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The Lectorium Rosicrucianum or International School of the Golden Rosycross is a Spiritual School which considers itself a worldwide school of Esoteric Christianity. It was founded in 1935 by Dutch mystics Jan van Rijckenborgh , his brother Zwier Willem Leene and Catharose de Petri .
Rosicrucianism (/ ˌ r oʊ z ɪ ˈ k r uː ʃ ə ˌ n ɪ z əm, ˌ r ɒ z ɪ-/) is a spiritual and cultural movement that arose in early modern Europe in the early 17th century after the publication of several texts announcing to the world a new esoteric order. Rosicrucianism is symbolized by the Rose Cross or Rosy Cross.
[1] [2] He founded the organization after a trip to France, claiming that he had been initiated into Rosicrucianism there in what he called an "old tower" in Toulouse. [2] He presented this as a revival of the original, partially mythical and ancient Rosicrucian Order. [3] The Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross (AMORC) was founded in 1915.
Because the Invisible College is a traditional expression of Freemasonic alchemical practices that are centuries old, [14] any private individual or member school may develop their own understanding, theories, and publications about alchemy, spirituality, and psychology without the explicit approval of some wider body of participants, and ...
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 ...
Johannes Valentinus Andreae (17 August 1586 – 27 June 1654), a.k.a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of an ancient text known as the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (published in 1616, Strasbourg; in English Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz in 1459).
The Rosicrucian Fraternity in America, with emphasis on a single fraternity, was an attack on AMORC and Lewis. [ 16 ] He also translated some works of Ludovico Maria Sinistrari , though changing Sinistrari's incubi and succubi to elementals and suggesting that the virgin birth of Jesus was the result of a Salamander impregnating Mary .
The AMORC Rosicrucian order maintains a difference between the "Great White Brotherhood" and the "Great White Lodge", saying that the Great White Brotherhood is the "school or fraternity" of the Great White Lodge, and that "every true student on the Path" aspires to membership in this Brotherhood. [12]