A member of a Spanish mystical or heretical religious movement from the 15th-17th centuries that emphasized direct divine illumination.
From Spanish alumbrado, literally 'illuminated' or 'enlightened,' from Latin alumbrare. The name comes from believers' claims of being divinely illuminated without church mediation.
The Alumbrados were so suspicious to the Spanish Inquisition that they were branded as heretics—yet their ideas about personal spiritual experience influenced Protestantism and modern mysticism across Europe.
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