Thomas Traherne: His Search for Felicity By Elsa-Brita Titchenell Hence comes it to pass, that all Ages and Kingdoms, Heaven and Earth, Time and Eternity, Angels and Seraphins, the infinite Heights and Excellencies of God, are, after a sort, in the Soul of Man. -- Thomas Traherne (1637 -1674) Seventeenth-century England was the stage for fierce religious controversy, with a broad spectrum of ...