'Gold Tried in the Fire'. The Prophet TheaurauJohn Tany and the English RevolutionRoutledge, 05/12/2016 - 504 من الصفحات This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures. Like its famous predecessor The Cheese and The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, it explores the everyday life and mental world of an extraordinary yet humble figure. Born in Lincolnshire with a family of Cambridgeshire origins, Thomas Totney (1608-1659) was a London puritan, goldsmith and veteran of the Civil War. In November 1649, after fourteen weeks of self-abasement, fasting and prayer, he experienced a profound spiritual transformation. Taking the prophetic name TheaurauJohn Tany and declaring himself 'a Jew of the Tribe of Reuben' descended from Aaron the High Priest, he set about enacting a millenarian mission to restore the Jews to their own land. Inspired prophetic gestures followed as Tany took to living in a tent, preaching in the parks and fields around London. He gathered a handful of followers and, in the week that Cromwell was offered the crown, infamously burned his bible and attacked Parliament with sword drawn. In the summer of 1656 he set sail from the Kentish coast, perhaps with some disciples in tow, bound for Jerusalem. He found his way to Holland, perhaps there to gather the Jews of Amsterdam. Some three years later, now calling himself Ram Johoram, Tany was reported lost, drowned after taking passage in a ship from Brielle bound for London. During his prophetic phase Tany wrote a number of remarkable but elusive works that are unlike anything else in the English language. His sources were varied, although they seem to have included almanacs, popular prophecies and legal treatises, as well as scriptural and extra-canonical texts, and the writings of the German mystic Jacob Boehme. Indeed, Tany's writings embrace currents of magic and mysticism, alchemy and astrology, numerology and angelology, Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, Hermeticism and Christian Kabbalah - a ferment of ideas that fused in a millenarian yearning for the hoped for |
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الصفحة 1583
... April 1626 he was bound as an apprentice in London to a fishmonger but was not taught their trade. Instead he received instruction in his master's adopted profession, that of goldsmith. On receiving his freedom he married a daughter of ...
... April 1626 he was bound as an apprentice in London to a fishmonger but was not taught their trade. Instead he received instruction in his master's adopted profession, that of goldsmith. On receiving his freedom he married a daughter of ...
الصفحة 1585
... April 1650). It is likely that Captain Robert Norwood, a wealthy London merchant, paid for its printing. In early September 1650 Tany was at Bradfield, Berkshire at the same time as William Everard, one-time leader of the Diggers. There ...
... April 1650). It is likely that Captain Robert Norwood, a wealthy London merchant, paid for its printing. In early September 1650 Tany was at Bradfield, Berkshire at the same time as William Everard, one-time leader of the Diggers. There ...
الصفحة 1587
... April 1654), Tany addressed a millenarian epistle 'Unto his Brethren the QUAKERS scornfully so called, who ARE the Children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; who ARE circumcised in Heart'. He saluted them as descendants of the Jewish race ...
... April 1654), Tany addressed a millenarian epistle 'Unto his Brethren the QUAKERS scornfully so called, who ARE the Children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; who ARE circumcised in Heart'. He saluted them as descendants of the Jewish race ...
الصفحة 1611
... April 1626 John Totney witnessed his elder brother draw up his will. The following month one of his younger sons, John, died and was buried in Little Shelford.36 Thomas though, did not remain with the family in Cambridgeshire. His ...
... April 1626 John Totney witnessed his elder brother draw up his will. The following month one of his younger sons, John, died and was buried in Little Shelford.36 Thomas though, did not remain with the family in Cambridgeshire. His ...
الصفحة 1613
... Totney , however , was not taught the secrets of the Fishmongers . Instead he received instruction in his master's adopted profession – that of goldsmith.47 The Goldsmiths On Monday , 29 April 1633 at the Fishmongers ' The Goldsmiths.
... Totney , however , was not taught the secrets of the Fishmongers . Instead he received instruction in his master's adopted profession – that of goldsmith.47 The Goldsmiths On Monday , 29 April 1633 at the Fishmongers ' The Goldsmiths.
المحتوى
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1603 | |
1623 | |
The wilderness of | |
Birth of the Prophet | |
TheaurauJohn | |
Genealogy of the High Priest | |
Hell | |
Canonical and extracanonical sources | |
Son of the morning stars | |
The book of Theosologi according to TheaurauJohn | |
To your tents O Israel | |
The grand idols of England | |
A third great and terrible fire | |
Gold Tried in the Fire | |
Bibliography | |
Coming forth in glory | |
The prophet outcast | |
The Muggletonians | |
Theauroam Tannijahhh | |
Index | |
Index of names | |
Index of places | |
Index of signs | |
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Abiezer Coppe Amsterdam angels appears April Aurora Baxter Behmenist Bible body Boehme's Book of Enoch Cambridge Cambridgeshire century Charles Christ Christian church claimed Coppe Court declared Denison divine doctrine Dury Earl earth England English Epistle Epitah Essex father fire Genesis George Gerrard Winstanley godly Goldsmiths Gospel Greek hath heaven Hebrew Henry Hermes Hermes Trismegistus High Priest holy Jacob Boehme Jesus Jewish Jews Johannes John Pordage John Totney Kabbalah Kabbalistic Katherine Creechurch Kett King Latin letters light Lilburne Little Shelford Lodowick Muggleton London Lord Menasseh ben Israel Mercurius mystic Nations Right Oxford parish Parliament Pordage printed prophecy prophet puritan Quakers Ranter Reeve Revelation Richard Robert Norwood Scripture Second ship money soul South Hykeham Spirit Tany Tany's Testament TheaurauJohn Tany Theous Ori Apokolipikal Theous-Ori things Thomas Totney Totney's trans translation treatise tribes unto William Winstanley word writings