1. Thomas Tryon was an English merchant and writer who wrote several popular self-help books and was an early advocate of animal rights and vegetarianism.
11 Facts About Thomas Tryon
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Thomas Tryon became an Anabaptist in 1654 under the influence of his master.
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Thomas Tryon liked the ascetic lifestyle of that congregation, but soon he found his own independent spiritual way after reading the writings of Jakob Bohme.
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Thomas Tryon married in 1661 but failed to convert his wife to his lifestyle.
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Thomas Tryon traveled to Barbados hoping to succeed in his hat trade and to profit from greater religious tolerance there, but was shocked by the cruelty of slavery in the plantations.
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Thomas Tryon considered himself a Christian and tried to reconcile Biblical, Pythagorean and Hindu teachings.
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Thomas Tryon's conviction was that there was one true original religion of mankind, followed by Moses, Pythagoras and the Indian Brahmins, but perverted by the majority of Christians.
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Thomas Tryon was of the opinion that humans are a miniature image of the universe.
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Thomas Tryon voiced environmental concerns about the pollution of rivers and the destruction of forests.
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Thomas Tryon did not believe in reincarnation, but assumed that the souls of sinners take on the forms of vicious beasts in a nightmarish afterlife.
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Thomas Tryon has been associated with the history of animal rights.