Bathurst, Ann
摘要
Ann Bathurst (c. 1638–c. 1704) was a mystical visionary and leading prophet of the Philadelphian Society, a late seventeenth-century London group of religious thinkers who followed the ideas of the sixteenth-century German Mystic Jacob Boehme. Little is known about her life: she married and had several children, only two of whom survived to adulthood. At the age of forty she began to receive ecstatic visions, often involving a sense of communion and connection with God and a personal spirit. She recorded these in an extensive diary, which exists in several manuscripts.