- The Puritan Diaspora includes the English speaking countries except Ireland, the calvinists the German and Dutch speaking Calvinists and, through Pietism, the Lutherans of the Nordic Countries. The print-mediated public sphere intertwines the histories of these countries.
- Radical Pietist Sects introduced gender equality and gender reform into the London Public Sphere many years before the enlightenment intellectual Mary Wollstonecraft who was a London contemporary of Thomas Paine and William Blake.
- William Blake’s parent’s were members of the Fetter Lane Moravians during the outburst of Sex Radicalism around 1850. Blake was a member of Fetter Lane in the later decades.
- William Blake is a key figure in the English Romantic Anti-Enlightenment.
- Swedenborg was a towering figure in the Print-mediated publics of England and American from 1750-1850. He can be considered the father of intellectual occult spiritualism as well as the “free love” movement. He created the public discourse of a “sexual religion”. He came from Swedish Pietist background was a major enlightenment intellectual who had a mystical rebirth at Fetter Lane.
- Swedenborg was a frequent visitor to the Fetter Lane Chapel during their years of Sex-Radicalism.
- The Romantic-Anti Enlightenment occurred roughly between 1780-1820 in the Puritan Diaspora countries of Germany & England
- I am unsure of the chronology in Northern America, but there were Swedenborgian Free Love communes in the early 1800’s. (see book excerpt)
- The German Anti-Enlightenment came from conservative pietist roots in East Prussia. Kant, Hamann and Herder together produced historical relativism and intellectual anti-modernism. This romantic movement created its own Public Sphere in the ‘Bildungs’ University. This German Public spere dominated the 1800’s. and gave rise to the Left Millenarian sects of the 1900’s.
- John Wesley was an early member of the Fetter Lane Chapel in 1740. He broke away to form the Methodist movement.
- The Methodist movement refashioned christianity in The Yankee North and created millenarian Social Reform movements like Abolishion and Temperance.
The Unity movement: its evolution and spiritual teachings
By Neal Vahle 
