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Gnosticism & Christian Mysticism
Jane Leade
Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Mystic
- First published2005
- TraditionGnosticism
- Shelf132 books
The first full scholarly biography of the English visionary Jane Lead. Hirst reconstructs her family background, her life with John Pordage and her leadership of the Philadelphians, and reads her Sophia visions in the context of seventeenth-century women's religious writing.








