19 Saturday Sep 2015
Posted in land
“Diggers and Levellers looked back to the heretical tradition”.
Christopher Hill, Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution
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04 Friday Sep 2015
Posted in magic, spirituality
“The idea that there was a secret traditional wisdom, Egyptian or Hermetic, to be wrung from nature, died very hard”.
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down
05 Wednesday Aug 2015
“It was clearer to Winstanley than to most radicals that the state and its legal institutions existed to hold the lower classes in place”.
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
[Read more about Gerrard Winstanley on the organic radicals website]
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