He was also a Familist, hermetic thinker, Neoplatonist, and alchemist.

Familist, or "natalist" policies, as they are sometimes described, have a long legacy in Europe, particularly in countries with a strong Catholic heritage.

Familist, from Encyclopædia Britannica, on-line edition, free.

The keeper of the lions in the Tower of London for James I was a Familist.

This was Winthrop's way of suggesting that Wheelwright maintained familist doctrines.

Mrs. Glister asks if Mrs. Purge has gone to a Familist meeting.

Glister is in fact cheating on his wife - not with Maria but with the Familist wife of Purge the apothecary.

Plantin worked by day as Philip II of Spain's printer of Catholic documents for the Counter Reformation, and otherwise surreptitiously printed Familist literature.

For example, they wished death upon those outside of the Family of Love, and re-marriage after the death of a spouse could only take place between men and women of the same Familist congregation.