What is August Vandekerkhove?
{{no sources|date=April 2015}} [[File:Auguste Vandekerkhove.jpg|400px|right|thumb|August Vandekerkhove]] [[File:Logo Cosmosophie.jpg|right|thumb|Seal of the Cosmosophic Movement]] '''August Vandekerkhove''' (15 October 1838 [[Kanegem]] – 24 March 1923 [[Mâcon]]) was a [[Belgians|Belgian]] [[writer]], [[playwright]], [[poet]], [[painter]] and [[inventor]]. He wrote under the [[pseudonym]] S.U. Zanne. Vandekerkhove started a [[Social movement|movement]] he called Cosmosofie (Cosmosophy). He said that Cosmosophy was the opposite of [[Theosophy]]. When he was young he wrote a [[novel]] and three [[play]]s. His literary work was inspired by [[ethics]] and [[psychology]]. Later he moved to [[Scotland]], the [[USA]] and [[France]]. In France he wrote works on [[kabala]], [[esotericism]] and the [[occult]]. He was one of the first writers talking about subjects like [[feminism]] and the Age of [[Aquarius]]. Each year on [[Palm Sunday]] at 5 PM, at the cemetery of Flacé in [[Mâcon]] in France, people come together to remember him. == Publications == === In Dutch language === ==== Novel ==== * Een zomerlief (A Summer Love), (1864) ==== Plays ==== * Een eerlijk man (A Honest Man), (1870) - Reprinted in Dutch in the USA * De vrouwenhater (The woman's hater) (1865) * Freule Laura's laatste liefde (Lady Laura's Last Love) === In French language === ==== Private editions for his disciples at less than 30 copies ==== * Doctrine Secrète, principes et éléments d'astrologie, 554 pages, (1900) * L'Asataruth du Pfar-Isis, (1900) - Reprinted in French in Italy (2004) * Principes et éléments Cosmosophie, (1899-1906) ==== Public editions ==== * Vingt-quatre cours introductoires-préparatoires aux principes et éléments de Cosmosophie, (1909) * Principes et éléments d'Education Cosmosophique, (1924) * Occultisme occidental et ésotérisme oriental, (1927) * Principes et éléments de la Langue Sacrée selon l'Astro-Kabbale d'Al Chami, (1929) * L'Atlantide,(1931) * Lettres des Pays de l'Au-Delà, (1933) {{DEFAULTSORT:Vandekerkhove, August}