Harry Everett Smith

Here is an excerpt from an address composed by FRATER SUPERIOR HYMENAEUS BETA that was read at NOTOCON Friday, August 4, 2023, EV.

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

“Today, I canonized Harry Everett Smith as a Saint of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica. Yes, he was my friend and guru, and he was proud to serve as a bishop of our Gnostic and Catholic Church. But he was so much more. Since his greater feast over thirty years ago, I have come to better appreciate, with each passing year, the breadth, depth and height of his cosmic vision, and the real extent of his continuing influence. Harry had a plan for this world, but especially for America. His pitiless gaze saw us as we really were, but he firmly believed in a just and joyous society, guided by love under will. A world free from class, free from injustice, free of prejudice, free from persecution, free of elitism, and free of coercion. A world where all cultures and peoples are valued absolutely on their own terms. He measurably moved the needle to make this real. He was a true son of the Lion and the Serpent, and destroyed the destroyer — he was the occult genius behind the ritual to levitate the Pentagon to end an unjust war. He lived to see America transformed. On accepting a Grammy award not long before his death, he said, “I’m glad to say that my dreams came true. That I saw America changed through music. And all that stuff that the rest of you are talking about.” He guided us from the old, weird America to a new America, and a new world, that are even weirder.

“Love is the law, love under will.”