence as well as the practices of cults and dangerous fundamentalist sects.  He's authored numerous titles on the various histories of independent Catholic and Orthodox churches as well as Independent Bishops: An International Directory with a preface by the well known encyclopedic authority of world religions, J. Gordon Melton.

With the assistance of Archbishop George Boyer and Bishop Leila Boyer, Bertil established the Caribbean Episcopal Church, originally as a church in the Apostolic Episcopal Church, whose Universal Primate he was at that time.  Later the Bishop of London of the Church of England took over the responsibility after the decease of its first Archbishop Eugene Lynch.
Dr. Persson has served for some 30 years as a pedagogue of dyslexia and Ambassador of Peace connected to UNESCO (International Association of Education and World Peace; University for Peace) and ECOSOC (Universal Peace Federation).  He's a talented hymnologist and academic historian of churches and ideas.  He travels around the world speaking at Universities on the subject of Aramaic and its importance to linguistics, religious studies and cultural anthropology as the language of Jesus. He has served as a consultant of Scandinavia for Near East Churches and is the author of several text books in religion.  

Professor Persson earned a Doctorate of Theology and has spent 40 years of research in Sweden and abroad.  Having served the Swedish Government and foreign organizations as an expert in international Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue, his works of humanitarian, pedagogical and religious-historical achievement and for his work as a scientific author he has been awarded a number of honorable doctorates and distinctions, including Top 100 Educators 2005, Top 100 Educators 2006 and Top 100 Educators 2008 awarded by Cambridge Biographical Centre, England. Nils Bertil Alexander Persson has traced the Rosicrucian movement back to a beginning in 1188 which predates the publishing of the Fama in 1614.  This research was enabled by his access to secret files in the Library of the Vatican and other private collections throughout Europe, especially the files of the Order of the Knights Templar in Germany. 

I spent some time with Arch Bishop Persson in Manhattan at St Leo's and ventured uptown to give a homily at the African Orthodox Church in Harlem. Afterwards, we had lunch on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and spoke at length regarding his research in the Vatican archives and some mutual acquaintances in the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.  He had this to say regarding the Boyers, the United Templar Rite and the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia as well as the Apostolic Church of the Golden and Rosy Cross: 

"Last time I met Beloved Leila was on the 9th of December in the House of Lords in London. I was invited to lecture and I had invited her. We had a longtime chat both before and after my lecture. We decided that when I'm back in London in the mid' of May we share a dinner together as so many times in the past. At that time she told me that she has problem with cancer but it was at the moment better. 

Bishop Leila has for many years been my assistant in my work for the Caribbean people. Archbishop George Boyer and I, assisted by Bishop Leila, established the Caribbean Episcopal Church, originally as a church in the Apostolic Episcopal Church, whose Universal Primate I was at that time. Later the Bishop of London of the Church of England took over the responsibility after the decease of its first Archbishop Eugene Lynch.  Once again I thank you ever so much for the message I've got through Archbishop Peter Paul Brennan, my successor as Universal Primate of Order of Corporate Reunion.

Both +George and +Leila were very active in OCR in the British Isles. Through me they were also installed as Knights of the Knights Templar Order by its Spiritual Protector Archbishop Lutfi Laham of the Holy Land, Patriarch of the Melchite-Greek Catholic Church.  Richard Duke de Palatine founded the Pre Nicene Ekklesia and later passed on the role of Primate to Arch Bishop George Boyer.   Bishop  Boyer in his own right already held lines from Churches recognized by the Anglican Church and World Council of Churches.  These lines were passed onto ++Michael Norman Buckley OCR in 2003, giving rise to the Ecclessia Apostolica Rosae Rubeae & Aureae Crucis, a legitimate church founded in Sussex, England."

The Inner Ecclesia: The Seven Churches of Asia

The seven churches of Assiah, the World of Action, is a Johannine reference to the Earthly and primordial transmission that is entrusted to the custodial care of Orthodox succession and inner practice. In his classic work Ecce Homo, Louis Claude de St. Martin wrote that the early Christian priests had four powers: to make the Lord's Supper, to forgive sins, to heal diseases and to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. The Marquis St Martin taught that priests in modern times have retained only the first two. Ordinary priests were likened unto officers in the Lodge of Saint John who had essentially "lost the password", as they say.

In A.E. Waite's Hidden Church of the Holy Grail,the fourth chapter is entitled, "The Victory of the Latin Rite." As the tradition of the Holy Graal and the Celtic Church are both in alignment with the mysticism of the Orthodox church and the unrestricted and organic fluidity of the Pre-Nicean church, Waite's writing is particularly relevant to the Apostolicism seen in the esoteric Christian community's Orders of Ormus, the Priory of Sion, the Scottish Rectified Regime, the Asiatic Brethren, the Golden Rosicrucians and the Fratres Lucis. Allow me to quote a passage for your consideration and nourishment,

"I have now put forward the hypothesis of the Celtic Church as it has never been expressed previously; I have diminished nothing, and any contrary inferences have been proposed so far temperately; but the issues are not entirely those of the Graal legend, and in view of all that comes after a few words in conclusion of this part may perhaps be said more expressly. It should be on record, for those who have ears, that the Welsh Church, with its phantom and figurehead bishops, its hereditary priesthood, its fighting and sanguinary prelates, and its profession of sanctity as others profess trades, seems a very good case for those who insist that the first Christianity of Britain was independent of St. Augustine, which it was, and very much indeed, but on the whole we may prefer Rome. When we have considered all the crazes and heresies, all the pure, primitive and unadulterated Christianities, being only human and therefore disposed to gratitude, it is difficult not to thank God for Popery. But it would also be difficult to be so thankful, that is to say, with the same measure of sincerity, if we were still in the school courses and belonged officially thereto.

I mean to say, although under all reserves, that there is always some disposition to hold a fluidic brief for Rome in the presence of the other assemblies. William Howitt, the historian of priestcraft à rebours, once said: "Thanks be to God for the mountains!" It is well to quote from our enemies, but not in the sense of our enemies, and hence I read by substitution the seven hills and the city built thereon. Let therefore those who will strive with those who can over the dismembered relics of apostolical Christianity; but so far as we are concerned the dead can bury their dead. We have left the Celtic Church as we have left carved gods. A Pan-Britannic Church might have been the dream of one period, and were that so, seeing that it never came to fulfilment, we could understand why it is that in several respects the Graal literature has now the aspect of a legend of loss and now of a legend of to-morrow. The Anglican Church seems in this sense to recall for a moment that perverse generation which asked for a sign and was given the sign of Jonah. It has demanded apostolical evidences to enforce its own claim and it has been given the Celtic Church. Let us therefore surrender thereto the full fruition thereof. There may be insufficiencies and imperfect warrants in the great orthodox assemblies, but in the Celtic Church there is nothing which we can regret. Gildas and St. Bernard are eloquent witnesses concerning it. The Latin rite prevailed because it was bound to prevail, because the greater absorbs the lesser. On the other hand, and now only in respect of the legends, let us say lastly that the ascension of Galahad is, symbolically speaking, without prejudice to the second coming of Cadwaladr. It does not signify for our purpose whether Arthur ever lived, and if so whether he was merely a petty British prince. The Graal is still the Graal, and the mystery of the Round Table is still the sweet and secret spirit of universal knighthood."

Such things are the concerns of the Abbey of St Sulpice, the Order of St Leo & the Knights of the Holy Ghost. Amen. +