Literary Sources/Tradition: Freethinkers

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Freethinkers, the Modern Skeptics

Freethinkers, personages who pose themselves in our day as strong minds and who have all the doctrines of the heretics of whom we have just spoken. Related Posts:Mythological Anatomy: The Hidden Vocabulary of the…Zincalis, an Early Term for the Romani in Spain and…Zodiac, Celestial Division and Symbolic System…Zoroaster, Prophet of Ahura Mazda and Figure of…

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Libertines, the Freethinkers of Flanders

Libertines, fanatics who rose up in Flanders in the middle of the sixteenth century and who spread to France, where they had as their leader a Picard tailor named Quintin. They professed exactly the pantheism of the philosophers of our day; and the German dreamers copy them. They regarded paradise and hell as illusions and … Read more