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Torrentius’s views
Govert Snoek,
De Rosenkruizers in Nederland,
Voornamelijk in de Eerste Helft van de 17de Eeuw. Een Inventarisatie
(Ph.D. thesis,
University of Utrecht, 1997), pp. 80–7.

Jeronimus and Torrentius
How, then, it might be asked, did the word
Torrentian
find its way into Pelsaert’s journals? Torrentius’s trial had been such a cause
célèbre that it is certainly possible the upper-merchant used it as a label for
something he hardly understood. But Pelsaert was not in Holland when Van der Beeck was
arraigned, and there is no sign that he was familiar with the minutiae of the charges or
the trial. On the whole it seems more likely that it was indeed Jeronimus who brought up
the painter’s name.

If so, Cornelisz’s reasoning remains obscure. Admitting that he had known
such a notorious heretic was hardly likely to help his case, and it may be that Van der
Beeck’s name was dragged from him under torture. However, it is perhaps more likely
that Jeronimus volunteered it freely, perhaps with the intention of using it in
mitigation—presenting himself as the painter’s dupe. Such an effort would be in
keeping with his earlier attempt to place the blame for all the murders on his dead
councillors, and it would have been equally characteristic for the under-merchant to
assimilate a few of Torrentius’s beliefs into his own warped worldview, while
ignoring any that did not fit his preconceived opinions.

“Well spoken”
“Declaration in Short,” op.
cit.

The psychology of Jeronimus Cornelisz
Theodore Milton, Erik Simonsen,
Morton Birek-Smith, and Roger Davis (eds.),
Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal and
Violent Behaviour
(New York: Guildford Press, 1998), pp. 34–6, 161–9; Robert
Hare,
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
(New
York: Guildford Press, 1999), pp. 12–4, 18, 34–5, 38, 40, 44, 46, 52,
135–6, 158, 166–70, 195–200; Hare,
Psychopathy: Theory and Research
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1970), pp. 95–109.

“Most clinicians and researchers . . .”
Hare,
Without
Conscience,
p. 22.

“Rebel without a cause”
Cited in ibid., p. 81. In 1944, Lindner
wrote a well-regarded study of criminal psychopathy titled
Rebel Without a Cause,
which was later turned—with extensive modifications—into the famous film of the
same name.

“Psychopaths have a narcissistic view . . .”
Hare,
Without
Conscience,
p. 38.

“Careful observers . . .”
Ibid., p. 52.

Psychopathy has no cure
Ibid., pp. 195–7.

Source of Chapter Heading Quotes

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