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ADAMITES, or ADAMIANS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 174 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADAMITES, or ADAMIANS , a See also:sect of heretics that flourished in See also:North See also:Africa in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Basing itself probably on a See also:union of certain gnostic and ascetic doctrines, this sectpretended that its members were re-established in See also:Adam's See also:state of See also:original innocency. They accordingly rejected the See also:form of See also:marriage, which, they said, would never have existed but for See also:sin, and lived in See also:absolute lawlessness, holding that, whatever they did, their actions could be neither See also:good nor See also:bad. During the See also:middle ages the doctrines of this obscure sect, which did not itself exist See also:long, were revived in See also:Europe by the Brethren and Sisters of the See also:Free Spirit.

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