Excellent 4 min video on the origins of Quakerism. From this and other sources, I can find no evidence that Quakerism had significant influences from outside of the UK (for example, wandering Bishops from the Middle East, remnants of secret societies, etc; but rather during a transitional time in English Society, there were spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings in Fox and others, during the 1640's. The inner voice messages received by Fox provided him with a truly revolutionary epiphany, unique in Protestant Europe at the time.: ....: that what you seek without (the Truth as provided by Jesus Christ), can be found from within. As we have previously seen in the discussions of Quietism, such messages were also received in Catholic Europe around the same time or earlier, but met with much persecution and eventual extinction. Thus, we can count Fox as being one of the greatest of Spiritual luminaries of the European Enlightenment era.
How Quakerism Began https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmL_GhnXSJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmL_GhnXSJQ How Quakerism Began https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmL_GhnXSJQ Quaker Speak: Max Carter shares the story of George Fox, a Quaker who went seeking for spiritual answers and found them not in a church, but within. Max is ... View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmL_GhnXSJQ Preview by Yahoo
