Golden Rosycross

The Golden Rosycross is a modern Spiritual School in continuation of the age old tradition of Mystery Schools.

The modern Rosycross
Man's deepest and most genuine yearning is for Light; the light of true knowledge or Gnosis. This yearning upheaves us above any other living being and at the same time causes a feeling of uncomplete joy derived from the world we were born in. Through his yearning for light, man becomes a seeker.
This Spiritual School is supported by a community of people for whom the renewed development of the inner being is the foremost object in their lives.
Their inner self is aimed at the rebirth of the soul, at making it possible for the Divine Principle in the heart to re-awaken.
In this focussed endeavour the Rosicrucian’s actions are no longer self-centred but centred on the Divine Principle – also called the Spirit Spark Atom - within him or her.

TEACHINGS AND PURPOSE

The point of departure is that everyone’s Divine Nucleus forms an integral part of the microcosm, man’s spiritual structure.
Those who make this Divine Nucleus the leading principle in their lives are at the dawn of a drastic inner process: the transfiguration.
The present personality will then gradually make room for a new personality.
This new personality will no longer be nourished by earthly energies but by original cosmic forces.

In the course of this process of transfiguration the personality of the “old” human entity merges with a spiritual consciousness, which reconnects it with the original Divine Life.

HISTORY

In 1924 the brothers Zwier W, Leene (1882-1938) and Jan Leene (1896-1968) joined the then Rosicrucian Society.
It was the Dutch branch of the Rosicrucian Fellowship founded by Max Heindel in 1909.

In 1929 the brothers Leene assumed the leadership of the Rosicrucian Society.
One year later Mrs. Henny Stok-Huizer (1902-1990) joined them.
This was the beginning of a spiritual quest that in 1935 led to the fact that the three went on independently of the Rosicrucian Fellowship.
Z. W. Leene died in 1938.
After that Mrs. Stok-Huizer and J. Leene continued the work together.
They would publish many works, which were issued under their pseudonyms
Jan van Rijckenborgh and Catharose de Petri.

In 1945 the society decided on the name Lectorium Rosicrucianum.
It has manifested itself as a Gnostic Spiritual School ever since.
When Jan van Rijckenborgh died in 1968 Catharose de Petri took on the leadership.
Since her decease in 1990 there is a collective leadership:
the International Spiritual Directorate,
supported by local directorates and working groups in the various countries.

“SCHOOL”

The Spiritual School does not have teachers and pupils as is usual in schools.
Nor is it aiming at the acquisition of knowledge or skills so as to qualify for social advancement.
The teachings of the Lectorium as “school” are based on an inner Christianity in accordance with which man is autonomous and responsible for the highest spiritual principle within him.
True to the tradition of Gnostic thought men and women are working together in the School on the basis of equivalence.

Everyone who participates in the Spiritual School is a pupil-Rosicrucian.
The School holds true that between the person who strives after soul consciousness and the Universal Teachings there should be no one else.
The knowledge and the insight one acquires well up from the Divine core principle of those who walk the pupil’s Path.
This principle is the pupil-Rosicrucian’s inner teacher during the process of the soul’s rebirth.


The Lectorium Rosicrucianum helps seekers to give form and direction to this quest and create the conditions necessary for inner silence to reach true fulfillment. It opens its doors and conference centers to give the people interested, its members and pupils the opportunity to meet.