Lectorium Rosicrucianum
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The Lectorium Rosicrucianum is a new religious movement which considered itself a worldwide school of Esoteric Christianity. It was founded in 1935 by Dutch mystics Jan van Rijckenborgh, his brother Zwier Willem Leene and Catharose de Petri. The school teaches a form of modern Christian Gnosticism which is based upon the ideas and imagery of Rosicrucianism, the beliefs of the Cathars and other forms of religio-mystical thought such as Hermeticism and Alchemy.
Although suppressed by the Nazis during the war, the Lectorium Rosicrucianum now counts about 15,000 members and has branches in countries all over the world including Europe, North America, South America (particularly Brazil), Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.