Esoteric community of Siva

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The Esoteric Community of Siva is a new religious movement that was founded in 1969 by Henk Leene, the former Grand Master of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum and son of Jan van Rijckenborgh (civil: Jan Leene). The first name of the group was "Community R + C, Rosae Crucis" . In 1972 the name was changed to "Esoteric Community of Siva".

The name "Sivas" was derived from Henk Leene from Domaine de Sivas in the French department of Hautes-Alpes , where the community had acquired a farm. According to Leene, druids with a philosophical connection to Brahmanism had worked in this area. The linguistic appeal of the community to the Hindu deity Shiva was therefore also programmatic.

history

Split from Lectorium Rosicrucianum

In 1969, Henk Leene and about 200 followers separated after lengthy conflicts from the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, which he directed as grandmaster . The content of the conflicts was both the formal claim to leadership and deep spiritual differences of opinion. So one spoke again of an individual self-initiation path, while in the Lectorium Rosicrucianum it is said that the path can only be followed in a group.

Foundation of the R + C community

With his wife Mia, Henk Leene first founded the R + C community (Dutch: Gemeenschap Rosae Crucis). In addition to the headquarters in Haarlem , a German center was set up in Kassel under the name “Community R + C, Rosae Crucis”. Organizationally, however, this new community did not remain stable in the long term.

Renaming to "Esoteric Community of Siva"

In the early 1970s, the "Community R + C, Rosae Crucis" in southern France acquired a farm in the Domaine de Sivas. As a result, the group's headquarters were relocated from Haarlem to France. From then on they called themselves the "Esoteric Community of Siva". The esoteric community of Siva would like to stand out in its self-portrayal from the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, from which it emerged, particularly in that it does not claim sole representation.

Foundation of the "Esoteric Community Siegen"

Approx. In 1980, a sub-group split off again, which went public under the name " The Esoteric Community Siegen " and held annual meetings for about ten years under the name "Esoteric Brotherhood Days Siegen".

Distancing oneself from other Rosicrucian movements

When the group dropped its Rosicrucian name in 1972 and renamed itself "Esoteric Community of Siva", the literature of Jan van Rijckenborgh, Catharose de Petri and the Rosicrucian Max Heindels was removed from the community libraries. The Saxon sect commissioner Harald Lamprecht and EZW employee Schilling published a quote on this from the magazine “Prometheus” (issue 10/1992) published by the “Esoteric Community of Siva” in which it justified the distancing from the New Rosicrucian groups, in particular from Lectorium Rosicrucianum, after the Rosicrucian name "R + C Rosae Crucis" was dropped:

“Through various experiences during the first year of our community's existence, we have discovered that the term 'Rosicrucian' or 'Rosae Crucis' arouses dislike, dislike or incomprehension in many people, because today many Rosicrucian movements use their questionable methods, teachings and behaviors under this Hide the flag. "

Gradually, all terms from the literature of the community that were too reminiscent of the neuroscruiser movement of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum were replaced with neutral terms. For example, the founder Henk Leene found the internal term “ pupil ” used by the Lectorium Rosicrucianum to be too delimitable, as it only referred to the members of the group involved and replaced it with the term “ pilgrim ”, to include seekers with this word to be better able to address and involve outside the community through literature. Hannelore Schilling from the EZW notes that the "Esoteric Community of Siva" is one of the orders that programmatically assume that divine powers and capacities are latently present in humans, which must be awakened through a transfiguristic process of self-awareness. However, these ideas are neither typically Rosicrucian in the sense of the historical Rosicrucian movement, nor is this doctrine in the true sense alchemical , since it is ancient ideas that are generally widespread anyway, since these teaching contents have been handed down as part of all esoteric systems.

philosophy

tradition

The teaching of the community is based on the traditions and symbols of the Rosicrucians and especially the Cathars , to whom Henk Leene felt particularly attached. Further bases were the writings of Max Heindel and the statements of Henk Leene and his wife Mia Leene himself.

Reforms

The teachings of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, largely compiled by his father Jan Leene under the pseudonym Jan van Rijckenborgh , were fundamentally reformed by Henk Leene. In particular, the radical claim to sole representation and absoluteness represented in the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, to be the only rightful Rosicrucian association and the only true universal Church of Salvation of the present, during the coming down of currently particularly liberating atmosphere, was discarded and rejected. As a result, Henk Leene fundamentally changed the terminology of his community by first switching the entire vocabulary back to the old terms of Max Heindel. Next, the various prohibitions and rules of life of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum were abolished. The tight organization and strong ties between individuals and groups were rejected. Jan van Rijckenborgh seems to have found himself in a desperate state in the last years of his life, as can be seen from a quote from Horst E. Miers from a letter from the former Grand Master of the Lectorium Henk Leene: «  The students [of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum] became faked so many beautiful pictures, all based on a mirage and on lies , and it is not possible in one letter to give you all the facts.  »The entire letter from Henk Leenes was translated by the head of the Kassel Center of the Lectorium, Heinz Borkowski, who joined the Henk Leenes group, and can be viewed on pages 37–38 on a website with a PDF dossier. This dossier was created by former members of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum and contains many (subjective) personal reports from former members and original documents that explain the background to the split of the "Community R + C, Rosae Crucis" (the later "Esoteric Community of Sivas").

aims

The formation of a "free community" was a central organizational idea. In the 1970s a magazine called "Prometheus" was published, which was an important link among the members and served to spread and deepen the teaching. A central idea for the goal of the spiritual development of the members and the community is expressed in the text "Community R + C" on page 23: Only “inner stages of development”, initiated on one's own initiative, lead from journeyman to master-farmer, the Works “spiritually and materially in and on the community”, and finally from master-farmer to knight Roseae Crucis. If the community can count “three such knights of the grail, such perfect ones, then what the ancients hoped for and what we all longed for has really happened look out: the Community Roseae Crucis is added brotherhoods in the universal chain of the Great because individuals were able to color the white rose of purity with her heart and soul. " (quoted in.)

Aquarian Age and Esoteric Christianity

The development and realization of an esoteric Christianity arising in the new era of Aquarius brings with it “the awakening from petrification; Peter is replaced by John, the representative of inner abstract spirituality ” . The hallmark of the John man is an “inner Christianity”, without external organization and free from dogmas. Christ and Buddha “were the forerunners of this Aquarius period, which will no longer know a messenger, but only groups that have understood the message of these life givers” . quoted to

Stages of development of the members

Anyone interested could join as a "member" without any obligation. Henk Leene taught again the astrosophy represented by the Rosicrucian Fellowship , like his father once again before Max Heindel's split from the Rosicrucian community. The three “inner stages of development” of the community were: 1. The “journeyman” who strives for the purity of the Cathars within himself, 2. the “master builder” who realizes the principle of truth and thereby becomes a Rosicrucian and 3. the “ Knight Rosae Crucis “, who supports all the work with all-encompassing love and thus reaches the Grail. In the community of Siva, these stages are not ritual initiations, but rather the result of independent inner activity.

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Individual evidence

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  24. ^ Henk Leene, The Seven Churches in Asia, 1973, p. 17
  25. ↑ Henk Leene, Saturn, p. 81
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