Agapemone

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Agapemone (ăgəpĕm`ənē) [Gr.,=abode of love], English religious community of men and women, holding all goods in common. It was founded (c.1850) at the village of Spaxton, Somerset, by Henry James Prince (1811–99), Samuel Starky, and others. Prince and Starky were clergymen who had left (c.1843) the Church of England after Prince claimed that the Holy Ghost had taken up residence in his body. The Agapemonites proclaimed the imminent second coming of Jesus. Riotous conditions at the community caused scandal, and after Prince lost a lawsuit brought by two disenchanted followers in 1860, the community slipped from public notice. There was a period (c.1890) of renewed activity when J. H. Smyth-Pigott, who believed himself to be Jesus reincarnated, conducted meetings at an Agapemonite branch establishment in Clapton, London. He succeeded Prince as leader of the sect, which soon vanished.

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No references found			com Part autobiography/family memoir and part religious inspection, ABODE OF LOVE: GROWING UP IN A MESSIANIC CULT tells of being raised at Agapemone, a cult whose religion embraced religious and sexual scandal that absorbed her family as her distant relatives down to her grandfather took 'spiritual' brides. Abode of Love by The Bookwatch com Part autobiography/family memoir and part religious inspection, ABODE OF LOVE: GROWING UP IN A MESSIANIC CULT tells of being raised at Agapemone, a cult whose religion embraced religious and sexual scandal that absorbed her family as her distant relatives down to her grandfather took 'spiritual' brides. Abode of Love by Internet Bookwatch			Agalmatolite Agaltsov, Filipp Agaltsov, Filipp Aleksandrovich Agama Agamali ogly, Samed Aga Agamede Agamedes Agamemnon agameon agamete agamic Agamidae agammaglobulinemia agamogony agamospecies agamospermy Agan Agaña Aganbegian, Abel Aganbegian, Abel Gezevich Aganippe Agaontidae Agapa Agapanthus agape Agapemone Agapii Goncharenko Agapornis Agapov, Boris Agapov, Boris Nikolaevich Agapov, Semen Agapov, Semen Ivanovich Agapovka agar agar attar agar plate count agar-gel reaction Agara Agarak Agardh agaric agaric acid agaric mineral Agaricales agaricin Agaricus Agarkov, Egor Agarkov, Egor Prokofevich agarophyte agarose Agartala			Agap Agapa agapanthus agapanthus Agapanthus africanus Agapanthus africanus Agapanthus umbellatus agapanthuses agapanthuses Agapao Agapao Agapao agape agape agape agape Agapé Agapé Agapé Agape Christian Fellowship International, Inc Agape Christian Worship Center Agape Copeland Train Agape feast Agape Link Collection Agape love Agape love Agape love Agape Mission Church Agape Revival Christian Church Agape School of World Evangelism Agapemone agapes agapes agapes Agapii Goncharenko Agapornis Agapornis Agapornis Agapov, Boris Agapov, Boris Nikolaevich Agapov, Semen Agapov, Semen Ivanovich Agapovka AGAPT AGAQ agar agar agar agar Agar (Bible) Agar (Bible) Agar agar Agar agar Agar agar agar attar Agar diffusion test Agar diffusion test Agar diffusion test Agar gel Agar gel Agar gel

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