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Bookmark or Share- Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alumbrados.The most famous of the heretical Spanish sects were the alumbrados, a small group of intellectuals "illuminated by the Holy Spirit" who, among other ideas, espoused a search for a more internal religion marked by dejamiento, the complete submission of the self to God.
- Illuminati (Alumbrados) | Catholic Answers EncyclopediaIlluminati (ALUMBRADOS), the name assumed by some false mystics who appeared in Spain in the sixteenth century and claimed to have direct intercourse with God. They held that the human soul can reach such a degree of perfection that it contemplates even in the present life the essence of God and comprehends the mystery of the Trinity .
- Alumbrados - WikipediaThe alumbrados (Spanish pronunciation: [alumˈbɾaðos], illuminated), also called the illuminati, were the practitioners of a mystical form of Christianity in the Crown of Castile during the 15th–16th centuries.
- Alumbrados (Illuminati) - Encyclopedia.comalumbrados (illuminati) Name given to the adherents of a Spanish pseudo-mysticism of the 16th century and deriving from their claim to act always under the immediate illumination of the Holy Spirit .
- The Spanish Alumbrados: Origin of the Term ‘Illuminati’They were an off-shoot of the Camisards (French Protestant militants) of the Bas-Languedoc and Cévennes regions, from circa 1722-1794. The Alumbrados were first recorded in 1492 Spain, and had three edicts issued against them by the Catholic Inquisition.
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