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Philadelphians
The Philadelphians
, or the
Philadelphian Society
, were a
Protestant
17th century religious group in
England
. They were organized around
John Pordage
(1607–1681), an
Anglican
priest
from
Bradfield, Berkshire
, who had been ejected from his
parish
in 1655 because of differing views, but then reinstated in 1660 during the
English Restoration
. Pordage was attracted to the ideas of
Jakob Böhme
, a
Lutheran
theosophist
and
Christian mystic
.
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