Author: Mander, Charles
Title: The Reverend Prince and his Abode of Love
Description: East Ardsley, EP Publishing, (1976). orig.boards. 20x13cm, vii, 143 pp. Textual photos. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Account of the defrocked Church of England priest Reverend Henry James Prince's spiritual-sexual sect "Agapemone", Spaxton (Somerset, England), ca. 1842-1899. Prince experienced a revelation that he was the Holy Ghost personified; that he was transformed into God & practiced (& published: " The Little Book Open",London,C.A.Bartlett,1856) a ritual centering on the neccessity of taking the flesh of a virgin in order to redeem the world.

Keywords: Religious sects, Heretics, England, English eccentrics, Prince,Henry James, Agapemone, Cults, History of religion, Somerset