works through everything cannot sin, because every human act is then the act of God; A man who recognizes the truth that God works through everything is already in Heaven and this is the only resurrection. There is no other life; man's fulfillment is in this life alone. Due to persecutions, this sect does not appear to have long survived the death of its founder. Not long after the burning of ten of their members (1210), the sect itself lost its importance, while some of the surviving Amalricians became Brethren of the Free Spirit. According to Hosea Ballou, then Pierre Batiffol and George T. Knight (1914) Amalric believed that all people would eventually be saved and this was one of the counts upon which he was declared a heretic by Pope Innocent III. See also Brethren of the Free Spirit References Attribution: This cites: W. Preger, Geschichte der deutschen Mystik im Mittelalter (Leipzig, 1874, i. 167–173) Hauréau, Histoire de la phil. scol. (Paris, 1872) C. Schmidt, Histoire de l'Église d'Occident pendant le moyen âge (Paris, 1885) Hefele, Conciliengeschichte (2nd ed., Freiburg, 1886) Sources Christoph Ulrich Hahn: Geschichte der Ketzer im Mittelalter, Vol. 3 (Stuttgart, 1850) Arno Borst: Religiöse und geistige Bewegungen im Hochmittelalter, Propyläen Weltgeschichte, Ullstein 1963, Vol. 5, p. 537 Friedrich Heer Medieval World Europe 1100-1350 Capelle, G. C., Amaury de Bène, étude sur son panthéisme formel (Paris, 1932). Russell, J. B., The Influence of Amalric of Bene in Thirteenth Century Pantheism (Berkeley, 1957). 1200s deaths 12th-century births 12th-century Christian universalists 12th-century Christian mystics Christian universalist theologians Roman Catholic mystics Pantheists Scholastic philosophers