Known as “Mother Ann,” Ann Lee was a charismatic religious leader who brought the Shaker movement from England to the American Colonies. Regarded as the embodiment of the feminine aspect of God’s dual masculine-feminine nature, she was believed to have ushered in the millennium of the Second Coming of Christ. She established celibacy as the cardinal principle of the community.
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