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“Now, Friends, deal plainly with yourselves, and let the eternal Light search you, and try you, for the good of your souls. For this will deal plainly with you. It will rip you up, and lay you open, and make all manifest which lodges in you; the secret subtlety of the enemy of your souls, this eternal searcher and trier will make manifest. Therefore all to this come, and by this be searched, and judged, and led and guided. For to this you must stand or fall.”

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Margaret Fell

Margaret Fell (1614-1702) was an English religious leader and social activist. She played a significant role in the Quaker movement, particularly in the development of the Religious Society of Friends. Fell, the wife of George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, had a profound impact on the doctrine and practice of the movement through her writings and lectures. more

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