What beliefs did the Collegiants reject about formal religious creeds and ceremonies?

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Engraved portrait of Benedict de Spinoza by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz, showing Spinoza in formal 17th-century attire with a circular symbol in the upper left corner. — Benedict de Spinoza Benedict de Spinoza.

The Collegiants were a religious group in Amsterdam characterized by their resistance to any formal religious creed or practice. By rejecting these established structures, they sought to move away from the rigid dogmas and ceremonial requirements that defined many other religious organizations of the time.1