Scriptures

 

The Filianic Scriptures are freely available online in a few different editions. One of the earliest online versions of the Scriptures was the New Celestial Union version (NCU) and is available in its second edition online through Thea Haus, HERE.

The Eastminster Critical Edition of the Clear Recital (ECE) is available for free HERE (5th edition), courtesy of Race MoCridhe. [Alternate link to the 4th edition HERE.] The 5th edition is a massive undertaking, including: prayers & hymns; details on all of our holidays and traditions; changes between all published versions of the Scriptures; and the history the faith, to include publications from Lux Madriana and further groups in two separate volumes alongside the Scriptures.

The Mother God website also sells a hard copy of the Scriptures, and a version of the NCU is on Lulu. If you are aware of any other places where you can purchase a copy of the Scriptures, please let me know!

Citing Scriptures
I follow the early citation method developed for the NCU version of the Scriptures. NCU style citations look like 2:1:34, 1:9:21, or 4:3:35.
This method with the three numbers instead of two immediately makes it obvious that the cited verse is not a Biblical reference and fits cleanly into the type of image I want to make as I don't have to include (often wordy) chapter titles.

 

Since the early groups who publicised the Scriptures never gave an official order that the different chapters follow, different versions of the Scriptures will have their own organisation. That said, all versions I am aware of keep the first portion -- the story of the Divine Drama of Mother & Daughter through Crystal Tablet -- in the same place; it is mostly the following 'Minor Scriptures' that are sorted differently to the compiler's choice.

 

In the NCU version, the entirety of the Scriptures is broken up into four sections known as Titles:

• Title 1, The Major Scriptures, comprised of the Holy Drama of the Mother & Daughter (this is the Sacred Mythos through the Mythos of the Divine Maid in the ECE);
• Title 2, The Crystal Tablet;
• Title 3, The Minor Scriptures, which is nearly everything else, except what is in Title 4;
• Title 4, The Wisdom Texts: The Clew of the Horse, the Heart of Water, & the Pillar of Light.

The first number in a citation refers to which Title the cited verse comes from. From the examples above, 2 is Crystal Tablet, 1 is the Major Scriptures, and 4 is from the Wisdom Texts.

 

Each Title is then broken down into the individual chapters we know, like the Sermon of the Apple Seed, the Teachings of the Daughter, On Our Mother's Love, and so on. The second number in our sequence refers to these chapters: the final citation above - 4:3:35 - points to the third of the Wisdom Texts, the Pillar of Light.

 

Finally the third number is the verse number(s). While the order of the chapters is nearly always completely different between versions, the verse numbers are pretty much always the same.

 

To cite other editions and versions of the Scriptures, such as the ECE, we use the same method as citing a Bible verse: Name followed by Chapter:Verse. So 2:1:34 would be The Crystal Tablet 1:34.