Stephan A. Hoeller is an American author, lecturer and neo-Gnostic bishop.^[1]

Career

A lecturer and writer of books and articles about Gnosticism and Jungian psychology, Hoeller is also Regionary Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica.^[2]

Hoeller was ordained to the priesthood in the American Catholic Church by Bishop Lowell P. Wadle in 1958,^{[citation needed]} and consecrated bishop by Richard Duc de Palatine on April 9, 1967.^[3] After the death of Palatine, Hoeller abbreviated Palatine's church's name — the Pre-Nicene Gnostic Catholic Church — to Ecclesia Gnostica,^[4] and has since held the title of Regionary Bishop.

Hoeller has lectured in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Hungary, Germany, and the United States.^{[citation needed]} He was a member of the lecturing faculty of the late Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society,^{[citation needed]} and a national speaker for the Theosophical Society in America.^{[citation needed]} His articles have appeared in Gnosis magazine and Quest Magazine.

Partial bibliography

• The Royal Road: A Manual of Kabalistic Meditations on the Tarot (1975), ISBN 0-8356-0465-9 Second Edition republished as: The Fool's Pilgrimage, Kabbalistic Meditations on the Tarot (2004) ISBN 0-8356-0839-5
• The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (1982), ISBN 0-8356-0568-X
• Jung and the Lost Gospels (1989), ISBN 0-8356-0646-5
• Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society (1992), ISBN 0-8356-0678-3
• Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (2002), ISBN 0-8356-0816-6