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[65] Clarendon Press, 1921. [66] _The Witch-Cult in Western Europe_, p. 16. It is true that the Brethren of the Free Spirit, anarchists, who vaunted the Adamite heresy, in the Thirteenth century, went to the stake with pæans of joy. But they were probably drugged. J. L. Mosheim, _Ecclesiastical History_. London. 1819. III. p. 278. _sqq._ The Adamites were a licentious sect who called their church Paradise and worshipped in a state of stark nudity. They were Gnostics and claimed complete emancipation from the moral law. They lived in shameful communism. Bohemian Adamites existed as late as 1849. In Russia the _teleschi_, a branch of the sect known as the “Divine Men,” performed their religious rites in a state of nature, following the example, as they asserted, of Adam and Eve in Paradise. These assemblies were wont to end in promiscuous debauchery. [67] _Idem._ p. 161. [68] _Witch-Cult in Western Europe_, p. 161. [69] _Additional Notices of Major Weir and his Sister_; Sinclar’s _Satan’s Invisible World_. (Reprint. 1875). [70] _Criminal Trials_, 1536-1784; Hugo Arnot, 4to, 1785. [71] _Ravillac Rediuius_, Dr. George Hickes, 4to, 1678. [72] Iubemus namque, auctores quidem et principes, una cum abominandis scripturis eorum seueriori pœnæ subiici, ita ut flammeis ignibus exurantur. Baronius, 287, 4. [73] Scio multos [Proconsules] et ad bestias damnasse sacrilegos, nonnullos etiam uiuos exussisse. _Lex Romana Visigothorum nouella_,