Our Creed
The short-form Creed below is an adapted version of the short-form Madrian Creed from our earliest founders. We have added the additional verse reciting our belief in the Seven Great Janati, through whom our Lady’s pure light streams into creation. We are devotees of the triplate Déa- our Heavenly Mother, Her Holy Daughter, and the unknowable Great Mother. The Janite Creed reflects our beliefs about Her.
The Janite Creed (Short Form)
I believe that I am created from before the Dawn of Time,
by the Eternal One, Madria Dea.
And I believe that She is One and Three and Seven.
I believe in the Celestial Mother, She Who is Pure Light;
The Creatrix of the Earth and of the Heavens,
and of all the infinite Cosmos.
And I believe in Her Holy Daughter, born of the Celestial Mother;
She Who rules all the energies of Creation,
Whose Nature is Perfect Love.
And I believe that there is She, Who stands beyond these Two,
Whose Name has not been spoken upon this Earth;
For She is the Beginning and the end,
The First Principle and the Final Cause,
The unoriginated Origin of Being;
The Great Mother of all that is and all that is not; She, Who Is.
I believe in the Seven Janati, the Seven Great Powers of Dea.
I believe that they are the Living Streams of Virtue who flow from the Mother
and that, together, these Living Streams form the River of Life.
I believe that it is through the Holy Daughter,
that my soul shall rise, renewed in its Perfection,
that I may return to Eternal Communion with the Eternal One,
Madria Dea,
In the Completion of the Wholeness of Her Will.
Blessed is She.
Our Catechism
A Catechism is a manual, especially one for the instruction of worshippers in religious doctrine, often in the form of questions and answers. It is a systematic summary of beliefs, a manual for teaching principles, or even a formal set of questions for a test (Webster Dictionary, 2025).
The Catechism is the single most important piece of literature in the Janite faith. It is the positive, objective and declarative exposition of Janite doctrine, providing a stable framework upon which the faith rests and is restored. Our Catechism has its origins in the Madrian Catechism, with updates made to both include our dedication to the Seven Great Janati, and to detract any falsified beliefs that were inserted in the Madrian edition by secular forces.
Reading the Catechism is reading a conversation between Spirit and Soul, one that is universal, wholesome, and sacred. Rather than treating it simply as a written exposition of beliefs, one should view it as a sacred piece of text, full of simple beauty and clear guidance. Through the Catechism, our faith could be rebuilt even if the smallest grain were destroyed. Through the Catechism, devotees are unified across the globe. Together with the Creed, it is the founding document of our faith.
Our Catechism is important, because it serves two main purposes.
First, it is a succinct, non-ornate declaration of our beliefs. Many times, humans find ourselves using flowery or verbose language to try to convey the depth of our religion and philosophy. The simple, straight-forward phrasing of the Catechism cuts through that, allowing for clarity and agreement in action and belief.
Second, it serves as a way for seekers to decide if the Janite tradition is a good fit for the need of their Souls. We’re well aware that, in this age of Patriarchy, when even Goddessian religions feel pressure to include a male ‘God’ or divinity in their practices, that our Feminine faith is an outlier…but that’s okay! Not every shoe fits every foot, and we (though we believe our faith is Universal and Perennial in the truest sense of both words) understand that not every seeker in this lifetime will find that our faith and doctrines resonate with them. And that’s okay!
The Catechism is as holy as our Creed, as sanctified as a prayer, and as blessed as the goblet used in the Rite of Sacrifice. She doesn’t have as many beautiful trimmings or trappings, but in the solid, grounded words below, lies the perennial wisdom of the faith of the Divine Feminine.
The Catechism of Kore Di-Jana
I. THE ORIGIN OF THE SOUL
1. From whence do you come and where is your first origin?
I was created from before the beginning of time by Dea out of the overflowing of Her divine love.
2. What manner of creature are you?
I am the reflection of a fragment of Her eternal Spirit.
3. What have been your actions since the beginning of time?
I have passed through many states of existence and many forms of life (although I can remember but a little).
4. How came you upon this wheel of countless existences?
In the beginning, my soul turned from the love of Dea, in order to learn that which I did not know, and so fell into exile from Her natural state.
5. What is the natural state of your soul?
The natural state of my soul is Perfect Union with Dea, which is the state of pure bliss.
II. DEITY
6. What is the first cause of existence?
Dea is the first cause of existence, for She created the manifest universe.
7. Who is Dea?
Dea is the one Spirit of the universe, complete in Herself, uncreated, and infinite in potency, perception and perfection.
8. What is the Mystery of the Divine Trinity?
That there is only one Dea, yet She is three Persons.
9. What is a Mystery?
A Mystery is a truth beyond the grasp of reason which Dea has nonetheless revealed to us.
10. Who are the three Persons of the Trinity?
Our Celestial Mother, Her Divine Daughter, and the Great Mother who is Absolute Deity. *
11. Who is our Celestial Mother?
The Mother is the Creator of the world and the Ground of all being.
12. What is Her Nature?
She is Pure Light, and Pure Energy.
13. What are Her Acts?
All life, all action, and all thought flow from Her.
14. Who is Her Daughter?
Her Daughter is Princess of the World and Queen of Heaven, Daughter of Wisdom and our High Priestess.
15. What is Her Nature?
She is Pure Love.
16. What are Her Acts?
As Princess of the World, She governs all the cycles of life and nature; as High Priestess, She gives us Communion with Her Mother; as Queen of Heaven, She shall bring us at last to the Celestial Throne, as Daughter of Wisdom, She guides us in all Truth.
17. Who is the Great Mother?
She is Absolute Deity, Who existed before the beginning of existence and is beyond being and unbeing.
18. What is Her Nature?
She is outside space and time; She is all that is and all that is not.
19. What are Her Acts?
The exhalation of Her breath or Spirit is our Mother, the Creator of the world. Of Her other Acts, our minds cannot conceive.
20. Does Trinity last only for the period of manifest creation?
No, Trinity is the eternal Nature of Deity.
21. Had Dea any beginning?
Dea had no beginning and will have no end.
22. When did the Dea create the world?
She creates it now and in every moment; if She ceased to create it, it would cease to exist.
23. Where is Dea?
She is in every place at all times.
24. What is the name of Dea?
She has been given many names by many different peoples.
25. Yet are there many Gods?
No, there is only one Dea.
26. Are there other deities?
There are no other deities.
27. Who are those others that some worship as Deities?
Many are Geniae and creatures of the higher spheres; others are keres or mere creatures of illusion.
28. Could Dea have a special relationship with one or more of these higher creatures?
She could have no special relationship.
29. What is the reason for this?
Firstly, She alone is uncreated; all other beings are of Her creation, therefore none can exist on Her own level. Secondly, the highest relationship between creature and Deity is that of Perfect Union; this is the final aim of every soul, and no special relationship can be higher than this.
30. What are the powers of Dea?
The powers of Dea are infinite; nothing is impossible to Her.
31. What is the knowledge of Dea?
The knowledge of Dea is infinite; She knows all that is, all that has been, and all that is to come.
III. GOOD AND EVIL
32. What is a moral decision?
A moral decision is a decision between good and evil.
33. What is Absolute Good?
Dea is Absolute Good.
34. What is relative good?
Relative good is a state of moving closer to Dea.
35. What is relative evil?
Relative evil is a state of moving further away from Dea.
36. What is absolute evil?
Absolute evil is the complete absence of Dea.
37. Can absolute evil exist?
Absolute evil cannot exist, for Dea is the essence of existence; therefore a thing completely without Her would have no existence.
38. What is the highest good of all creatures?
The highest good of all creatures is Perfect Union with Dea.
39. When we speak of moving closer to Dea, do we speak of the material plane or of the spiritual plane?
Of the spiritual plane.
40. What is meant by moving closer to Dea on the spiritual plane?
It means that we become more like our true selves and more in harmony with Her.
41. What do you mean by moving further from Dea on the spiritual plane?
It means that we become more unlike our true selves and more out of harmony with Her.
42. What is our true self?
Our true selves are the perfect expression of a facet of Deity.
43. What is the general nature of our true selves?
Our true selves are creatures of infinite beauty, existing in a state of perfect happiness and in complete harmony with Dea, and subject to no limitations of any kind.
44. What is the particular name of our true selves?
Every facet of Deity is utterly unique, so also are the creatures which express them.
IV IMPERFECT EXISTENCE: MATTER AND LIMITATION
45. What was your first moral action?
My first moral action was to turn from Dea at the beginning of time in order to learn all that which I did not know
48. What was the nature of things before this act?
Before this act all things were Perfect Forms or Divine Ideas without experience.
49. What was the nature of all things after this act?
After this act all things became matter that they might have existence apart from Dea.
50. What is matter?
All things below the level of pure spirit are material.
51. Is matter purely physical?
No, matter is both physical and non-physical
52. Is matter evil?
Insofar as matter reflects Divine Ideas it is good; but it is a broken and imperfect reflection of them.
53. What are the three chief parts of the material or non-spiritual existence which affect us in this world?
The physical, the emotional, and the mental.
54. What is the characteristic of imperfect existence which is absent from perfect existence?
Limitation
55. What is limitation?
Limitation is the inability of the soul to accomplish her will (on the lowest planes it is the manifest of the scarcity of material resources); it is the source of suffering and of all other evils.
56. What is the source of limitation?
Separation from Dea is the source of limitation, for Dea is unlimited and so also are all souls in harmony with Her.
V. THE FOUNDATIONS OF GOOD ACTION
57. Since your first moral act, have you committed others?
Almost every act committed since that time has had a moral character.
58. What is the moral character of a material act?
It is its spiritual quality of good or evil.
59. How is that determined?
It is determined by whether the act is in accordance with the three Primary Virtues.
60. What are the Three Primary Virtues?
They are Life, or Wholeness; Light, or Energy; and Love, or Harmony.
61. Where can we learn of these virtues?
In the scriptures called the Crystal Tablet.
62. What are the five Rules of Life by which we may achieve these virtues?
They are:
1. To love Dea.
2. To love all Her Creatures.
3. To love my true self.
4. To seek to make my every act a perfect gift to Her, and to offer to Her all my happiness and all my suffering.
5. To seek to bring all souls closer to Her.
VI.. THE QUEST OF THE SOUL
63. Have you lived before this life?
I have lived before.
64. How long have you lived?
I have lived since the beginning of time.
65. Of this, how much can you remember?
I can remember only a little.
66. How long shall you live?
I shall live forever.
67. What will happen when you die?
I shall go after death into the paradise of the Daughter, called Avala, to rest in happiness.
68. Shall you then inhabit a body?
No, I shall be all soul.
69. What is a soul?
Soul is the spiritual body which is our True Self
75. Shall any soul be lost forever?
No, in the fullness of time, every soul shall realize the full horror of evil and shall turn to the Good.
76. Shall you remain forever in Avala?
No, eventually I shall continue my journey toward the Mother.
77. Can your soul approach directly to the Mother?
She cannot.
78. Why is this?
Because, having turned from Her at the beginning of time, I am not absolute. Therefore my soul cannot exist in Her presence.
79. In what way then can you approach Deity?
I can approach Her Daughter.
80. How is this so?
Because seeing the plight of humanity, She proceeded from Her Mother in order that we may come to Her.
81. By what means did She do this?
By Her descent into manifestation; Her Divine Shattering and becoming the World Soul.
82. Did She Ascend back to the Mother?
Yes, and as She rose, so shall we rise, that we may come back to the Mother.
83. And shall the Daughter guide you on your way from Avala?
She is always guiding the soul that turns to Her.
VII. EKKLESIA
84. What is the Ekklesia?
The Ekklesia is the body of all souls who are in communion with Dea.
85. Is the Ekklesia of this world only?
No, the Ekklesia exists on every plane of being.
86. Does the Ekklesia include only human souls?
No, the Ekklesia includes Heras, Janati, Geniae, angels and other souls, both incarnate and disincarnate.
87. What are the three ways by which a human soul may enter the Ekklesia?
By Charisma, by Initiation, and by Offering.
88. What is the Charismatic entry?
Charismatic entry occurs when a soul, through her devotion, is received by Dea without any earthly Sacrament.
89. What is Initiation?
Initiation is the Sacrament by which the Ekklesia receives a mature person.
90. What takes place at this Sacrament?
The initiate dies to the world of matter and is reborn into the Ekklesia.
91. What is Offering?
Offering is the ritual by which an infant is offered to Dea and is received into the Ekklesia.
92. Is Offering sufficient for a whole lifetime?
No, the child should later receive her own Initiation when grown
93. What is the reason for Offering?
It allows the child to enjoy the spiritual benefits of being a member of the Ekklesia, helps her to draw closer to Dea, and makes her a member of Her Earthly family from the beginning.
94. What is a Sacrament?
A Sacrament is an act which takes place at once on Earth and in the Pleroma. It is an outward, visible sign of an inward, divine Grace
95. What is the Pleroma?
The Pleroma is the realm of pure Being where alone an action can attain complete reality.
96. What is Communion?
Communion is the Sacrament through which initiates of the Ekklesia nourish their spirits and souls by union with Dea.
97. How often should a devotee take Communion?
If possible, a devotee should take Communion regularly. She must take Communion at least on each Major Festival unless prevented by extreme difficulty or if a priestess is not in the area.
98. Who can celebrate Communion?
Only a validly ordained priestess can celebrate Communion.
99. What is a priestess?
A priestess is a maid chosen by Dea to serve Her earthly children.
100. How does a maid become a priestess?
Through the Initiation of Ordination.
101. Is the Initiation of a priestess a Sacrament?
The initiation of a priestess is a Sacrament.
102. What are the two duties of a priestess?
1. To transmit the Power of Dea through the Sacraments and other rituals.
2. To have care of the souls of Her children in devotional and other matters.
103. What is the Sacrifice?
The Sacrifice is an act of devotion to Dea.
104. Is the Sacrifice a Sacrament?
The Sacrifice is not a Sacrament.
105. How often must a devotee make Sacrifice?
A devotee must make Sacrifice on the Full Moons. The devotee may also serve the Rite of Sacrifice on the Dark and 5th day Crescent Moons if they so desire.
VIII. THE CULT DOMESTIC
106. What is the Cult Domestic?
The Cult Domestic is the whole religious life of a Deanic Hestia centering upon a regular domestic Sacrifice.
107. Who shall celebrate the Sacrifice?
The spiritual head of household shall celebrate the Sacrifice.
108. Who is the spiritual head of the Hestia?
Either the mother, or else the temporal matriarch, or any other maid who has made a solemn undertaking to act as spiritual head of her household.
109. Who shall celebrate if she is absent?
Either her eldest daughter, or any other maid whom she has chosen to act as her surrogate.
110. What is a Hestia?
A Hestia, or sacred hearth, is a home that has been blessed and consecrated to Dea.
111. Should the Cult Domestic replace the Communion of Ekklesia?
The Cult Domestic should never replace the Communion of Ekklesia unless there is no practicing priestess in the area.
111b. If there is no practicing priestess in the area, may the Cult Domestic celebrate the Communion of Ekklesia?
In times of emergency or absence of a priestess, the Cult Domestic may celebrate a Rite of Sacrifice, asking the Holy Daughter as High Priestess to sanctify the rite as Communion, and partake of a small part of the Sacrifice in Her honor.
IX. PERSONAL DEVOTION
112. How shall you preserve the spiritual health of your soul?
By rejecting the false materialistic values of the world, and seeking to live in gentleness, generosity, and innocence.
113. How should you amend the faults of your soul?
By repentance and true devotion.
114. What is prayer?
Prayer is a personal communication with Dea.
115. What is the importance of prayer?
Prayer is the breath of my spiritual life.
116. When should you pray?
I should pray frequently, but at least at Aurora, Noontide and Evensong.
117. What is Aurora?
Aurora is Morning prayer, an offering of the day’s events to Dea and asking of Her blessing upon them.
117 B: What is Noontide
Noontide are short prayers at noon or, at least, a lifting of our hearts and thoughts towards Dea, to tell Her that we are mindful of Her during the day and that we love Her.
118. What is Evensong?
Evensong is night prayer, a return to full contemplation of Dea at the end of the day and expressions of gratitude.
119. Should prayer be a mere repeating of words?
No, prayer should be a bringing of the whole being to Dea. Even if reciting rote prayers, such as the rosary or other prayers, the heart, mind and thoughts should be focused on Dea or on Her Mysteries.
120. What are the other chief forms of personal devotion?
Meditation upon Dea and Her Mysteries and saying the Roseary.
121. How should you end your devotions?
By tracing the Fora upon myself.
X. THE SEVEN GREAT JANATI
122: Who are the Seven Great Janati?
The Janati are the Seven Powers, Faces and Living Streams of Dea in intelligent, rarefied form.
123. What is the nature of the Seven Great Janati?
Their nature is the nature of Dea; they are perfect Virtue, perfect Action, and perfect Order.
124. What are Their acts?
They give order and definition to material existence, and enact the continual preservation of material existence.
125. Are They personal or impersonal Spirits?
They are personal spirits given attributes and purpose by Dea.
126. Are They physical or intangible ?
They are as universal as Dea, capable of both physical form and intangible spiritual form.
127. Are they intercessional?
The Janati intercede at the request of any faithful or good-hearted being.
Kore Di-Jana, The Janite Ekklesia 