The Eglise Gnostique began here mission in North America out of relations that resulted in a concordat with the last of the successors to Chambellant from the original Gnostic Church of Bricaud in France. This relationship was established by the current Bishop of the Council. Additionally, there are a number of Bishops of other jurisdictions with whom the Eglise Gnostique is in friendly relation and communication.

The aforementioned ecclesiastical bodies are the only ones with which our Church has or has had any association. Concerning all other organizations styling themselves «Gnostic» we advise all inquirers to subject them to thorough scrutiny before accepting their claims to being Gnostic.

It should be further pointed out that there are many groups which use the same or similar letters to refer to themselves - This in NO WAY implies any connection to each other, least of all to our Church. There are all manner of ideas and individual practices which do not pertain to our tradition or the original intentions of our forbears and which have been inserted into the ever-increasing number of groups latching on to the title of Gnostic. From the very inception of the renewed Gnostic Church in France - the re-establishment of the Gnosis in modern times, originally, that of Doinel, then that of Papus and Bricaud. Jean Bricaud, receiving the Apostolic Succession of the oriental orthodox Church (as well as the authorization for the Carmel-Eliac Church and the Johannine Church of Templar origination (la Sainte Eglise du Christ, often mistakely called l'Eglise Johannite des Chrétiens Primitifs) grounded the Church in a more Catholic-styled Gnostic Christianity. Our relations in France continue the work of the church from Bricaud, whose successor was Constant Chevillon, and whose successor as elected patriarch was René Chambellant - all in the stream of Gnostic Christianity, and we are proud to have received her blessing for this continued work.

We wish to make it perfectly clear that, in keeping with the traditions of Martinism, the Cathars, etc., the whole of the French Gnostic Tradition has always, irrevocably, been one of Christian Gnosticism, even while being esoteric, mystical or initiatory in orientation; and that our Church has continued to be a public sacramental organization since its re-founding in 1890 by Jules Doinel, and even more particularly since 1908 with Jean Bricaud's establishment of the Eglise Gnostique Universelle (followed in 1913 by the reception of the Apostolic Succession). We do not claim to represent any other body than the French Gnostic Tradition which we have received through successions, initiations and alliances, and do not actively seek recognition from any other authority, not seeing the necessity so to do.

T. Vincent II, in ecclesia
Eglise Gnostique