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Quaker Culture: Direct Experience

Author(s):
Isaac Penington
Issue:
On Perception (March 2023)
Department:
Quaker Culture

[The] Lord opened my spirit . . . [and] gave me the certain and sensible feeling of the pure, which had been with me from the beginning . . . such an inward demonstration and feeling of the seed of life, that I cried out in my spirit, “. . . there is not another, there never was another.”

Isaac Penington (1667)

seed of life inward light

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