Mechthild of Magdeburg - Selected Verses - Christian Medieval Mystic

Selected verses from "The Flowing light of the Godhead " - Translated by Frank Tobin and the text "Enduring Grace - Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics  by Carol Lee Flinders

Mechthild of Magdeburg (c. 1207 – c. 1282/1294), a Beguine, was a Christian medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit (The Flowing Light of Divinity) described her visions of God. She was the first mystic to write in German, as she did not know how to write in Latin. Definite biographical information about Mechthild is scarce; what is known of her life comes largely from scattered hints in her work. She was born in a noble Saxon family. She had her first vision of the Holy Spirit at the age of twelve. In 1230 she left her home and “renounced worldly honour and worldly riches” to become a Beguine at Magdeburg.

Her criticism of church dignitaries, religious laxity and claims to theological insight aroused so much opposition that some called for the burning of her writings.

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