1. Godfrey Higgins was an English magistrate and landowner, a prominent advocate for social reform, historian, and antiquarian.
15 Facts About Godfrey Higgins
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Godfrey Higgins has been termed a "political radical, reforming county magistrate and idiosyncratic historian of religions".
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Godfrey Higgins was educated in Hemsworth before being admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1790, and transferring to Trinity Hall in 1791.
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Godfrey Higgins later studied law at the Inner Temple, but was not granted a license to practice law, and refrained from practice.
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When Napoleon threatened an invasion of the United Kingdom, Higgins joined the Volunteer Corps and became a Captain of the Third West York Militia.
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Godfrey Higgins joined Quaker William Tuke in agitating for reform.
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Godfrey Higgins proceeded to investigate a suspicious fire that had destroyed many of the asylum's records, concluding that it was unlikely to have started by accident.
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Godfrey Higgins developed a regimen to study the meaning of life and religion, and wrote:.
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Godfrey Higgins was claimed a member of An Uileach Druidh Braithreaches, an ancient Druid order that predates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; however, these claims are unsubstantiated.
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Regardless, Godfrey Higgins demonstrated extensive knowledge and familiarity with the traditions of Druid orders in his work, The Celtic Druids.
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Godfrey Higgins' main writings were part of the syncretism of the day, which was an attempt to associate Biblical narratives to evidence emerging about other religious traditions.
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Godfrey Higgins discussed, and argued with, other authors of this tradition such as Jacob Bryant, Roger O'Connor and William Jones.
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Godfrey Higgins identified this nation with the drowned land of Atlantis, hitherto regarded as a myth in itself.
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Nevertheless, Wouter Hanegraaff, who has written a detailed history of esotericism, says that Godfrey Higgins had no interest in either occultism or esotericism.
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Godfrey Higgins made his God after himself, and then said that man was made after the image of God.