John Winthrop the Younger was a pioneering early Governor of the Connecticut Colony but also deeply learned in the occult philosophy, alchemy and Paracelsian Spagyric Medicine. So much so that he may well be regarded as the first true occultist in the American colonies. Cotton Mather even dubbed Winthrop “Hermes Christianus – the Christian Hermes.” Taking with him books that once belonged to Dr. John Dee, a vast alchemical lab and deep knowledge of European Esotericism, Winthrop would attempt to create a Pansophist research institution in colonial America. He would also become famous for his medical practice before using his knowledge of the occult philosophy to greatly stall colonial Witch Hunts. And, as part of the “Alchemical Republic” – the first colonial member of the Royal Society – he would direct import Western Esotericism into America.
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