Jean Bricaud

Jean (or Joanny) Bricaud (February 11, 1881, Neuville-sur-Ain, Ain – February 24, 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 July 21, 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 theoccultists Papus and August Vandekerkhove.

References
1. Ecclesia Gnostica Position Paper Concerning the Thelemite or Crowleyan Gnostic Churches
(http://www.parareligio
n.ch/hoeller.htm) by Stephan A. Hoeller (written in the early 1980s)

External links
Works by Joanny Bricaudat Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Jean Bricaudat Internet Archive

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