Posted on 10/04/2023 4:21:51 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1689, German poet and mystic Quirinus Kuhlmann was roasted in Moscow for heresy. This Silesian millenarian (English Wikipedia entry | German) experienced a mystical conversion and spent his law school hours instead scribbling visionary poetry and devouring visionary texts.
Inflamed with Bohmian fire, I read Bohme with fiery eagerness and capacity. I did not know the Bohmian texts and I knew them the same day. What an admiration (o Jesus!) overcame me when I heard Bohme tell his revelations which I had learned from the universe of nature, with God as my teacher, it were the revelations the first outlines of which I just had begun to delineate in my own works.
-Quoted in Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco
Quirinus’s particular vibe was an end-times kingdom of Jesus thing with the Catholic Church as the Antichrist. He cast about Europe vainly imploring princes to ally — Protestants with Orthodox with Mussulmen — to destroy the papal whore of Babylon. This.......
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Good name for a rapper.
Sounds like he was a really nice guy.....................
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