Tau Heosphoros Iacchus is a practitioner of the Left Hand Path, a Luciferian, a Gnostic, and, most of all, a Magician. He has been a student of The Occult, practicing Ceremonial Magician, Thelemite and member of the Neo-Pagan community for over 25 years. He is a former Wiccan priest, was a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis for 16 years, were he served as an ordained Priest of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (Gnostic Catholic Church) for almost ten years, and has lectured on Magick and Neo-Paganism in Atlanta and at the University of Georgia. On 10/3/1998 he was consecrated a Gnostic Bishop in the Doinel line, and cross consecrated with the lines of succession held by Tau Michael Bertiaux on 4/30/2005. His current focus is on the exploration of a coherent system built upon the concepts of Metaphysical Kinship, the transmission of ecclesiastical powers, ecstatic ritual, spirit work (including Afro-Diasporic practices, as well as Solomonic and Renaissance Ceremonial Magick), sexual magick, and the Gnostic Voudon system of Michael Bertiaux with special emphasis on the Point Chaud empowerments. He is a loving husband and the proud father of a fifteen year old son and an eleven year old step-daughter.

Tau Peristera de Magdalene has been practicing magick in various forms and studying the occult since 1985. A practitioner of the Land-Hand Path, a sex magician, a Luciferian, and a student of the Mysteries, she has held many offices and been known as many things during those 20+ years; however, she primarily considers herself, simply, a Magician. She was a member of the OTO for 13 years and a local body master for 4 years, as well as, an ordained deacon and practicing priestess within the EGC (now resigned from both groups). Currently, she serves as an ordained High Priestess of Magick and, on 4/30/2005, she was consecrated a Gnostic Bishop in the Doinel line by Heosphoros Iacchus and the lines of succession held by Tau Michael Bertiaux by way of Tau Ishaviva and later co-consecrated in the same lines, among others, by Tau Allen Greenfield. Recent studies include herbalism, tantra, tarot, thelemic and ceremonial ritual, yoga, energy work and healing, the points-chaud initiatory system, blood magick, egregores, and general experimental magick.

Residing in Athens GA with her husband and 11-year-old daughter, she also has a 15-year-old stepson. Her primary goals include new studies in various branches of magick, exploration of the points-chaud system, adventures in various forms of art, and serving the local community as a High Priestess of Magick and Bishop of the Gnostic Mysteries.

Peristera will very soon be finishing a dual BA in Psychology and Religion with special emphasis on witchcraft, paganism, ritual, and cross-cultural studies. After graduation she plans to move pursue a PhD in Anthropology with an emphasis on urban sub-culture, cults in the U.S., and forensic investigations of “cult” crimes.