HSRP-533
From 1310 to 1687 seven Western condemnations, Catholic and Protestant, named an inner teaching as the offense where it claimed freedom from the office's means; mystics within the sacraments were made saints.
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
From 1310 to 1687 seven Western condemnations, Catholic and Protestant, named an inner teaching as the offense where it claimed freedom from the office's means; mystics within the sacraments were made saints.
Cited on: /the-hive-mind, THE RELIGIOUS HIVE MIND › When inner teaching was condemned. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W3a-14.
3. What it rests on
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Between 1310 and 1687, seven Western condemnations named an inner teaching itself as the offense: five by Catholic offices, from the inquisitor who condemned Marguerite Porete (1310) to the Holy Office against Miguel de Molinos (1687), and two by Protestant ones, England's Parliament (1650) and the Massachusetts General Court (1656–61) [SRC-977] [SRC-978] [SRC-979] [SRC-980] [SRC-981] [SRC-982] [SRC-983]. Each named a teaching that claimed freedom from the office's means, its rites, works or obedience, or a union with God that made its mediation needless. Each reached lay or vernacular audiences. Pope John XXII's bull of 1329, issued after Meister Eckhart's death, said he had put such things "especially before the uneducated crowd" [SRC-979].
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In the same centuries the churches made saints of mystics whose union stayed within the sacraments: Bernard of Clairvaux and Teresa of Ávila in the West, Gregory Palamas in the East [SRC-1115] [SRC-1116] [SRC-1117]. What drew condemnation was a claim to do without the office, not inner teaching as such.
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Offices against inner teaching. Seven Western condemnations between 1310 and 1687 name inner teaching as the offense where it claimed to reach God without the office's means. They came from Catholic and Protestant offices alike, England's Parliament and the General Court of Massachusetts among them (see THE RELIGIOUS HIVE MIND, on /the-hive-mind).
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No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
No source is linked to this observation in the register.
5. Counter-evidence
No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.
6. Why this grade
The argument for this grade has not yet been recorded for this observation.
The register defines PROBABLE as: Well supported, but an interpretation or connection across sources rather than something a source states directly.
7. Correction history
8. Related observations
- HSRP-414 · PROBABLE · THE TWO HIVE MINDS: party loyalty in the United States works as a social identity, and voters largely follow it. Rests on: the publisher's description of Achen and Bartels, Democracy for Realists (2016) (voters choose "on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues"; the book itself not opened); Finkel and fourteen co-authors, Science 370 (2020) (political sectarianism defined at p. 533; "cold feelings toward the out-party now exceed warm feelings toward the in-party", p. 533; a majority-party candidate "could get elected despite openly violating democratic principles", p. 535, reporting Graham and Svolik 2020, not opened); Rathje, Van Bavel and van der Linden, PNAS 2021 (each out-group term raised the odds of a post being shared by 67%, from the abstract, which gives n = 2,730,215; observational; sharing, not votes). Washington's Farewell Address (1796) is quoted as a text, the two fragments being the opening and closing words of one sentence. Against, carried on the page: Druckman, Green and Iyengar (2023) found "scant evidence of a direct link between affective polarization and democratic backsliding in the U.S." That the two party hive minds are steered by design is not yet found, and it is not yet known whether it will be found; what is found is an incentive that rewards hostility. The model of the hive mind is this site's own, set out on /the-hive-mind, whose section 9 is "THE TWO-PARTY ARCHITECTURE", and on /psycho-vulgarism.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-446 · PROBABLE · A cue from the source a hive trusts moves members more than a persuasive message does, even against their earlier views and in either direction.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-453 · PROBABLE · Norms, network spread and party cues, the chain's parts, are each studied on their own.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-463 · PROBABLE · Media rarely create a hive: they reset what trusting audiences hold, coordinate the committed and reflect the line back, a loop rather than a source; whether algorithms create hives over years is an open question.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-491 · OPEN QUESTION · Cues, copied bill texts and penalties for dissent are on record on both sides; the internal records found so far come from one side only.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-534 · PROBABLE · Elsewhere an inner doctrine was named more often than it decided, with faction, succession or a crisis at the center at work too.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-539 · WORKING · What the record supports is interest without design: an office that runs the outer form gains a stake in keeping it, planned or not.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-591 · ESTABLISHED · Edward Bernays called "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses" the work of "an invisible government": the engineering of opinion in its engineer's words, done by publicists for clients.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-592 · SPECULATIVE · Polybius judged that superstition held the Roman state together, and Augustine reports a Roman high priest thinking it "expedient … that states should be deceived in matters of religion"; that religion was invented for rule is speculative.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-593 · PROBABLE · States shape belief through broadcasting and schooling, mostly in the open, and the largest lasting effect came where total control met the schoolroom; a measured effect of Soviet propaganda on belief, or of catechism or curriculum on adult obedience, is not yet found.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-594 · WORKING · Offices of opposed creeds made the same moves, licensing one body, closing the rest and condemning teaching that went around the office, from Rome's Senate in 186 BC to an Ottoman sultan and the Turkish republic; one designing class across history is not yet found; not yet known whether it will be found.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-595 · WORKING · The research on avoiding unwelcome information explains avoidance by its expected cost, supporting this page's mechanism, not a builder behind it.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-596 · WORKING · Both poles close: the suppressed inner traditions and the offices that suppressed them both closed themselves off and appealed to a founding beyond review, and the difference lay in power and its outcomes.Relation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- The Programmable Hive Mind“From 1310 to 1687 seven Western condemnations, Catholic and Protestant, named an inner teaching as the offense where it claimed freedom from the office's means; mystics within the sacraments were made saints — PROBABLE”
- The Programmable Hive Mind“Seven Western condemnations, 1310–1687, named inner teaching as the offense where it claimed to reach God without the office's means — PROBABLE”
- The Programmable Hive Mind“Where offices condemned inner teaching, the charge named its claim to do without their means; elsewhere the doctrine was rarely the only reason, with faction, property, revenue and succession at work beside it — PROBABLE”
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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