On the rebel side we have, of course, the leaders of many dead heresies and sects. The Montanists of the second century, with their claim to direct inspiration, their cult of ecstatic phenomena and prophetic speech; the numerous mystical heretics and Illuminati of the Middle Ages, often preaching the most extravagant doctrines and always claiming for them divine authority-for instance, the Brethren of the Free Spirit, who claimed the possession of the Holy Ghost.
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