About
The Universal Church of Autogenes is a community that encourages true spiritual growth while being inclusive, loving, and supportive regardless of race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation.
We believe that the Church should exist to empower and encourage the individual to continual growth in relationship with the Divine. That relationship is intensely personal, and while we guide and aide, it is not our place to impose on that relationship. The individual person’s relationship with the Divine is always more important than any tradition.
We see ourselves as part of the Contemporary Gnostic Reemergence. While we are grounded in the fullness of the Sethian tradition we are inter-spiritual. We accept that an individual’s relationship with the Divine often transcends any religious or cultural tradition, and thus encourages inter-spiritual exploration and practice.
Name of the Church:
The authority under which we ordain our priests is Christian and Catholic, thus the term Universal is used in reference the Holy Undivided Catholic Church. Universal is also used to indicate the Universalist nature of the Church.
Autogenes is a Classical Gnostic term used in reference to the Aeonic Christ figure. Autogenes is the third person of a trinity that consists of the Great Invisible Spirit as Father, Barbelo as Mother, and Autogenes as Son or Child. Autogenes is also the figure who acts as Corrector in the World of Forms.