Pansophist movement
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Pansophism, in older usage often pansophy, is a concept of omniscience, meaning "all-knowing". In some monotheistic belief systems, god is referred as the ultimate knowing spirit. Someone who is pansophical is someone who claims to have obtained total gnosis from this source.
It also refers to the pedagogic ideas of universal wisdom (pansophia), as it occurred in the educational system of universal knowledge proposed by John Amos Comenius, a Moravian educator.
The term was also often applied to the followers of Simon Studion. Magister Simon Studion was a Latin teacher, a poet, historian, archaeologist, and apocryphal writer. He is generally only known as the author of the "Naometria" (Temple Measure), a combination of mathematics, laws of nature, plan of the building of the allegorical Temple, and prophecy. Followers of Simon Studion were sometimes called Naometa. H. Spencer Lewis claims that, "a great part of the book is devoted to a history of the cross and its real spiritual and mystical significance, to the rose and its symbolical meaning, and to the special significance of the rose and the cross when united." It is believed that it took Simon Studion 4 years to compile this monumental piece of work, which today is in the Württemberg National Library of Stuttgart, and listed under "Cod. Theol. et Philos. 2° 34". The revised manuscript of the Naometria [ Nova ] ( part a & b ) was completed in 1604 and is also in the same Library, and listed under "Cod. Theol. et Philos. 4° 23 a / b", and also took 4 years to compile. According to the writings of H. Spencer Lewis, the Naometria ( [Nova] ) was ..."dedicated to Friedrich, the Duke of Württemberg, who was a Grand Master of the Rosicrucians." It is also known that Simon Studion founded an alliance called the Crucesignati, which translated means "marked by the cross". This was one of many societies that were founded by him. Studion's influence was largely due to his patron the Duke of Württemberg, a prominent German supporter of alchemical studies and a member of the English Order of the Garter.
The Pansophists were among the first to form international alliances and many regard them as precursors of the Rosicrucians.
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