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Contents Jan van Rijckenborgh (October 16, 1896 – July 17,
Featured content 1968) was a Dutch-born mystic and founder of the
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Wikipedia store Jan van Rijckenborgh was born in Haarlem, Holland,
under the name Jan Leene, adopting the name van
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Van Rijckenborgh propounded his own form of Gnostic Christianity based upon the Rosicrucian
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Manifestos, Johann Valentin Andreae's works The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
and Rei Christianopolotanae Descriptio and his own wide ranging explorations into
hermeticism, alchemy, Freemasonry, the Cathars (thanks in part to his collaboration with neo-
Cathar historian Antonin Gadal), Christian Gnosticism and other forms of esoteric study. Taking
as his central image of the relationship between the Soul and the Body the Rose Cross he

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argued for the Transfiguration/Gnostic Rebirth of the Soul in Man, thus achieving a
transcendence of the dialectic of ordinary life. The Lectorium was founded to study and
proselytize these ideas.

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Jan van Rijckenborgh died in 1968 and was succeeded by Catharose de Petri as leader of the
movement until her death in 1990. The Lectorium Rosicrucianum continues to exist to this day
all over the world. Rijckenborgh's books include Dei Gloria Intacta, The Coming New Man and
The Egyptian Gnosis.

See also [edit]

Christian Rosenkreutz
Confessio Fraternitatis
Fama Fraternitatis

References [edit]

Rosicrucians Through the Ages Rozekruis Pers/ Rosycross Press ISBN 90-6732-323-3
Dei Gloria Intacta Jan van Rijckenborgh. Rozekruis Pers/ Rosycross Press

External links [edit]

Jan van Rickenborgh: Profile

WorldCat · VIAF: 25125459 · LCCN: nr97020415 · ISNI:

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Categories: Christian mystics Dutch Christian religious leaders Rosicrucians

1896 births 1968 deaths People from Haarlem

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