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Born January 25, 1863 • Maine
Died June 16, 1948 (aged 85) • Pennsylvania
Founder American Friends Service Committee
Subjects Of Study Society of Friends • mysticism

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Elizabeth Leslie Rous Comstock
Anglo-American minister and social reformer
John Woolman
American religious leader
Elias Hicks
Elias Hicks
American minister
Jones Very
American poet and mystic
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Bonaventura Berlinghieri: St. Francis and Scenes from His Life
St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
Romanian religious historian and author
Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Jewish mystic
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
Baʿal Shem Ṭov
Polish rabbi
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
George Fox
George Fox
English religious leader
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
French mystic