AD 1500 to 1700

Alchemical transmutation is effected when male and female principles within the individual work to bring about the union of heaven and earth. It seems on one level to be a solitary pursuit. Yet tradition calls for the male alchemist to enlist the help of a female in some instances, in order to provide the complementary energy necessary to the alchemical process....   Beissel entrenched himself in opposition to the traditional family structure by publishing a book denouncing marriage of the flesh, and espousing a life of spiritual virginity... drawing on theosophical ideas that can be found in Boehme and Gichtel, he traces the fall of man to the division of the sexes.

Sect of Saloniki, 

Sabbatean

http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/2010/02/union-and-progress.html

Union and Progress?

Most readers interested in Jewish history know something about the conversos, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews forced to convert to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In recent decades, historians have come to see their story not just as a tragic or heroic one—an affair of Jews forced to give up their faith, or contriving to remain faithful in secret—but as an important episode in the evolution of the modern world.

I, The Truth Daughter Of God Assassinated By The Duplicity Of Satan By The Corruption Of The World
By The Feebleness Of The Flesh
By The Despotism Of Tyranny
By the Indolence of the Priests
By The Malignity Of Politics
By The Superficiality Of Historians
By The Folly of The Wise
By The Stupidity of The People
I Rest Here Within The Mud of The Lie In One Hundred Years The Sun Will See Me Again Greetings O Posterity!
 

The religion of the Britons was one of the most considerable parts of their government; and the druids, who were their priests, possessed great authority among them. Besides ministering at the altar, and directing all religious duties, they presided over the education of youth; they enjoyed an immunity from wars and taxes; they possessed both the civil and criminal jurisdiction; they decided all controversies among states as well as among private persons, and whoever refused to submit to their decree was exposed to the most severe penalties. The sentence of excommunication was pronounced against him: 

Thomas.... 1485 – 28 July 1540) was an English statesman who served as chief minister of King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540. Oliver... 25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658
Manchester later accused Cromwell of recruiting men of "low birth" as officers in the army, to which he replied: "If you choose godly honest men to be captains of horse, honest men will follow them ... I would rather have a plain russet-coated captain who knows what he fights for and loves what he knows than that which you call a gentleman and is nothing else".