Lectorium Rosicrucianum

Emblem of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum (with a dot since 2014).

The Lectorium Rosicrucianum (LR), also the School of the Golden Rose Cross , is an international New Religious Movement founded in the Netherlands in 1945 or 1946 . In contrast, the year of foundation is given differently in the LR's publications as 1915, 1924, 1925 and 1935. Only the replacement of a Dutch member group from the Rosicrucian Fellowship in 1935, which was called Rozekruisers Genootschap , is historically verifiable . The headquarters of the LR, which , according to the theologian Harald Lamprecht , is strictly hierarchical and without democratic elements, is located in Haarlem . The organization is managed by a 13-person international committee. The LR represents the ideological standpoint of the Fellowship with the opposite sign and has been a dualistic Neo-Cathar group since 1954 .

Jan van Rijckenborgh's books are fundamental to the teaching of the judge . It contains elements from the Tübingen Rosicrucian Scriptures , Manichaeism , from the worldview of the medieval Cathars and ancient, early Christian and Gnostic teachings. While the Rosicrucian Fellowship aims at individualization and self-redemption, the LR declares overcoming the self-consciousness in a collectivist orientation to be the central religious goal, which is aimed at through a regulated and largely ascetic life practice. The LR sees itself as a “fighting church on earth”, which maintains a second field of work for deceased members in a subtle area of ​​life ( vacuum of Shamballa ), where the transfiguration process can be completed. From the 1960s onwards, apocalyptic end-time expectations were proclaimed in the LR , according to which ordinary mankind would no longer be able to join the LR from December 2001, which was relativized from 1995 onwards.

In addition to the three German administrations in Calw , Bad Münder and Birnbach, there is a German-speaking administration in Austria and Switzerland. There should be around 12,000 members worldwide, around 2,000 of them in Germany, 600 in Switzerland and 100 in Austria (as of 2013).

Origins

The LR developed from the Dutch study group of the Rosicrucian Fellowship of Max Heindel in a step-by-step replacement process.

Carl Louis Frederik Grasshoff alias Max Heindel (1865-1919)

The Rosicrucian Fellowship

Rudolf Steiner , the later founder of anthroposophy , headed the inner Rosicrucian community of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) between 1905 and 1909 . Against Steiner's will, his German-American student Carl Grasshoff published excerpts of the Rosicrucian teachings under the pseudonym Max Heindel and founded the Rosicrucian Fellowship in the USA in 1909. Before the First World War , a study group of the Rosicrucian Fellowship emerged from the Dutch Theosophical Association , which became the Brothers in 1924 Wim and Jan Leene from Haarlem joined. Further centers were established in Amsterdam, The Hague and Baarn. From 1927 the monthly magazine "Het Rozekruis" was published. In December 1929, the founder and director of the Amsterdam Center, Agatha van Warendorp, had to go to hospital because of an inflammation of the kidneys and the Leenes took over the representation. Upon recovery, the Leenes refused to return the leadership position to Warendorp, and the Rosicrucian Fellowship's instructed headquarters in Oceanside agreed to the change in leadership. In 1933, the Leenes gave up the textile wholesaler they had taken over from their parents for reasons of profitability in order to be able to devote themselves entirely to the fellowship work. In 1933 the "Max Heindel-Stiftung" was founded, presided over by the Leenes and the head of The Hague Center, in order to be able to purchase the real estate used, including the houses on Haarlem's Bakenessergracht, where the world headquarters of the LR is to this day.

Replacement from the Rosicrucian Fellowship

In January 1935, the Haarlem group began to detach itself from the Fellowship headquarters with reference to its own foundation. In a letter to the Fellowship members dated March 27, 1935, they falsely claimed to be the new world headquarters of the Rosicrucian Fellowship:

“The Dutch central office is tasked with saving the internationally broken fellowship from collapse. For every student and examinee it is appropriate to join us without hesitation for the cleaning work to be carried out, which has become possible through the order to the Dutch board of directors through the Order of the Rosicrucian. As a result, the management of esoteric work is temporarily centralized in the Netherlands. "

The world headquarters in Oceanside vigorously opposed these occupation efforts and informed the Dutch members:

"We want all members to know that the Center Hedastraat 36 in Haarlem does NOT represent 'The Rosicrucian Fellowship' in Oceanside in its actions and that it is acting on its own initiative, probably to set up its own movement."

Jan Leene alias Jan van Rijckenborgh (1896–1968)

Henny Stok-Huizer alias Catharose de Petri (1902–1990)

Finally, the Leene brothers were excluded from the Rosicrucian Fellowship and in November 1935 Ms. Heindel complained that the Dutch branch was collecting money for its own temple and that the Heindel books were being reprinted without permission (see: pirated prints ). Jan Leene later also gave substantive reasons for the replacement: in the Rosicrucian movement, which was found in 1925, the name Rosicrucian was only a facade. Only yoga methods were used everywhere , which he did not approve of and the movement had been shaped by negative occultists, whom he described as very sick and incapable of development. In 1935 the statutes were recognized by the Dutch government, which meant legal independence for the former Haarlem branch. After the organizational separation, the Haarlem center retained the old name "Het Rozekruisers Genootschap" (Rosicrucian Cooperative). Nevertheless, Ms. Heindel advised her remaining members not to legally challenge this naming. The "Rozekruisers Genootschap" called itself from 1936 at the same time "Order of the Manicheans" and from 1941 also "Jakob Böhme Society". Wim Leene died in 1938. His brother Jan Leene became the leader of the movement. From 1940 to 1945 the outer school was banned by the German occupying forces. During this time Leene wrote several works under the pseudonyms Jan van Rijckenborgh and John Twine.

The Grail as a symbol of the Cathars

Entrance of the Lombrives grotto in Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains, according to Gadal the Cathar Cathedral .

In France, within the neocatharian movement of Antonin Gadal (1877–1962) and Déodat Roché (1877–1978), the idea spread that the Grail was a symbol of Cathar resistance to Catholicism , a view not shared by scientific historiography becomes. These Grail legends , imagined in the Neo-Cathar milieu, inspired the mysterious activities of Otto Rahn (1904–1939), an SS officer who carried out field research in southern France in the 1930s to track down the Grail supposedly hidden by the Cathars to come, as well as the esoteric spirituality of Jan Leene and his later LR, which Gadal joined after the Second World War. Through these authors, the Grail was anchored in the current esoteric movements in three different updates: a Christian, a neo-pagan and a Gnostic variant.

Antonin Gadal (1871–1962)

Though Gadal struggled to convince others, he believed the Cathars had held meetings in the caves near where he lived and was committed to having them opened to tourists. He reconstructed the Cathar religion in his own way, imagined initiation ceremonies in the caves in his imagination, and created a new religion from them , which he called "Maneism" and wanted to know clearly differentiated from Manichaeism . He also viewed the Cathars as the direct descendants of a French branch of Gnosticism . Between the two world wars, Gadal had claimed to have been inaugurated as the patriarch of the “old Cathar brotherhood”; therefore he is the main heir (English: chief inheritor ) of the Cathar tradition.

Other influences

• Jan and Wim Leene were under the influence of the then well-known reform theologian Arnold Hendrik de Hartog (1869–1938) when they were young. They were also influenced by the writer Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, the works of Jakob Boehme and the teachings of the philosopher Eduard von Hartmann (1842–1906). Eduard von Hartmann introduced the LR catchphrase “ transfiguration ” to esotericism in order to describe the personality change through hypnosis .
• There are also references to the theosophy of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and to Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy . The adoption of anthroposophical ideas, long denied by the judge, is no longer disputed today.

Foundation and development after the Second World War

In 1945 the "Rozekruisers Genootschap" was reorganized under its current name, Lectorium Rosicrucianum , according to other information in 1946. From 1946 two names were used for the group: Lectorium Rosicrucianum and School of the Golden Rosicrucian . The first German conference with around 120 participants took place at Easter 1956.

In the writings of the LR, different dates are given as the founding years:

• December 17, 1915 ("The Coming New Man", Haarlem 1954, p. 173),
• 1924 ("The Gnosis in Current Revelation", Haarlem 1956, p. 18),
• 1924, 1925 and 1935 ("Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosicrucian", Haarlem 1955 and 1970, p. 246/247, p. 252).

The founding date 1924, backdated in the official historiography of the LR, can be found today in various works on religious studies.

The establishment of the first conference venues in the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland

• On November 27, 1945, a plot of land was purchased in Laage Vursche near Bilthoven on which the central conference venue Renova was built.
• On March 30, 1957, the foundation stone of today's main temple in Haarlem was laid.
• On March 8, 1958, the first German conference venue was opened in Calw ( Baden-Württemberg ).
• On August 21, 1965, the 2nd German conference location was completed in Bad Münder near Hanover .
• Starting from Swiss centers in Basel, Zurich, Lausanne, Lenzburg and Thun, a Swiss conference center was opened in Caux in 1978 .
• In 2000, the third German conference location was opened in Birnbach in the Westerwald .

• Conference centers in the Netherlands and Germany
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  Renova conference center in Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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  Christian Rosenkreuz Conference Center in Calw (Black Forest)

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  Van Rijckenborgh Conference Center in Bad Münder (Lower Saxony)

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  Christianopolis conference center in Birnbach (Westerwald)

The three German conference centers are also the seat of an administration that coordinates the local “centers” in 23 cities. After the German reunification , a small center was established in Dresden in 2006 in the new federal states.

International distribution

In 1957 Gadal founded the French branch of the LR, became its first president and associated the LR with the caves and the museum in his home town of Ussat . In addition to the headquarters in Haarlem, centers were established in Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, USA, Poland, Bolivia, Colombia, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and some African countries. The LR has around 12,000 members worldwide, including 4,200 members (including 2,200 students) in Germany (as of 2012), around 1,000 in Switzerland and 200 in Austria (as of 2000).

Incorporation of "Maneism"

Monument "Galaad" in Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains ( Ariège )

In 1946, Rijckenborgh traveled to southern France to study historical and archaeological records on Catharism . There he met in 1948 a key figure of Neo-Catharism , Antonin Gadal, who believed to see in him the "Grand Master" of a mysterious Gnostic brotherhood. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, Gadal had started to explore the caves in the area around Ussat and Tarascon and claimed to have discovered a system of mystical hermetic schools there that goes back to ancient Egypt . In these caves the medieval Cathars were initiated into a state of spiritual perfection in a step-by-step process, from one cave to the next, although he could not provide any substantial evidence for this. For the LR founders, however, Gadal's visions of esoteric Catharism were of great interest and they encouraged their followers to look for their spiritual roots in Gadal's Cathar visions. Rijckenborgh was also enthusiastic about Gadal's private religion, "Maneism", a kind of Christianized Mithraism with ancient Egyptian religious overtones. This imaginary spiritual cult, which was supposedly linked to a southern French Gnostic religion that had angered the church fathers and its imagined Egyptian roots, was assimilated with zeal by Rijckenborgh. Combined with the ideas of Boehme , Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry , the Trobador movement, Catharism and rounded off by Gnosis, a diversified belief system emerged. From then on, the LR founders also called the Lectorium “young Gnostic brotherhood”.

Neo-Catharism

From 1954, the LR founders met regularly in the French spa town of Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains with the elementary school teacher Gadal, who after his retirement dealt with Cathar and local research. Through Gadal's influence, the LR was ideologically significantly changed and organizationally shaped. Gadal was previously a tour guide and mentor of the ariosophist and medievalist Otto Rahn in Languedoc . From Gadal and Rahn theses originate that Catharism a Germanic embossed dualistic heretic movement with ancient Aryan is roots, and the alleged reception strand Cathar Grail - Tibet / Shambala.

Gadal was heavily influenced by the works of Napoléon Peyrat (1809–1881), mostly of the imagination , who provided the Cathars with a politically instrumentalized profile: he stylized the Cathars as freedom fighters in the resistance of the culturally higher level South against barbaric Nordic crusaders. These anecdotes were underlaid with contemporary anti-clericalism and local patriotic influences. Gadal's source of inspiration, Peyrat, adorned the Lombrives grottoes with legends. He was the first to focus on Monteségur as the holy Cathar mountain. Gadal's ideas were published in the book On the Way to the Holy Grail by the LR in the Netherlands. Subsequently, the LR established a connection between Gadal's book and its own origin legend: In 1274 some Cathars managed to escape from the Inquisition to Germany and Holland. With the “Temple of the Spirit” in their luggage they arrived there in the 14th century. One of their direct descendants is said to have been the founding father Christian Rosencreutz . Otto Rahn, whose current level of fame in France stems from the demands made by the French neo-Nazi scene, was identified by the cultural scientist Joscelyn Godwin as the inventor of the legend that the Holy Grail, using weak etymological arguments, unceremoniously with the Cathars and their castle Montségur , which he held for the Grail Castle Munsalvaesche from Eschenbach's epic Parzival , associated. The theses and theories put forward in Rahn's book Crusade Against the Grail (1933), which led him to claim that the Cathar treasure was identical to the Holy Grail , were essentially written by Antonin Gadal and were uncritical by Rahn and ultimately by the LR despite obvious anachronisms accepted. Rahn's interpretations and assertions show many approaches that are difficult to justify and that contradict accepted scientific knowledge, which can be attributed to his careless disregard for historical evidence. In order to “prove” that the Grail is the symbol of the Cathar doctrine and a reference to the highest Cathar mystery Manisola , Rahn referred to analogies to the Buddhist Shambala myth , in which the mani stone of the Chakravartin occurs, which he with the lapis ex coelis (the 'stone from heaven') from Wolfram's epic Grail, while even the latest research has so far not been able to provide any indication that the Cathars had any relation to the Grail. Gadal's archaeological investigations of the caves in the Ariège valley and his research in Languedoc in southern France finally led him to believe that he had come across a mysterious Cathar treasure that he suspected to be in the caves of Sabarthes. He put forward the thesis that the cave system of his place of residence Ussat had been used by the medieval Cathar sect for initiation rites. Gadal viewed the LR as a successor organization linked to the Cathar tradition. To commemorate the symbolic “transfer of the Cathar heritage” to the LR, Gadal had the “Galaad” monument erected on May 5, 1957 in his place of residence in Ussat.

From the mythological complex of topics and the theories of Gadal, the LR constructed a line of reception in order to point out a connection between itself, the Cathars and the Grail myth. This has existed since the beginning of time and would last forever. It is symbolically referred to by the LR as the “Triple Alliance of Light”. Gadal was accepted as the new head of the church of the LR and gave Rijckenborgh the title of Grand Master and Catharose de Petri the title of " Archdeaconess ". In the last years of his life, however, Gadal distanced himself from the LR. The Cathar and Grail theses have led to the development of a profitable pilgrimage and tourism industry in the Ariège department up to the present day . The myth is cultivated with special devotion by the judge. The LR bought some grottos in Ussat and holds some initiation rites in them every year.

Apocalyptic end time expectations

The Cheops pyramid allegedly contains a chronology that predicts the end of the visible work of the LR for the year 2001.

The LR states that it is carrying out a temporary, breaking and building work in order to liberate humanity in a large-scale attempt by the Light Brotherhood. For electromagnetic reasons, this rescue attempt, also known as the harvest period, was only possible within a period of 48 years between 1953 and 2001. The admission of transfigured LR members and the inhabitants of Shamballa into the Universal Kingdom was only possible until December 2001, since the divine and the human field of existence had drifted apart inaccessible. The backward human race would now get entangled in demonism, satanism and insanity with the most terrible consequences and threaten to sink to levels below the dialectic, which life as we know it today would extinguish on earth in seven hundred years at the latest. In order to prevent this fall, the Gnostic Brotherhood of Light will initiate a "hemorrhage of nature" in order to reduce tensions in dialectical humanity through catastrophes, accidents and wars with much bloodshed. If that doesn't work, all of humanity will be liquidated in the most brutal way. Whole continents disappeared . In the 1960s, apocalyptic end-time expectations were suggested in the LR with regard to the year 2001, in which the time of redemption through the LR would expire for humanity. The judge claimed that a chronology hidden in the Cheops pyramid indicated that the “sky ship” of the judge took off in December 2001 and the association would then cease its visible activities.

Rijckenborgh names in his books, without citing sources, the dates from the alleged pyramid chronology relevant for the LR: 4000 BC. Chr., 1924, September 16, 1936, August 20, 1953 and December 2001. The same dates previously appeared in David Davidson's book "The Great Pyramid: Its divine message." All the dates given have historically been contradicted. Egyptologists have shown that the Great Pyramid of Cheops has no chronology. About what happened on August 20, 1953, Rijckenborgh said: "The Holy Spirit began to pour over us." From this he derived the programmatic claim to henceforth the "pure Christian inauguration mystery of the Holy Rose Cross for the new age" represented, by whose method of self-freemasonry all Christian churches and all occult and esoteric currents of the present would be replaced. Furthermore, in 1953 the LR was included in the Gnostic brotherhood chain of the Essenes , Gnostics, Manicheans, Albigensians, Freemasons and the classical Rosicrucians. After "December 2001" it is no longer possible for ordinary mankind to fit into the group of the LR. From 1995 the LR relativized its end-time prophecies, according to which in 2001 only parts of the "inner school" would be removed. In 1963, Rijckenborgh prophesied that the ethereal sphere would become increasingly visible, and that this revolutionary process would be completely over in 20 years at the latest, which, according to Miers, has not yet been fulfilled.

Years of power struggles for leadership

In 1965 Rijckenborgh appointed his son Henk Leene as his successor as Grand Master. Rijckenborgh's closest colleague, Catharose de Petri, and the spiritual leadership did not want to recognize this decision, however, which led to long-term disputes. Until his death, however, Rijckenborgh insisted that there would be no “Grand Master” and enforced his son as Grand Master: This “did not arise from a family policy, but from the express wish of the brotherhood, by which Henk Leene had been prepared for this assignment for years . ”On July 17, 1968, Rijckenborgh died. As a result, the LR experienced its worst crisis to date. It already began to emerge with the authoritarian succession plan of 1965. In 1969 there was a power struggle in the management, in which the members of the LR were also involved. The new Grand Master Henk Leene advocated greater personal responsibility and a more individual design of the members' path to salvation. He also rejected the previous hierarchical leadership principles as too rigid and inflexible. He had a small, inward-looking group in mind that should work more deeply. He also advocated the opening of teaching and no longer understood the organization as esoteric. Catharose de Petri, on the other hand, advocated a tighter, internationally expanding organization. The dispute ended with a schism : in his open letter of resignation from March 26, 1969, Henk Leene complained that he was accused of having connected him with “natural magic and even black magic power” through his contacts with his deceased uncle Wim Leene. The resignation letter could be sent to all LR members and interested parties because the center director in Kassel, Heinz Borkowski, as the sender of the members' magazine Aquarius, had all the addresses and he and the Leene couple left. Catharose de Petri subsequently asserted herself as Grand Master within the LR, although this title is controversial for her. Catharose de Petri appeared as a co-author of several of Rijckenborgh's books only in the new editions.

Attempts at reform, splits and waves of exit

• In 1951/52 the German centers attempted reform. In order to be able to work mentally and organizationally independently of the Dutch management in Haarlem, the “New International Transfigurist School” was established on December 1, 1951, based in Frankfurt a. M. founded. This autonomous reform project failed after about two months and the German groups were again administered centrally from the Netherlands.
• In the late 1960s, shortly before Rijckenborgh's death, a group led by van der Kuyp's long-time student resigned. Van der Kuyp founded a community based in the Netherlands and opened a German branch in Cologne.
• Henk Leene founded the “Community R + C” with around 200 followers, which in 1972 took on the name “ Esoteric Community Sivas ”.
• In 1978 a group of around 40 people split off in the Braunschweig area, led by the Gottschalk couple.
• At the beginning of the 1980s, a group of students led by Joachim Schulz in Freiburg i.Br. from the LR. The group founded the “Institute for Biosophy”, which disbanded ten years later. Joachim Schulz and many of the members of his institute returned to the LR.
• In the 1980s, there was another split in the Ruhr area when the couple who led the Essen Center, along with around 50 members, left.
• In 1980 the LR member Eberhard Gerstmann gave a public lecture on parapsychology and esotericism from the perspective of gnosis, which was picked up by the local press as the dissemination of secret doctrines. The LR regional management interpreted this as undesirable group formation and excluded Gerstmann. Gerstmann then continued his events in the "Esoteric Community Siegen" and began to lead the "Esoteric Community of the Rosicrucian Sivas" on a voluntary basis. Meetings and conferences were held between 1984 and 1993.
• Ernst Orlowski, who had left with Henk Leene at the time, took over a branch of the Esoteric Community of Siva in Berlin , which he continued under the name Herz-Rose-Kreuz-Freunde . After Orlowski's death in 1990, the group partially merged with the Rosicrucian Sivas community, which had meanwhile also become active in Berlin .

Teaching

Alice Bailey

After the Second World War, the LR founders no longer practiced or taught astrology because they no longer expected positive results from it, as they once did during their fellowship membership. Jan van Rijckenborgh and Catharose de Petri were socialized and shaped by the very conservative Dutch Reformed Church , whose orthodox Christian moral doctrine was reflected in their views and statements: life was imagined as dangerous in a simple black and white view, in view on things a distinction was made between impure and pure, and the student was often seen on the verge of absolute corruption and destruction. Sex was frowned upon because it was believed to endanger the spiritual growth of the student, and lust was branded as bad. Rijckenborgh fused the doctrine of the Dutch Reformed Church (which he saw as an "external" church, which as the quintessence allegedly lost the inner doctrine of the Rosicrucian tradition) with the theosophy of Alice Bailey and some neo-Gnostic ideas, which sometimes include an imagined neo Cathar tongues. The LR is of the opinion that Rijckenborgh and de Petri are envoys of a brotherhood in order to continue the "work" of Christian Rosencreutz , a literary figure, independently.

Literary teaching basis

Rijckenborgh's books are the basis of LR teaching to this day. In his and de Petri's books, the entire teaching concept of the judge is published; they are of fundamental and authoritative importance to this day. The concordances published in 1990 and 1997 confirm the canonization of the teaching. Rijckenborgh represented a predominantly neognostic doctrine in his publications. He published the Dutch translations of the originals of the older Rosicrucianism and provided the volumes of the Fama Fraternitatis , the Confessio Fraternitatis and the Chymical Wedding , which were also published in German, with very extensive interpretations and commentaries that belong to the teaching of the LR. For example, he wrote a 400-page commentary on the 23-page edition of the Fama Fraternitatis.

Limited exclusive claim

The members of the LR would consider themselves the heirs of a salvation mystery, as they had realized the group formation required for the transfiguristic path of salvation and had the knowledge to transform the earthly fallen person into a new personality structure. With the collective orientation considered necessary in the LR, there is a limited exclusive claim, according to which only members of a transfiguristic community can come to salvation. There could have been similar “schools of the mind” at other times and in other places, but at present it is not possible “to find this […] radiation of salvation outside the body of the school.” The LR would not offer people initiation, but total initiation Redemption .

Creation of the world, microcosm and macrocosm

Rijckenborgh developed the esoteric-neo-nostic teaching system on the basis of the theosophical evolution model by Heindel. Rijckenborgh, however, turned against Heindel's idea that a development in this world leads to salvation. Instead, he characterized the world, which includes the hereafter, as fundamentally negative, which is why salvation can only be achieved outside of the current reality of life. In this respect, the teaching of the LR is not identical to that of the Rosicrucian Fellowship.

The LR represents the Gnostic teaching of the two "natural orders". On the one hand there is the “divine kingdom of light”, on the other hand the kingdom of “dialectics” as the present field of human existence. It was established as an emergency order after some of the divine creatures acted against the divine plan and therefore fell out of the divine field of life. These “microcosms” would have lost one of three “atoms”. As their replacement, the earthly man acted as a “placeholder”. Every microcosm therefore needs a person for its salvation, who gives himself up for him in order to create a new immortal “personality atom” for his microcosm through the dismantling of his mortal ego personality. This is possible because inside the person (in the right ventricle of the heart) there is still a spirit spark (also called "spirit atom", "seed of Jesus" or "rosebud") from the divine world. The overcoming of the ego-consciousness unless also the central religious goal of the LR.

Like Heindel, Rijckenborgh also took the view that humans have a fourfold corporeality, consisting of physical, etheric , astral and mental bodies . He then combined this image of man with his own views and elements from Kundalini Yoga . This is where the term microcosm comes from , because the human being is in his essence a world on a small scale , also called “ auric breathing field” and “revelation field”. This sevenfold microcosm is an image of the macrocosm.

Doctrine of reincarnation

The common doctrine of reincarnation , according to which the immortal soul reincarnates in the body of another person after death and a stay in heavenly areas, is strongly rejected by the LR. Instead, one takes the view that earthly human beings, together with their subtle bodies, their personality and their soul, die completely. Only the harvest of experience (the karma ) of this and the previous life with their personalities in the “auric being” of his microcosm remain. The karma of an incarnated person is located on the tailbone in the coiled Kundalini line . The microcosm reincarnates about every 700 years until man walks the path of liberation as taught by the LR.

Transfiguration through personality change and endura

The transfiguration process propagated by the LR for the redemption of dialectical people calls for the destruction of one's own ego and the planned destruction of one's own self. To the extent that a person sacrifices himself and his mortal, dialectical personality in his microcosm, a new immortal personality would arise, which is not man himself, since it is of extraterrestrial and extradialectical nature. In the meantime, these two personalities would face each other irreconcilably, which would result in a lot of tension and internal conflicts. With this process, the LR wants to differentiate itself from the split in personality and personality culture, which, according to LR, are no longer properly functioning inner-dialectical ways of salvation. Rijckenborgh developed his Gnostic transfiguration method in the sense of Manichaeism . It is referred to as Endura by the LR , a term from the vocabulary of the medieval Cathars. To get in the mood for the transfiguration process, certain principles should be observed (no meat, no alcohol, no nicotine, etc.). After a certain probationary period, additional commitments must be made, such as leaving churches etc.

Vacuum from Shamballa

LR pupils who would not have reached the goal of the gradual path of transfiguration during their lifetime, but in whom the change of personality in the course of the ego desolation had already brought about an embryonic soul principle, would not go to the afterlife after their death, but to another field of Gnosticism Art, into the "vacuum of Shamballa ". The transfiguration that has begun can be completed there, in that the already latent soul stage develops into a more conscious state as long as the LR still exists with its force field. Should the LR go under, all Shamballa residents would have to reincarnate again. Rijckenborgh described Shamballa at the Silverster Conference in 1967 in Calw as a sphere in the interior of the earth in which eternal darkness reigns. In addition, the “astral sphere of the earth” and two other subterranean spheres play a major role in the LR: Agartha , where day always reigns, and Duad , where day and night alternate. According to an LR introductory brochure, the entire world redemption will be directed by the Brotherhood of Shamballa from the "Heart of the World" in the Central Asian Gobi Desert .

Relationship to traditional Christian teaching

Importance of the Bible

In the LR, the Bible comes only partially into question as a vehicle for revelation because its content has been too strongly falsified in the course of history. The Old Testament is categorically rejected because it is the product of the Creator God ( called " Demiurge " by the LR ) of our lifeworld. The God of the New Testament is diametrically opposed to this demiurge . Individual scriptures from the New Testament are interpreted allegorically and used selectively to confirm one's own “universal teaching”. Convinced that the Bible contained hidden messages, the LR founders studied the esotericism of the Pentateuch , the Gospels and the Revelation of John . From this “Bible decoding” and interpretation they developed a Gnostic teaching which, according to Lamprecht, is very similar to the teaching and worldview of the Cathars. The LR interprets individual scriptural words from the New Testament in a parable and selectively uses them to confirm its own "universal teaching". The life of Jesus would be interpreted as a parable for the individual path of (self) redemption.

Esoteric image of God

Belief in the effectiveness of laws of fate (karma) distinguishes the LR's image of God from the living God of Christianity, who in the Bible in the New Testament can grant forgiveness to people as a personal counterpart. The possibility of repeated earth lives (reincarnation) contradicts both the theological and the ethical foundations of the Jewish as well as the Christian tradition. The LR's “karma concept”, which is not contained in the New Testament, leaves no room for the grace of God and the forgiveness brought about by Christ.

Distance from the Christian faith

The LR considers the Christian faith to be harmful when it comes to the "true" return to the areas that the LR considers to be the original home of man. The Christian faith is assigned the rank of a lower level of knowledge, since it is only oriented towards the beyond, with this world and the hereafter being equated as belonging to the “dialectical world”. Therefore members are urged to leave the church . "The fundamental difference to Christianity is laid out in the gnostic worldview of the LR." The idea of ​​a separation between an otherworldly God and the world as the product of a cosmic accident contradicts the biblical statement that God created the world of his own free will. The death of Jesus on the cross is docetically denied by the LR and has no meaning of salvation. Instead, “self-redemption” is propagated through transfiguration .

Esoteric Christology

The Christology of the LR does not understand Christ as a historical phenomenon, but defines Christ as the highest rational explanation of reality, which as an impersonal electromagnetic force could help to remit man's sins and which could even take away the world. Before that, however, a person has to put down his karma through the lifestyle required by the LR. According to these interpretations, the second coming of Christ has already happened and is currently manifesting itself exclusively in the force field established by the LR group as Christ power. Since Rijckenborgh denied that this impersonal force ever took on a historical manifestation, there is no reference in the LR system to the person of Jesus of Nazareth . The two emissaries of the brotherhood, Rijckenborgh and de Petri, who were voluntarily incarnated, are seen as “messengers of light”.

symbolism

Main emblem

The main emblem used in public consists of the interlocking geometric shapes of the circle, triangle and square. It can be found in various forms in historical and contemporary literature

• In the kabbalistic school chart of Princess Antonia zu Württemberg and Teck , which is located in the Trinity Church in Bad Teinach , the symbol can be found in the upper third surrounded by the so-called upper three Sefirot. The chart was implemented in shape and color by Johann Friedrich Gruber (1620–1681), the painter at the Stuttgart court, from 1652 with the help of Johann Valentin Andreae in the years 1659–1663. It creates a special connection between the Jewish Kabbalah , the Christian message and Rosicrucianism.
• In Arthur Edward Waite's book The real history of the Rosicrucians (1887) one finds the illustration of the "Philosophic Seal of the Society of Rosicrucians", which is used to seal the initiation of Sigismund Bacstrom by Du Chazel FRC on September 12, 1794 .

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  Kabbalistic wall chart 1652

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  Philosophic Seal of the Society of Rosicrucians 1794

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  LR emblem until December 2014

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  LR emblem with a central point since December 2014

In the LR philosophy, the emblem is explained as follows:

“The circle as a primordial symbol stands macrocosmically for the eternal and unknowable spirit of God, the fullness (the pleroma) from which all revelation emerges and which surrounds everything that is revealed. The triangle emerges from the circle, the revealed spirit in its threefold view as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The 'square of the building' arises from the Holy Spirit, the embodiment of the divine idea in the original substance. Circle, triangle and square together are on every level - whether macrocosm, cosmos or microcosm - a universal symbol for the divine creation in its perfect revelation of spirit (circle), soul (triangle) and body (square). So the sign of the unity of circle, triangle and square is also a symbol for the divine human being, who is to reveal himself on the way of the Rosicruc. "

Internal emblem

The internal emblem is created by combining the astrological symbol for the planet Uranus (the letter H contained therein refers to Wilhelm Herschel , the discoverer of the planet) and the zodiac sign Aquarius, symbolized by wavy lines . It symbolizes the work of LR under the sign of Aquarius and Uranus. The five international Aquarius conferences took place under this emblem.

Cross with rose and caduceus

In the temples of the city centers there is a cross with a rose attached to the front wall. In the conference venues, the symbol of the cadaver is also used.

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  Uranus astrological symbol

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  internal emblem - Aquarius and Uranus

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  Cross with rose

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  Caduceus with two wrapping snakes

public relation

For advertising new members public poster campaigns and ads in newspapers and magazines are switched for series of lectures and introductory courses. The LR has so-called centers in many German cities. There, interested parties are regularly offered introductory lectures and a twelve-evenings-extensive introductory course on twelve topics that are always the same, which is read out as a pre-printed text and can then be bought in printed form to convey the LR worldview. After completing the 12 course evenings and discussing questions, a visit to a vestibule temple service is offered and the decision between membership, student application or separation from the school is required. If you want to learn more about the worldview, ideology and goals of the LR after a lecture, you can request 5 information letters. Since 2009 the attendance of "public temple services" has been offered without any further requirements.

organization structure

The LR is categorically counted among the "(neo) Gnostic churches", which refer to Gnostic ideas and often contradict the views of the conventional churches.

Build up as a secret society

According to Karl RH Frick , the LR is an esoteric secret society . The judge keeps its specific teachings secret from outsiders, but does not count in the strict sense of the secret societies because members are publicly recruited. In the “Lexicon of Secret Knowledge”, the LR is counted among the subversive and commercial secret societies, and categorically assigned to the so-called “Dialectical Societies”, which pursue secret goals that are only gradually revealed to the neophytes in the course of membership. These secret goals are partly commercial, partly subversive and “striving to reorganize the world”. The preferred means of dialectical groups are dialectics , exegesis and key words , whereby one's own teaching material is created through the annexation of other teachings, the synthesis of which is valued with the preceding key word “true” , with theses occasionally being “gnostic” or “secret” teachings, as divine revelations , or as "Ancient Wisdom". In addition to the books of Rijckenborgh there are no further “secret teachings” in the LR. The primary teaching contents are not secret as far as they were published in the books of Rijckenborgh, but the texts of the temple services are only read out to the exclusion of the public. The reason given for the hermetic isolation from the public is the allegedly negative influence that interested visitors would exert on an invisible force field claimed by the judge, which could only develop within the group unit of the tight organizational structure. The training courses are seen as an initiation step-by-step path, in which the aim is to go through the teachings of Rijckenborgh through inner developmental steps through ceremonies and rituals up to redemption. Gerald Willms takes the position that practically all secret doctrines play a role in the LR , such as ancient, early Christian, Indian, Chinese and Egyptian secret doctrines. The religious scholar Tobias Churton sums up in his Rosicrucian book in the section about the LR that the time of the spiritual secret societies is over ("spirituelly doctrines cannot be violated, only ignored") because the supposedly hidden house of the Holy Spirit is open to everyone, the will it can be seen.

Strict hierarchy

The LR is centralized and its teaching system includes a gradual spiritual development and initiation path. The respective country managements deploy the center managements. Their mandate is usually extended after one year. Occasionally, however, there are sudden changes in management positions, for example when entire center managements have been completely replaced for reasons that are incomprehensible to members. Because the group unit is absolutely required in the LR liberation doctrine, the leadership has consequences that affect the obedience of the individual and his commitment to the group: It is not allowed to deviate from the fixed rules . At the top of the strict hierarchy are the deceased grandmasters, who would have been immortalized in their last life. However, despite this clearly prominent position of the grandmasters, one tries not to practice a personality cult, since the content of the teaching is the focus and not its mediator. In the early days until his death in 1968, Rijckenborgh was undisputedly responsible for the spiritual and organizational management of the LR. After his death, his son Henk Leene became a grandmaster. In June 1968 the thirteen-person International Spiritual Leadership (ISL) was founded, which has held sole leadership since de Petri's death in 1990 at the latest and whose members include the Dutch entrepreneur Joost Ritman . In the religious hierarchy, preparatory students, trial students, and professing students are prepared in the outer school for the “priestly” group (or ecclesia ) of the inner school that directs the higher school of consciousness . The Ecclesia , the community of the golden head , forms the council of elders in the old Presbyterian tradition .

Fighting Church on Earth

The LR sees itself as the only true universal church whose appearance in the 20th century came about through the God-given descent and the correct orientation of its comrades. The members of the LR contribute to the maintenance and expansion of their “church” with money and gifts. The LR claims to have been accepted into a so-called chain of universal Gnostic brotherhoods on August 20, 1953 . For this purpose, the LR organization allegedly formed a magnetic spherical body with two poles. Their south pole, consisting of the striving, fighting group, or "fighting church on earth", had previously made the breakthrough to their north pole, the so-called vacuum of Shamballa .

Forecourt, outer and inner school

There are two forms of LR membership: the non-binding “forecourt” and the “pupilhood”. “Studentism” describes a training course consisting of seven levels. The hierarchy of the LR secret society differentiates between pupils in the outer and inner schools.

Forecourt

Those who want to join the organization can, after an orientation phase in the context of public events, opt for general membership (forecourt), from which no further obligations arise, or decide to be an active student. The forecourt also includes the youth work, which looks after children and young people up to the age of 18 in four age groups, as joining the LR is only possible from the age of 18. There is the youth conference venue “Noverosa” in Dornspijk / Netherlands.

Outside school

Participation in “preparatory pupilhood” for one to two years, which serves as orientation and orientation, is followed by participation in “trial and confessional pupilhood” to train the participants for the priestly groups of the inner school.

• 1. Preparatory pupilhood and trial pupilhood
• 2. Confessing discipleship

Inner school

Membership in the inner school includes the “Higher Consciousness School” and the “Apostolic Circle” consisting of the 4 levels “Ekklesia”, “Golden Head” and two further immaterial, nameless levels, by which the deceased grandmasters are meant.

• 3. Higher School of Consciousness (HBS)
• 4. Ekklesia (also "priestly band")
• 5. Community of the Golden Head
• 6. Council of Elders
• 7. Grand Master

Grades 3 to 7 form the so-called "inner school". The "Grail Community" was founded from the older members of the Ekklesia, but this is not a separate degree. With each new grade, new spiritual tasks would be added. Temple services of special content are only available to inner school students.

Events, liturgy and cult

The transfiguration process cannot be undertaken individually by a member in home studies and can only be implemented through group units, namely through regular participation in fee-based weekend conferences and other group events of the LR, because the required quantity of stimulating light forces can only be achieved through the common focus of many participants. For this reason, the primary cult practice would consist mainly of reading stagings , the formal temple services and weekend conferences , which the LR students are obliged to attend regularly, while participation in the other community events is expected. Special salvation importance is attached to the regular attendance of the weekend conferences, where up to 600 members from all parts of the country are accommodated and fed twice a month. There are different meetings for the different membership levels. Members of the forecourt are only allowed to take part in events to a limited extent.

Cult acts and liturgy

The “temple services” performed in pairs are formal reading stagings whose liturgical process currently still shows some parallels to the originally church-related customs and the liturgy of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, whereas the LR has not retained much of the originally theosophical teaching content of the Fellowship. Instead, through the inclusion of Gnostic and Albigensic elements in the teaching system, a world-rejecting dualism is represented in the speeches. The lectures are usually opened by a woman with a cultic ritual part consisting of liturgical formulas, meditation and common singing. Then a man reads out a speech. At five-year intervals, LR members visit the Grotte de Lombrives in the south of France , in whose cave complex they sing and hear hymns based on Cathar and Trobador writings.

Consolamentum and Endura

The terms “ Consolamentum ” and “ Endura ” were adopted from the medieval Cathars . The full-fledged followers of this Christian faith movement, called "Perfecti / ae" or "Parfaits", chose to starve ( ritual suicide ) after the sacramental sealing by the "Consolamentum" . The cult term "Endura", which was used for this at the time, is used in the LR, weakened for "I-first inheritance". This is achieved by using the slightest evils from nature, which is regarded as evil, so that existential needs can just be satisfied and elementary life functions can be maintained.

The sacrament of death

In the event of death, a spiritualistic ritual funeral act is performed, which is arranged by the Rosenhof . After a fixed standard text has been read out by a member of the 5th pupil grade, the spirit of the deceased pupil is invoked by name three times during the funeral mass, with the speaker standing in front of the rose cross, looking over the crowd, with raised arms outstretched. The aim is to connect the dead with the otherworldly work area of ​​the LR, which is called the vacuum of Shamballa and is located in the Gobi desert. Cremation is suggested to students.

Ascetic life forms

An ascetic lifestyle is required in many areas of life. The members of the group are advised not to take part in democratic opinion-forming processes and world-improving activities and, in particular, to reject humanism . One is positive about the existence of the state and its legal organs , but rejects one's own participation in it. The mediated path of salvation prohibits the LR student from belonging to political parties and charitable groups. Membership in other occult groups and churches is prohibited, although most of the prohibitions are based on occult contexts:

Diet and clothing

In principle everything earthly is called “dialectic” and rejected in LR. While the hard core of the Cathars, whose successor the LR considers itself to be, consistently chose to starve to death after a ritual spiritual sealing, the "Consolamentum", the LR retained the term "Endura", which was then used for it, but it is used in instead of literature for "first-generation of the ego", for which, in order to maintain the physical body, only the slightest evil has to be selected from all evils of this nature, which is why a vegetarian diet only uses fruits, vegetables, cereal products, herbs, milk and dairy products should contain only a little cheese and butter as well as water and clay.

Meat products are rejected as dangerous because they contain earth-binding lower etheric and driving forces. Eating meat causes different damage depending on its origin: eating fish promotes perversity, horse meat causes hot anger, beef leads to stupidity and quarrels, pork leads to cruelty, rudeness and impudence, mutton promotes falsehood and poultry promotes idiotism . The wearing of leather clothing, fur and feathers must be avoided.

Alcohol and nicotine consumption prevent transfigurism and would cause addicts after death as earthbound ghosts to go to places where they could feast on essential nicotine and alcoholic fumes. Alcoholic beverages should be rejected because they influence the hormone production of the pineal and pituitary gland , which can lead to overshadowing by otherworldly spirits. Nicotine is even more dangerous, as a “Mars narcotic” it can make people dependent on earthbound spirits. Drugs, other than tea and coffee, are taboo. There are warnings against synthetic substances in food and drugs because they make them mineral-like and dehumanize the etheric body.

TV, cinema, selection of literature and print media

Television should be avoided as a considerable danger, because the aura would be damaged by the TV radiation and the program content did not manipulate the subconscious of a student in the sense of the LR. In addition, television consumption has an earth-binding effect, binds astral and deprives ether. There is a warning in front of CRT screens because their emission damages the “Fohat light” in the head. In addition to not watching TV, going to the cinema and reading the newspaper are frowned upon, whereas only reading those esoteric books that are sold by the LR Rosicrucianum is permitted.

sexuality

A suppression of the sex drive is not sought in the LR from the outset. The LR member only has to start overcoming the sex drive from the 2nd degree (“confessing pupilhood”). In the required process of overcoming the sex drive, according to the admission conditions for “professing discipleship”, sexuality is an astral state that must be overcome through soul growth. In this way, sexuality is to be fought gradually, but casually. Once the sex drive has been overcome, the vow of celibacy must be taken because the excess force is then diverted forcibly. In men, for example, the natural overproduction of male sperm is bound at the lower end of the spinal column in order to promote the growth of the occult “superman” from now on by ascending in the Kundalini spinal canal . In his translation of the late Coptic book Pistis Sophia (from the 3rd century) for the LR, Rijckenborgh completely left out chapters 136 to 148 about the sperm gnostics.

Publications

Depending on the language region, the LR publishes the magazine "Pentagram" four to six times a year. It appears in 16 languages. The topics of this magazine are not limited to Rosicrucianism, but include everything that has to do with the Gnosis phenomenon in the broadest sense. In addition, DRP Rosenkreuz-Verlag in Birnbach / Ww. varied Gnostic literature offered, not only by the founders of the school, but also, for example, by Karl von Eckartshausen , Johann Amos Comenius and Jakob Böhme . (See web link DRP )

Interested parties are also offered a free introductory course on the "Philosophy of the Rosicrucian", which is also available as an online seminar.

criticism

Criticism of the doctrine and practice of the LR is mainly voiced by the Evangelical Church in Germany , its sect commissioners and associated bodies such as the Evangelical Central Office for Questions of Worldview or the Working Group for Religious and Worldview Questions . LR dropouts reflect their former membership in books and press reports very critically.

Criticism regarding the teaching

In the handbook Weltanschauungen published in 2015, the position of the judge on Christianity is described as follows: The basic attitude towards other religious organizations is traditionally critical. According to the teaching, the hereafter also belongs to this world as a “mirrored sphere”. Therefore, all religious endeavors or esoteric-magical rites that are located in the earthly-dialectical area could not have any redeeming, but at most a preparatory function. The demarcation resulting from this basic attitude has been interpreted less strictly in recent years than before, and efforts are being made to establish a more open relationship with representatives of other religions.

According to Lamprecht, the Bible is only a starting point for the LR, nothing more. It does not have the normative power by which one could judge the teaching. Biblical statements would be interpreted by the judge in their own Gnostic way , which turns many statements upside down. This does not prevent that Bible passages are eagerly used as alleged evidence for these statements. The reinterpretation would affect the person and work of Jesus Christ as well as prayer. Most modern Rosicrucian movements would understand their teachings as a gradual path from initiation to higher knowledge. This should gradually lead to greater physical, spiritual and moral perfection or even to redemption. In this sense, Christianity is also interpreted as a mystery religion . The Gospels would be understood as allegories for soul-spiritual processes in people, which would only gradually be revealed to those worthy of them. Personal salvation, the return to the Gnostic world of light called transfiguration, must be acquired by the individual himself through rigor and self-discipline. The LR is particularly extreme here, in that it teaches the necessary self-sacrifice, the self-desolation of the human being in order to liberate his microcosm. From Lamprecht's perspective, this is the fundamental error of all the newer Rosicrucian groups.

According to Rüdiger Hauth, the representative for sects and ideological issues of the evangelical church, the LR sees itself as the “only true Christian religion” and considers all churches and free church communities with aggressive intolerance: Christian churches and theology deny the right to exist because Churches, Christians and pastors belong to the "dialectical world" and are part of the evil world. According to the judge, the Christian churches could offer nothing to the searching person because their theology is only pure speculation, deception and Luciferian deception and pastors allegedly work with “religious natural magic” in order to bind the believers permanently to the God of nature. In the Christian counter-draft of the LR, however, there can be no question of an orientation towards the Holy Scriptures, which is why the LR speaks of representing an "esoteric Christianity". However, this is characterized by a perversion of Christian values, since it is in complete contrast to the biblically based Christian doctrine of faith.

In another information document, the teaching of the LR is described as a building with a complex structure that is difficult to grasp. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that a confusing multitude of terms are used for a teaching element. Terms would change from publication to publication. Thus, depending on the work, the divine life principle in man would be called the spirit spark atom, primordial atom, rose of the heart, rosebud, seed of Jesus, pearl of great value, last divine remnant, jewel of the mysteries or jewel in the lotus. On the other hand, there are difficulties in understanding because the teaching is not internally coherent, which is certainly partly due to the fact that it has constantly changed over the past fifty years. Today z. B. treated the idea of ​​transfiguration more carefully.

Criticism regarding the practice

In the EZW texts 71, 160, 175 and 221, the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen (EZW) critically dealt with the LR system, which in its view is oriented towards hierarchical leadership and control, in its absorbing, dependency-promoting structures criticism, individuality and democratic Decision-making are not values. The theologian and EZW speaker Hans-Jürgen Ruppert believes that the LR has distanced itself from the “reform-friendly impulse” of the early Rosicrucians by distancing itself from the “evil world” and therefore considers a classification of the LR as a Rosicrucian community to be questionable . Lamprecht explains that the Rosicrucian adepts, who are becoming more and more powerful and who are gaining more and more power over the universe in increasing self-perfection, differ from the exemplary humble Christian mystic Christian Rosenkreuz , described in the Chymical Wedding .

According to Lamprecht, the disappointments about the absence of the apocalyptic end-time redemption processes expected since the 1960s for 2001 and the relativization and reinterpretation attempts made in this context have not yet been digested and, analogous to the rapture expectations of Jehovah's Witnesses and the New Apostolic Church , which have not come true, have yet to be digested are processed.

In another publication, Lamprecht is on the one hand impressed by the consistency and seriousness with which the members of the LR would try to tread the path to the redemption of their own microcosm. On the other hand, he describes the glaring disparities and inadequacies in the management level repeatedly observed by members. In the case of spiritual leaders and role models in particular, for whom a particularly advanced transfiguration can be assumed in view of the high salvation claim, these would raise the question of whether the desired refinement would be seriously attempted.

Criticism from former members

Former LR members cite the following reasons for their exit : "Extreme social isolation, control systems within the center, the defense against critical inquiries and the ignorance of expressed doubts." Hypnosis is explicitly mentioned as a reason for leaving the temple services: From the membership level higher school of consciousness one is instructed by the center management in the temple services to adopt a certain sitting posture in which one breathes more slowly and falls into monotony. Since there is uncertainty about the reasons why the students, contrary to the freedom of mind promised when joining, are subjected to mind-manipulative hypnosis from a certain level, those previously affected speculate that this would serve to bind the students more tightly to the LR. According to dropouts, the LR stirs up fears, drills members for information courses and works at the meetings and events in Bad Münder with a form of magic that always made those present seem hypnotized. In 2006 the Dutch dropout Elly Sterk published a book about the secret practices and occult backgrounds of the LR after 25 years of membership.

According to the EZW writing from 2012 by the Protestant theologian Harald Lamprecht , the LR has produced more “dropouts” than other New Rosicrucian organizations that reflect their former membership very critically. The EZW has a number of reports from former members of the LR, which describe their way into the LR, the disenchantment that followed, the subsequent process of detachment and the difficulties after the exit. A characteristic of the encounter with the LR doctrine is the hope associated with the new worldview to be able to permanently escape the problems of life. Together with the integration into a new community, this releases an enormous willingness to make sacrifices. With the completed entry, the feeling of belonging to a special elite of pioneers will be reinforced. There is a deeply felt difference between the “world” and life in the community, which affects relationships with former friends or family. To the extent that the world is judged negatively, commitment and efforts to improve it become meaningless. The reported captivating and dependency-promoting structures are generated by piety in terms of achievement and apply in a similar way to other Christian fundamentalist groups: The tightly organized LR and its strictly hierarchical management method use extensive systems to control the students at all organizational levels, allegedly thus not members Irrelevant to be deflected and to protect the force field of the LR from contamination. Democratic co-determination, individuality or criticism are not values ​​in the centrally controlled LR system that is geared towards group unity. Doubts or criticism of the LR doctrine that advance to the management endanger further promotion in the hierarchy. Denounced critics would be removed from all LR offices. The regaining of one's own autonomy in order to be able to stand up for one's convictions and actions again, which is first and lastingly suppressed by captivating group mechanisms, is described as a laborious path threatened by setbacks. The own ability to differentiate must first be strengthened in order to end the profound dependencies that have arisen on the decision-makers.

The reasons for the stressful experiences of the former members are to be found in teaching and the gap between aspiration and reality. Established manipulations, discrepancies, inadequacies, personality cult and power behavior, which should not actually exist, could be explained away and excused for a long time or pushed away and ignored. In addition, the impression of a lack of honesty would arise, since unpopular statements and prophecies that had not come true by the grandmasters were secretly erased from the LR literature without indicating this in new editions, which also circumvented a discussion about the founders' ability to error. Reports from ex-students who have gone through all school levels and who broke their vows of silence to help clear up the secrecy add to the disillusionment. According to this, the judge does not guard any secret knowledge and, contrary to external representations, does not proclaim any ancient, true wisdom. Only the daily ritual obligations would increase. When the replacement from the LR is pending, the fear-mongering that pervades the entire LR literature will be fully activated. That is why those who go through the detachment process are also called “dropouts” because they largely have to get out of the LR thinking system in order to be able to shed the fears that are fomented to stabilize group membership. With dropouts, a very painful inner process can begin to regain mental balance, since the worldview conveyed is no longer compatible with the previous living environment. Inner conflict makes such people lonely; there was a lack of adequate interlocutors. An open conversation with classmates is hardly possible; Inconvenient questions or facts would simply be denied or ignored or suppressed for fear of consequences. Although the LR warned against magical practices in its teachings and clearly demarcated itself from it, it remained attached to magic, since "Gnostic magic" was advocated, especially in the inner school. In the event of an exit, the occult projection of the enemy image would fall back on the judge if the dropout trusted him to take action against critics himself with black magic means.

The LR dropouts from the esoteric community of the Rosicrucian Sivas , who reject the one-sidedness, extreme positions and the sole representation claim of the LR, criticize the extreme gnostic dualism of the LR, since the overemphasis on this teaching sees the danger that humanitarian and social engagement will be massively devalued . Furthermore, the gigantic and labor-wasting effort in LR public relations is criticized, in which new members are recruited with high advertising expenditure, lecture series, advertisements and introductory courses.

Foundations, associations and companies

The content-related work of the judge is supported by several organizations.

Foundations and associations

International Foundation for the Development of the Religious Community Lectorium Rosicrucianum (IDG)

The IDG was founded in 2010 to financially support activities to publicize the teaching of the LR and the sponsorships that result from it.

Rosenkreuz Foundation

The “Rosenkreuz Foundation for the Promotion of Hermetic and Gnostic Thoughts” was founded in March 2007 by the Dutch “Stichting Rozekruis Pers” foundation to support the work of the LR.

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By the end of 2016, the foundation published around 40 paperbacks, mostly with texts from symposia in which scientists, artists and representatives of spiritual currents participated as speakers (anthroposophists, theosophists, Sufis, Freemasons, Buddhists, representatives of the integral movement, the Sri Aurobindo movement , Kabbalah, Protestant and Catholic theologians and always a member of the LR). Some symposia took place in the LR conference centers. Some topics are exemplary: society, the individual and the planet - where to? (2016), Nuclear Processes - Consciousness Processes (2013), Homo sapiens - Quo vadis? Man between genetic compulsion and spiritual freedom (2014), Inspiration and Science (2015), Man and Earth - Paths to an Inner Climate Change (Symposium Osnabrück 2009, Bonn 2010), What is the positive thing about our time? - Origin and Future in the Light of the Present (2012), Artificial Intelligence (2016), The Spirit of the Earth. Humans, animals and plants - relationship and responsibility (2016), dive into the silence - dialogues about Meister Eckhart (2015).

International Spiritual Leadership Foundation, Netherlands

The governing body of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum, the "International Spiritual Leadership" is represented in the Netherlands by the "Stichting Internationale Spirituele Leiding van het Kerkgenootschap Lectorium Rosicrucianum" (German: "Foundation International Spiritual Leadership").

International Foundation Switzerland

The "Foundation for the Promotion of the International Work of the Religious Community Lectorium Rosicrucianum" was entered in the commercial register on November 22nd, 1990; its legal seat is Zurich . According to its own information, it was founded for the purpose of “making the mysteries of the original universal religion known worldwide and connecting mankind with the invisible Church and the fundamental religion, the so-called Disciplina Arcani, through worldwide financial support of the international activities of the religious community Lectorium Rosicrucianum”.

German registered associations

The legal form in Germany is the registered association. In May 1955, a registered association was founded for the first German interested parties and entered in the register of associations at the Hanover District Court. In 1998 the International School of the Golden Rose Cross, Lectorium Rosicrucianum e. V. registered. The association's organs are the board of directors and the general assembly. According to its own statement, the association is financed from donations and membership fees. Fees are also charged for participation in so-called weekend conferences.

Companies

Distance healing center De Rozenhof, Netherlands

The LR operates the distance healing center “De Rozenhof” (German “Der Rosenhof”) in Santpoort , which arose from the occult distance healing department of the Rosicrucian Fellowship during the founding phase due to a dispute about the income. The distance healing center is also the seat of the "International Spiritual Leadership" of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum.

Printer and bookstore “De Rozekruis Pers”, The Netherlands

The printer and bookshop “De Rozekruis Pers” in Haarlem publishes the writings of Rijckenborgh, Petri, Gadal and other authors.

DRP Rosenkreuz Verlag GmbH

The “DRP Rosenkreuz Verlag GmbH” in Birnbach im Westerwald emerged from the German department of the Dutch publisher Rozekruis Pers and sells children's and youth literature as well as books by Rijckenborgh and de Petri and other authors and publishes the two-month magazine “Pentagram”. Since the beginning of 2007 the DRP Rosenkreuz Verlag has been part of the "Rosenkreuz Foundation".

literature

• Tobias Churton : The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians: The World's Most Mysterious Secret Society. Inner Traditions Rochester, Vermont 2009. pp. 509-541. ISBN 978-1-59477-255-9 .
• Christoph Grötzinger: The universal truth of the Golden Rose Cross. Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions, Stuttgart 1966, Information No. 23, ezw-berlin.de (PDF).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Haack : Secret religion of the knowing. Neo-nostic movements . Kreuz, Stuttgart 1966; 7th edition. Munich 1989, ISBN 3-921513-24-3 , pp. 37-43.
• Harald Lamprecht : New Rosicrucians. A manual . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-56549-6 (excerpts books.google.de ), pp. 249–286, [material and additions].
• Harald Lamprecht: The Rosicrucians. Fascination of a myth. Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions, Berlin 2012, EZW -tex No. 221.
• Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of secret knowledge. 3rd updated edition. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-442-12179-5 . (From pp. 249–286 of the lexicon, dozens of cross-references lead to a total of approx. 200 further lexicon entries on the Lectorium Rosicrucianum.)
• Hannelore Schilling: Under the sign of rose and cross. Historical and modern Rosicrucians. Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen, Stuttgart 1977, Information No. 71, ezw-berlin.de (PDF).
• Georg Schmid and Georg Otto Schmid (eds.): Churches, sects, religions . Theological Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 978-3-290-17215-2 .

Dropouts

• Elly Sterk: Uit de school worked. Inwijdingsscholen; waar de hel hemel was called genoemd. Onthulling the secret eighth de Internationale School van de Gouden Rozenkruis. Moria Dordrecht 2006. ISBN 978-90-6659-149-3 .

Web links

Commons : Lectorium Rosicrucianum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• German language website of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum
• Lectorium Rosicrucianum / International School of the Golden Rosenkreuz on the website of the association “INFOREL, Information Religion” in Basel
• The Lectorium Rosicrucianum from the perspective of the Swiss Evangelical Information Center: Churches - Sects - Religions .
• Adrienne Bilitza: In Search of Enlightenment in the Name of the Rose. In: The world . 2nd June 2015.

Individual evidence

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117. ↑ Online seminar “The Rosenkreuz - Symbol for a Spiritual Path of Development” on rosenkreuz.de
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143. ↑ Harald Lamprecht: New Rosicrucians. Göttingen 2004. p. 258.
144. ↑ business entry of distant healing center "De Rozenhof" Anna van Saksenlaan 3-5, 2082BE Santpoort-ZUID / Netherlands in the Dutch production database "www.fbg.nl" in the category Church cooperatives.
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146. ^ Website of the DRP Rosenkreuz Verlag GmbH ; DR webshop website