Talk:Free Spirit

I'm removing the link to the h2g2 article, which is rather shoddy. I mean, one, I don't believe there's any Sufi-Free Spirit connection (search Google for "Free Spirit" Sufism, his is the first site and the only one on the heresy). The furthest Sufism got was Spain, while all reports of Free Spirit occurred north of there. And anyway, the tenets of Sufism are nothing like the ones the author reports for the Free Spirit, which incidentally, are also wrong. They believed in Heaven and Hell, though not Purgatory. And though they believed that All is Divine, it'd be more appropriate to say that Everything is Divine, but some things are Diviner than others. Lastly, Heinrich Suso, though he was a mystic, but one that fiercely denounced Free Spirits on multiple occasions. And the reference to Spinoza, who lived four centuries after the time they're talking about, is just bizarre. And they weren't gnostic. And that whole intro bit about some 'riddle' is nonsense (or at the very least confusing), they didn't think God was partly evil at all. Lord that article was awful, I just had to vent.

All my info, by the way, comes from the Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages, which I saw in a used bookstore and, remembering this page, bought. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.74.177.230 (talk • contribs) .

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