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Paulina Bates (1806–1884), also known as Mother Paulina Bates, was a Shaker eldress and theological writer associated with the Watervliet, New York community during the mid-nineteenth century. She is best known as the author of The Divine Book of Holy and Eternal Wisdom (1849), a major visionary text of the Shaker Era of Manifestations. Modern scholarship identifies Bates as a significant female theological authority within nineteenth-century Shakerism.