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SECTION III — SLIDES AND RESEARCH ON BACON AND
AMERICA
by Linda S. Schrigner
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SECTION III — SLIDES AND RESEARCH ON BACON AND
AMERICA
by Linda S. Schrigner
57a
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Subsequently at Oxford, the young Penn became
a bit of a rebel rouser, for those times. Among other social improprieties
based upon his beliefs, he refused to take off his hat in the presence
of King Charles II. He was arrested several times for preaching Quaker
beliefs in public, and was usually released immediately because of his
father's prominence as the Navy Admiral William Penn (senior). However,
Penn spent four arrests in the Tower of London.
Penn spent some time in France getting to know the people and the life of the French court, then served in the English Army during the Dutch war, and later helped manage an estate of his father's in Ireland. At some time, he came into contact with German Rosicrucian Jacob Boehme's teachings and the Rosicrucians who introduced him into the deeper mystical and metaphysical studies. Again as Dr. Palo writes: "Penn had a more than passing interest in mysticism and the Rosae Crucis. He referred to Jacob Boehme as his master in the art and law of divine wisdom."In England the Quaker faith, for which Penn continued to be known publicly later in America, was thought to have been influenced by the devil, and Quakers were not allowed to hold church services or to speak in public. As many faiths in Europe that were considered unorthodox were considered to be outside the law, including the Rosicrucian Pietists, they all continued generally to be discriminated against in cruel ways. The need was growing for people of independent mind and heart to have a place to live freely according to their own choice, their own conscience. |
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