Jean Bricaud

Jean (or Joanny) Bricaud (11 February 1881, Neuville-sur-Ain, Ain – 24 February 1934), also known as Tau Jean II, was a French student of the occult and esoteric matters. Bricaud was heavily involved in the French neo-Gnostic movement. He was consecrated a Gnostic bishop on 21 July 1913 by bishop Louis-Marie-François Giraud.[1] He was the Patriarch of the Église Gnostique Universelle (French for "Universal Gnostic Church") and a central figure in the various lines of the apostolic succession of subsequent Gnostic churches, as well as a spiritual heir of Jules Doinel (Valentinus II). From 1916 he was head of the Ordre Martiniste. He was a friend of the occultists Papus and August Vandekerkhove.

References

1. Ecclesia Gnostica Position Paper Concerning the Thelemite or Crowleyan Gnostic Churches by Stephan A. Hoeller (written in the early 1980s)

External links

• Works by Joanny Bricaud at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Jean Bricaud at the Internet Archive