As she grew in confidence and reputation, however, the number of references to her weakness as a woman decreased. In her later theological works, she shifted pronouns regularly. When describing her visions, she would start by referring to a man ‘seeing’, but the viewpoint would switch in the next sentence to that of a woman. This blurring of gender appears deliberate; a way of showing that Divine Love (which she characterises as feminine) flows through everything regardless of perceived biological sex. She also visualised central concepts, like the physical manifestation of Love, as having
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