I have his new book on fairies on my wish list. 😊 I also highly recommend Paganism Persisting, a collaboration between @robincdouglas.bsky.social and @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social. This book packs an incredible amount of info into a relatively short book. www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/pag...

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....practising geomancy, astrology, dowsing & communicating with spirits. The inquiry found, among other occult texts, pseudo-Agrippa’s "Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy", which contained treatises exploring earth divination, elemental entities (like the gnomes of Paracelsus), & medical astrology.

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Are there are any, more direct, historical examples of Quakers engaging in natural magic? Actually yes! In 1695, secular & Quaker authorities in Pennsylvania's Chester County launched an inquest against a Quaker family—Philip Roman & his sons, Robert & Philip Jr. The men were charged with...

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....among Quakers in the American colonies (doubtless because of his optimistic vision of creation & human restoration). It is easy to see how the assumptions & aspirations of much C17th alchemy (particularly the spiritual transformation of nature) dovetailed with the Quaker doctrine of perfection.

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...knowledge of the universities (still inspired by Galen) & seems to have adopted a version of Paracelsianism. It is worth noting that Bourne & Lloyd met the alchemist, & for a time Quaker convert, Francis Mercury Van Helmont. Helmont, son of Jan Baptist van Helmont. Jan Baptist was widely read...

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