Jan van Rijckenborgh (1896-1968) was a Dutch rosicrucian, founder with Catharose of $petri of the École of the Rosicrucian brotherhood d' Or.

Biography

Jan Leene , known under its pseudonym of Jan van Rijckenborgh, was born with Haarlem in 1896. It grows in a severe medium protesting from which hypocrisy moved away it.

Still young person, Jan van Rijckenborgh was strongly influenced by a theologist, professor A.H of Hartog (1869-1938). This last préchait a “realistic theology”, and insisted on a reasonable faith and a reasonable worship. It was thus one of the founders of the International École of Philosophy , institute specialized in the comparative study of the religions and the cultures. It opened the dialog with the persons in charge of the " party of the travailleurs" time. By Hartog, van Rijckenborgh discovered works of Jacob Boehme. De Hartog had a faith in an original force being held behind all that existed, concept borrowed from the “Ungrund” of Boehme, the non-being. In its thirtieth year, van Rijckenborgh will translate and publish Aurora of Boehme.

Its quète had put it in contact with the movement rosicrucian of max Heindel, the christocentric thought of the Rosicrucian brotherhood, and the Hermétisme.

The teaching esoteric which shows reality present behind the appearance of the things, birth of the cosmos, causes of the " chute" , the secrecies of the Initiation strongly attract it. Its research also makes him discover Paracelse, Comenius, Van Helmont, Robert Fludd, and finally, the Proclamations of the Rosicrucian brotherhood…

Jan and its brother, Zwier Willem (Wim) Leene, adhered to the Rosicrucian Fellowship of max Heindel in 1924, and became the persons in charge of the branch Dutchwoman.

Besides Jan van Rijckenborgh makes go up the birth of what would become later the Lectorium Rosicrucianum , in its mission specific to a meeting which took place on August 24th, 1924.

Madam Henriette Stok-Huizer (1902-1990), which will take later the name of Catharose of $petri, united with the Leene brothers in 1930. In 1938 the death of Wim Leene took place (born in 1892).

The consecutive quarrels of succession with died of max Heindel (1919) affected the operation of Rosicrucian Fellowship, and allowed the independence of the center of Haarlem which took the name of Fondation max Heindel , until the total and official rupture which took place in 1935.

Jan van Rijckenborgh discovers in 1936, in London, with the British Museum, the first edition of a work little known of Johann Valentine Andreae of 1619, Reipublicae Christianopolitae Descriptio , which it translates and to print in 1939 under the name of Christianopolis , as well as an edition of the Fama Fraternitatis , Confessio Fraternitatis and of Chymische Hochzeit (respectively the Call of the Fraternity of the Rosicrucian brotherhood, the Testimony of Fraternity, the Noces Chymiques de Christian Rosenkreutz. | It will publish comments of these works between 1937 and 1939. The Second world war saw the activities of the " company rosicrucienne" prohibited and its destroyed temples. Jan van Rijckenborgh and Mrs Catharose of $petri, during these years of war, while going back to the sources of the historical Rosicrucian brotherhood, reflect in writing what will give rise to the Lectorium Rosicrucianum in 1945.

The two founders met, in France, in 1948, Antonin Gadal (1871-1962), which was one of the instigators of the revival cathare in Occitanie and which lived in Ussat-Ornolac in the area of Montségur.

Jan van Rijckenborgh wrote: “Christian Rosicrucian brotherhood is one of the great figures behind which the Chain is held of whole universal Fraternity. Each one can enter its House, built for all humanity, the true Residence of the Holy Ghost; such is the message in all its force… The last word in this world is with Christian-Rose-Cross. ”

Jan van Rijckenborgh died in 1968.

Of the Rosicrucian brotherhood of the XVIIème century at our days

In its analyzes of “Proclamations of the Rosicrucian brotherhood”, which is the texts founders of the rosicrucianism, it evokes the determining influence of Uranus (Verseau), Neptune and Pluton in the upheavals of our time and announces in other books the emergence of new planets within the Solar system, prelude to discoveries, but also to changes of the human experiment and conscience.

Its reflection touches all the spiritual fields where one raises the influence of the Gnose and includes/understands 400 publications including some translated into 15 languages.

She embraces as well the hermetic gnosis, as Chinese (comments of CAT You King) that the Évangile S found with Nag Hammadi, and particularly that of the Pistis sophia, which were the subject of conferences. These publications take again extracts of thousands of ritual and short speeches transmitted to the courses of “Services” given in the temples of the Rosicrucian brotherhood d' Or.

Works of Jan van Rijckenborgh

  • Dei Gloria Intacta , Editions of the Septenary one.
  • the Universal Gnosis , Editions of the Septenary one.
  • a new man comes , Éditions of the Septenary one.
  • the Egyptian original Gnosis and its call in the eternal present (4 volumes), Editions of the Septenary one.
  • Nycthéméron - Apollonius de Tyane (comments) , Editions of the Septenary one.
  • the Chinese Gnosis (comments of CAT You King) and Proclamations of the Rosicrucian brotherhood , Editions of the Septenary one.
  • the Testimony of the Fraternity of the Rosicrucian brotherhood - Confessio Fraternitatis (comments) , Editions of the Septenary one.
  • the Call of Fratenité - Fama Fraternitatis (comments) , Editions of the Septenary one.
  • chymic Weddings of Christian Rosicrucian brotherhood (the first 6 days comments) , Editions of the Septenary one.
  • the Gnosis of times present , Editions of the Septenary one.
  • elementary Philosophy of the modern Rosicrucian brotherhood , Editions of the Septenary one.

External bonds

  • Official site of Lectorium Rosicrucianum

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