Abstract
Franciscus van den Enden, Spinoza's spiritual master In order to understand the genesis of spinozism, we have relied оn the free-thinking and secret personality of Spinoza's master in latinity, v. d. Enden whom Meinsma made his philosophers' disciple, thus concealing the historical importance of v. d. Enden's circle for the benefit of Spinoza's. The study of the political struggle waged by v. d. Enden and by French freethinkers against Louis XIV showed us the anonymous political works of Spinoza's master: "Vrye Politijke Stellingen" (pt. l, 1665 ; mss extracts pts 2 and 3 ) then "Korte Verhael Van Nieuw Nederlants" (1662). Thus we rediscovered the "Philedonius" (1657). We have shown a direct line between these works and those of Spinoza in their attempt to give a lay translation of the secret Alchemical and Hermetic tradition.
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