Jan van Rijckenborgh
Illustration — Jan van Rijckenborgh (1896–1968) Jan van Rijckenborgh (October 16, 1896 – July 17, 1968) was a Dutch-born mystic and founder of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, a worldwide esoteric Rosicrucian movement. Under the influence of Dr. Ultimately even Heindel's approach proved not enough for van Rijckenborgh and his brother, who left the Fellowship in 1935 to found their own Rosicrucian movement, the Lectorium Rosicrucianum.
Jan van Rijckenborgh
- Full name
- Jan Leene.
- Born
- 1896. · Haarlem.
- Died
- 1968.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Occupation
- writer, mystic and rosicrucianism.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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Illustration — Jan van Rijckenborgh (1896–1968) Jan van Rijckenborgh (October 16, 1896 – July 17, 1968) was a Dutch-born mystic and founder of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, a worldwide esoteric Rosicrucian movement. Under the influence of Dr. Ultimately even Heindel's approach proved not enough for van Rijckenborgh and his brother, who left the Fellowship in 1935 to found their own Rosicrucian movement, the Lectorium Rosicrucianum.
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Ideas
Van Rijckenborgh propounded his own form of Gnostic Christianity based upon the Rosicrucian 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 the Rose Cross as his central image of the relationship between the soul and the body, he argued for the transfiguration/gnostic rebirth of the soul in man. The Lectorium was founded to study and proselytize these ideas. Rijckenborgh's books include Dei Gloria Intacta, The Coming New Man and The Egyptian Gnosis.
Death
Death
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, also known as the Golden Rosycross continued in worldwide operation As of 2023.
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Jan van Rijckenborgh is recorded as a citizen of Kingdom of the Netherlands. Recorded with the occupation Rosicrucianism. Recorded with the occupation mystic. Recorded with the occupation writer. Recorded at birth as Jan Leene.
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1896
Jan van Rijckenborgh was born on 16 October 1896.
1968
Jan van Rijckenborgh died on 17 July 1968.
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