Kawwana - Church of the New Aeon

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Klenzestraße Munich: Former temple of the Kawwana - Church of the New Aeon

Kawwana - Church of the New Aeon is an esoteric - Gnostic new religious movement .

history

Its public history began in 1996 with the entry in the register of associations at the Munich District Court and ended on January 6, 2003, when Vicarius Thorwald Dethlefsen, who died in December 2010, declared at the Epiphany event that the church had largely successfully fulfilled its mission and was therefore out of the World Assiah has been transferred to the higher world Briah.

Between 1999 and 2003, under the direction of Vicarius Dethlefsen , the Kawwana Church and around 40 close employees carried out a total of nine semi-public events, seven in Munich and two in Vienna . Between 300 and 900 registered guests and some spontaneous visitors took part. It is estimated that at least 1,000 people joined the Church with the Symmachia, a baptism ritual, and will remain connected to it after 2003.

In 1998 the church built a temple of the Most High God in a Munich backyard on Gärtnerplatz . This was demolished in early summer 2009.

The church's plan to establish a large community center in Munich in an old factory on Plinganserstraße failed due to administrative restrictions.

Traditions and prehistory

The Kabbalah according to Isaac Luria is a main source of the Kawwana Church. Thorwald Dethlefsen said: "I am not a guru , I have a guru." This is Luria, from whom the Kawwana homepage announced at times: "Ari is alive!"

Western esotericism is another source. Dethlefsen worked from 1974 to 1990 as an esoteric author and teacher and as a reincarnation therapist far beyond the German-speaking countries. The belief in reincarnation , the use of symbols , astrology , alchemy , tarot , magic are among the foundations of the church, as is the law of polarity or the principle of resonance.

The myth has always played a major role for Dethlefsen. In 1989 his work " Oedipus , the Riddle Solver" was published, an examination of the concept of myth in its relationship to cult , religion and Greek tragedy . Dethlefsen understands the tragedy as a cult that brings about collective psychotherapy through catharsis . As such, the Kawwana Church is a new myth. Their expressions and dogmas are mythical. Her rituals represent dramatizations of myths. The more abstract-philosophical thinking of esotericism is now receding in favor of mythological personalization. It is no longer said that God is the All-One, the Tao, but on the one hand He is En-Sof, on the other hand he reveals himself as "The Supreme God" in search of his lost "Shekinah". Instead of “good and evil”, the “shadow god Jaldabaoth”, 555 devils and the “tree of death” as antagonists of the “tree of life” are now spoken of.

Dethlefsen's relationship with the Swiss by choice Oskar Rudolf Schlag , who from 1930 became the mouthpiece of the spiritual being A. = Atma Anupadaka, had an influence on the Kawwana Church . It was only after Schlag's death in 1990 that the publication of the Atma protocols began. The medium blow expresses itself there as atma on all questions of esoteric philosophy, v. a. Tarot, number symbolism, eastern wisdom, yoga , Greek myths, initiations. The Chrysaor ritual, the four seasons and the Avatar dogma are particularly clearly based on Schlag as the source of a new revelation.

dogma

Dethlefsen gave a lecture on the Kawwana teaching in 1999/2000 in his “Dogma” trilogy of around twelve hours in total. In doing so, he developed a highly complex system that crystallized in the "eleven pillars":

  1. The Supreme God (He reveals himself, relevant are above all the impulse to the Jews from Abraham to Luria and now the Kawwana Church, as well as the second impulse to the ancient Greek world in myth)
  2. The Shekinah (as the feminine side of God, world, Shekinah light)
  3. The Avatar (as the coming god who goes the fool way)
  4. Magic ("magic is life")
  5. Holy teaching
  6. The four worlds (Assiah, Jetzirah, Briah, Atziluth)
  7. The way back (from Malkuth in Assiah up to Atziluth)
  8. Evil (objective and subjective evil; Yaldabaoth , the death tree)
  9. Light and word (the light side, the tree of life, word is light in other revelation)
  10. The death (decision situation, place, Bardo , possible reincarnation)
  11. The New Aeon ("The Most High came to rule, he came closer to our world than ever before. His son took on the robe of man ...")

ethics

The book "KAWWANA" (2003) contains a note on " Morals " and an ethics of the seven steps or "Transmutationes".

The transmutation ethic is an ethic of responsibility , not an ethic of trade, but an ethic of being. But it transcends all ethics towards mysticism :

  1. Convert greed into joie de vivre
  2. Put fear into rhythm
  3. Change instinct for twofoldness in love
  4. Convert hubris to humility
  5. Convert delusional delusions into wisdom
  6. Change the world into church
  7. Walk in the face of the Most High!

Rituals and sacraments

According to its conception of alchemy , Kabbalah and magic , the Kawwana Church carried out rituals at its large-scale events that could either be enjoyed as a passive spectator or completed as an active adept ( initiation ).

  • "Chrysaor or the unveiling of the Gorgon head" (Oct. 1999, Dec. 1999, Oct. 2000; Holy teaching: Perseus - myth according to Oskar Rudolf Schlag , ritual as a station path through the Kabbalistic tree of life, analogous to the Catholic anointing of the sick )
  • "Dionysikon" (October 1999, December 1999, October 2000; wine festival in the tradition of Dionysos - cult )
  • "Anabasis" (Oct. 1999, Dec. 1999, Oct. 2000; ritual, based on Lurian light mysticism; among other things, a total of nine world religions / denominations and 20 sects are magically treated)
  • “New Year's Eve” 1999/2000 and “Epiphany” on January 6th, 2000 ( the coming of the Avatar (3rd pillar) is initiated at the Millennium , God meets his Shekinah, the Avatar is begotten. Quote: “The Kawwana Church is a nest for the avatar. ")
  • "Seasons cycle": a hard cross to the four Sun festivals anno 2002, each with " Agape " - Sacrament (will be distributed to the banquet a grape, a Dionysus - icon )
    • Spring equinox in Vienna: Birth of the Kawwana Church, the "Aries"
    • Summer solstice in Munich: adulthood, the "Schechinah"
    • Autumn equinox in Vienna: Age and death of the Kawwana Church, Bardo ritual, with "Symmachia"
    • Winter solstice 2002 / Epiphany January 6, 2003: Transfer of the church to Briah (a kind of ascension ), with a salt ritual and Symmachia
  • Symmachia: The word means co-fight.
    • It is about a Kawwana baptism , which initiates the sympathizer to become a church member. The two Symmachia rituals in Vienna and Munich in 2002/2003 were performed by around 1000 people. According to Dethlefsen, an individual Symmachia can be completed after January 6, 2003, so that the number of members of the community may have increased.
    • The central word is a blow quote: "Indeed wam asi - be a sword!" This should not be misunderstood as an invitation to militancy, but to fight against evil in itself or against the evil ( Yaldabaoth Death tree, 8th pillars) .

literature

  • Article Kawwana - the «Church of the New Aeon» by Thorwald Dethlefsen , in: Churches, sects, religions. Religious communities, ideological groups and psycho-organizations in the German-speaking area. A manual, greeted by Oswald Eggenberger. 7., revised. and supplemented edition, ed. by Georg Schmid and Georg Otto Schmid, Theologischer Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-290-17215-5 , pp. 171f.
  • Oskar Rudolf Schlag : The teachings of A. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 1998ff. (laid out in 22 volumes); Vol. 1: Of old and new mysteries ISBN 3-932004-32-9
  • Angelika Koller : Thorwald Dethlefsen, reincarnation therapy and Kawwana. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, öä 2004 ISBN 3-8334-0970-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Bock: Sect is tearing down temples. Esoteric Thorwald Dethlefsen abandons his "Kawwana Church" in Glockenbach . In: Abendzeitung Munich June 25, 2009
  2. ↑ Cf. Georg Schmid, Oswald Eggenberger: Churches, Sects, Religions . Religious communities, ideological groups and psycho-organizations in the German-speaking area: A manual. TVZ, Theologischer Verlag Zurich 2003, ISBN 978-3290172152 , p. 272; Stefan Rademacher: Esotericism . (= Karl E. Grözinger (ed.): Religionen und Weltanschauungen, Vol. 5) Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2009, p. 79.