The Healing Sanctuary of every Gnostic Doctor must have its Altar made of Cypress wood or scented wood. It is necessary to wash the wooden altar with hot water and perfumed soap before its consecration. The altar-table is consecrated when it is rubbed with a sponge imbibed with rose water and when it is smeared with a mastic made from white virgin wax, evergreen resin, frankincense, aloe, thyme, pine resin and Sniyrna incense. The altar-table can also be made with Cedar wood, which is the wood of Joseph the Initiate, father of Jesus of Nazareth. The Cedar has great occult powers

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