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	Brethren of the Free Spirit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brethren of the Free Spirit (Brüder und Schwestern des Freien Geistes) was a medieval heretical pantheistic movement.
		The beginnings of medieval pantheistic Christian theology lie in the early 13th century, with theologians at Paris such as David of Dinant and Amalric of Bena (died 1207), as well as Ortlieb of Strassburg and was later mixed with the millenarist theories of Gioacchino da Fiore.
		Robert Lerner The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages, Berkeley, 1972.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brethren_of_the_Free_Spirit (499 words)

	Church of God:Literature: Holy Spirit
		Free love is not confined to any one class of people; young and old, married and unmarried, rich and poor, and people in almost every walk of life have by it been deceived and led astray.
		Thus a spirit of free love encroached and secreted in the two most frequent walks of life, society and religion, year after year gnaws away at the vitals of true love and virtue, and destroys many precious souls that are ignorant of its devices.
		When a person has been captured by the spirit of free love one of four things generally occurs; the spirit and doctrine are renounced and deliverance is gained, prostitution is chosen, insanity ensues, or the despondent soul gives way to suicide.
	www.churchofgodcarmichael.org /holyspirit/HS40.html (1817 words)

	The Heresy of the Free Spirit
		During their interrogation accusations of promiscuity portrayed the Free Spirit as having an eroticism which was a positive expression of spiritual emancipation, very much in the ethic of 'free love' in the twentieth century.
		The Brethren of the Free Spirit did not hesitate to say: 'God is all that is', 'God is in every stone and in each limb of the human body as surely as in the Eucharistic bread', 'Every created thing is divine.' At the same time they took over Plotinus' own interpretation of this pantheism.
		It fills all things.' For the Brethren of the Free Spirit the soul was not merely destined to be reabsorbed into God on the death of the body; in its essence it had itself been divine from all eternity and was still potentially divine even whilst inhabiting a human body.
	www.dhushara.com /book/consum/free.htm (5277 words)

	The Brethren of the Free Spirit: a medieval heresy. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Brethren of the Free Spirit - divine amorality.
		Later followers of the Free Spirit took the same principles even further, saying that for all those who realized their identity with God, any action whatsoever was permitted, including theft, rape, incest and murder.
		They say that the Holy Spirit, incarnate in them, revealed all things to the, and this revelation was no other than the resurrection of the dead; whence they declare that they themselves are now risen from the dead.
	members.aol.com /pantheism0/freespir.htm (1344 words)

	Communalism (2) (Rexroth)
		The Brethren of the Free Spirit did not set themselves up as an organized movement but functioned as a diffused body of esoterics, content to operate within the Church and the movement of lay mystical communities.
		The Brethren of the Free Spirit seem to have actually indulged in such practices; the testimony is unanimous and this aspect is always central.
		It was as though the Church were developing antibodies as orthodox as prolific to combat the infection of the Brethren of the Free Spirit.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/communalism2.htm (12725 words)

	Heresy of the Free Spirit
		Free Spirits believed that they could attain union with God on earth, but they thought that they could only reach this state by means of bodily austerities and spiritual abnegation and that attainment of the state resulted in detachment from daily concerns rather than in radical engagement in them.
		Free Spirits hoped to achieve this through imitating the apostolic life and reaching union with God, two goals that dominated the spirituality of the High and later Middle Ages.
		Free Spirits, like the hippies, hoped to quicken the life of the "interior" rather than the "exterior" man and while some went preaching, others were sedentary and might have been entirely passive.
	www.dhushara.com /book/consum/gnos/lerner.htm (14378 words)

	Is God Only a Spirit?
		That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
		Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
		The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together.
	www.fairlds.org /Bible/Is_God_Only_a_Spirit.html (1639 words)

	The Year 2000 - Mises Institute
		The second stage, the age of the New Testament, was the age of forgiveness, and was governed by God the Son.
		During the 15th century, in Bohemia, the "Taborites" (Tabor or the Mount of Olives being where Jesus ascended to Heaven and where he was expected to reappear) proceeded to impose their idea of communism onto a village that they took over.
		The place was characterized by filth, recurrent outbreaks of hepatitis, and violence, and was closed in 1973 when its benefactor sold the property and evicted the residents.
	www.mises.org /(S(gkn4ww45qkkw1b55dcoq3c55))/story/121 (2970 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		ANARCHISM [anarchism] [Gr.,=having no government], theory that equality and justice are to be sought through the abolition of the state and the substitution of free agreements between individuals.
		In the Middle Ages the anarchist tradition was closely linked to utopian, millenarian religious movements such as the Brethren of the Free Spirit of the 13th cent.
		The philosophy of modern political anarchism was outlined in the 18th and 19th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:anarchis (394 words)

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		The brethren used to declare that once, having been absent many hours from the priory, he was at last found in this place, rapt in ecstacy and surrounded by a brilliant aura of divine light-a legend which closely resembles many similar stories in the lives of the saints.
		And this is a consenting and turning of the spirit from God to some creaturely thing; it is the unchaste work of the body contrary to the dispensation of Holy Church; it is a sensual dwelling of the heart upon the taste or enjoyment of some creature, whatsoever it be.
		In this unity, the soul is called "spirit." The third unity which is in us by nature is the source of all the bodily powers, in the unity of the heart; origin and beginning of the bodily life.
	www.ewtn.com /library/SPIRIT/ADORN.TXT (20296 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294.
		From these statements the conclusion is to be drawn that Amaury and his followers insisted upon the liberty of the Spirit working independently of outer rites and dwelling in the heart.
		Amaury absorbed Joachism, for he speaks of three ages, the ages of the Father and the Son, and the age of the Spirit, which was the last age, had begun in Amaury’s time, and would continue to the consummation of all things.
		So Preger, I. 212, on the basis of the "Anonymous of Passau." For the ninety-seven errors ascribed to the Brethren of the Free Spirit, see Preger, I. 461-469, and Hauck, in Herzog, I. The synod of Paris, which condemned the Amaurians, also condemned David of Dinant, and ordered one of his works, the Quarternuli, burnt.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc5.ii.xii.v.html?bcb=0 (1029 words)

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		She was being accused of teaching the Free Spirit heresy, but it is interesting that what was not mentioned in the sketchy account of her trial is that she met in secret with known adherents of the Free Spirit heresy in these towns.
		However, the Free Spirit movement has been said to be a popular reinstatement of the rule of Saint Francis, the adoption of the mendicant ideal as the way to holiness.
		The charge that Free Spirits believed that if Love rules you, there is no sin in anything you do out of love, whether sexual or whatever, is most likely a figment of a fearful imagination.
	www.thoughtsandplaces.org /journey2003/Aftertravelreview.htm (7565 words)

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		Many people may have had an experience like that of the little girl who heard the Holy Ghost (as the Holy Spirit is sometimes called) mentioned in church from time to time, but so vaguely and infrequently she could only guess what sort of ghost this might be.
		We receive, as it were, a drink of the Holy Spirit when we are saved, but when we are baptized in the Spirit, it is as if that initial drink becomes an ocean that completely surrounds us.
		Just as the indwelling Spirit that Christians receive when they are saved reproduces the life of Jesus, so the outpoured, or baptizing, Spirit reproduces the ministry of Jesus, including miracles and healings.
	www.cbn.com /spirituallife/CBNTeachingSheets/Gifts_of_the_Spirit.asp (1860 words)

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		Free Spirit "heresy" flourished among middle- and upper-middle-class women.
		Brethren of the Free Spirit, a little-understood group which he claims can be comprehended in view of the historical record of the
		Sin is imaginary, and until you wallow in sin you cannot be free from it.
	www.bu.edu /mille/scholarship/bibliography/bibliosubjects/177.html (694 words)

	Polity for Free Ministry
		The Committee recommends that the newly adopted polity on free ministry be inserted as a new section titled "Plural Non-Salaried Ministry" in the Ministry chapter of the Church of tile Brethren Manual of Organization and Polity.
		The calling process in "free ministry" churches traditionally has been done to meet the specific ministry needs of the calling congregation, and it is affirmed.
		The "free ministry" congregations are encouraged to periodically (every 3-5 years) call persons with demonstrated gifts and spiritual maturity, even when a local need does not exist, in order to make them available for the leadership pool of the wider church.
	www.brethren.org /ac/ac_statements/98FreeMinistry.htm (2377 words)

	Perfection, Perfectionism
		He rejected the concept of original sin and asserted that persons are born with the free capacity to perfect themselves or corrupt themselves as they choose.
		Fox believed that as a result of the new birth into Christ by the Spirit the believer was free from actual sinning, which he defined as transgressing the law of God, and is thus perfect in obedience.
		In the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries the Albigensian heresy contended that the human spirit was capable of freeing itself from the flesh in order to become one with God.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/perfecti.htm (3552 words)

	The Movement of the Free Spirit
		There is only the movement of the Free Spirit; it is "among," "supported" or "propagated by" certain groups and individuals at certain times and places.
		The movement of the Free Spirit is thus an instance of anti-mercantilist class struggle, not an instance of anti-clerical heresy against the Church.
		In this effort, the Church was helped by the tricky designation "Free Spirit," which paradoxically "reflected a wish to reduce things to spiritual terms -- which is of course the essence of all religion," as Vaneigem points out.
	www.notbored.org /fatherraoul.html (949 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume VI: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1294-1517.
		Their name was derived from John 16:15, "Henceforth I call you not servants, but I have called you friends." Their practices did not involve a breach with the Church and its ordinances.
		The little treatise, called the German Theology, at the outset marks the difference between the Friends of God and the false, free spirits, especially the Beghards.
		The Brethren of the Free Spirit resist this merciful procedure.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc6.ii.v.vi.html?bcb=0 (1323 words)

	Free Will from Luther to the Brethren
		The Brethren, from their beginning, denied this fundamental aspect of the Lutheran and Reformed confessions and affirmed the role of free will in the economy of human salvation.
		The Brethren also departed from Luther and Zwingli in their assertion that faith is an act of human will.(18) Grebel believed that "faith is demanded of all who are to be saved,"(19) but, unlike Luther and Zwingli, assumed that faith is a conscious choice, a choice embodied in the sacrament of believers' baptism.
		The Brethren demonstrated their understanding of free will in their concept of a church in which voluntary assent is essential.
	history.hanover.edu /hhr/95/hhr95_2.html (2323 words)

	Ant Viros Free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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		Amen will, that God is free to punish or to refrain Poterat nos Deus verbo ant nutu redimere, nisi aliter commotion, sufficiently skilled "AEre ciere viros, Martemque accendere cantu English Translation of Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline.
		Such has been For the Brethren of the Free Spirit, Fredericq: Corpus doc the Brethren of the Free Spirit and the Fraticelli as 1438, in his Formicarius or Ant-Industry.
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	Zenarchery.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From the confession of John of Brunn, member of the Brethren of the Free Spirit, extracted in 1335 by the Prague inquisitore Gallus of Novo Castro:
		The Brethren of the Free Spirit comprise an odd sort of secret history of European Christianity from medieval times through the Renaissance up to the 18th century or so, one which should be much more well-known than it is.
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	Meister Eckhart: a medieval Christian mystic.
		Brethren of the Free Spirit in Cologne around this same time.
		God is pure oneness, being free of any accretive multiplicity of distinction even at a conceptual level.
		There, in that most inward place, where everyone is a stranger, the light is satisfied, and there it is more inward than it is in itself, for this ground is a simple stillness which is immovable in itself.
	members.aol.com /Heraklit1/eckhart.htm (1247 words)

	My Brethren - Ministry - The China Episode
		which, though not identified with ‘open’ brethren, was governed by their principles in that anyone claiming to be a believer was allowed to break bread without regard to the religious and other associations in which he was involved.
		You have alluded in your letter to being guided by the Holy Spirit, but He is the Spirit of truth, and those who are guided by Him are marked by ways of truth.
		As he was free on the steamer he made known many things as to his belief and conditions generally in the meetings in China.
	www.mybrethren.org /history/hy29chin.htm (6592 words)

	The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit [Free Republic]
		The work of the Spirit consists, first, in awakening powers already possessed by man, but which were asleep and out of order; and in the next place in putting into man powers which he had not before.
		Now, the first work of the Spirit is to put these wheels in the right place, to fit the wheels upon the axles, to put the right axle to the right wheel, then to put wheel to wheel, so that they may act upon each other.
		I have constantly made it my prayer that I might be guided by the Spirit even in the smallest and least important parts of the service; for you cannot tell but that the salvation of a soul may depend upon the reading of a hymn, or upon the selection of a chapter.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b8b15991f10.htm (10663 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Free Spirit adepts were particularly interested in indulging in sexual promiscuity because sexual transgressions such as homosexuality, fornication and adultery went directly against the grain of the Roman Catholic ideals of celibacy and chastity.
		In the later Middle Ages, this type of movement was exemplified among the flagellants, the Brethren of the Free Spirit, Taborites and followers of Thomas Muntzer, the militant wing of the Anabaptists, and later the Ranters in England.
		Often, these movements incorporated Joachimite speculations about a coming Age of the Spirit, mystical doctrines that made one was free to sin as one pleased (Free Spirit), and communistic ideals that involved belief in a Golden Age in which all men had lived as brothers with all things in common.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Blessed John Ruysbroeck
		At that time the Brethren of the Free Spirit were causing considerable trouble in the Netherlands, and one of them, a woman named Bloemardinne, was particularly active in Brussels, propagating her false tenets chiefly by means of popular pamphlets.
		And through Groote, Ruysbroeck's influence helped to mould the spirit of the Windesheim School, which in the next generation found its most famous exponent in Thomas a Kempis.
		He loved to wander and meditate in the solitude of the forest adjoining the cloister; he was accustomed to carry a tablet with him, and on this to jot down his thoughts as he felt inspired so to do.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13280c.htm (1313 words)

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