Beguine

In thirteenth-century Germany, a blind mystic named Mechthild of Magdeburg wrote words that powerful men wanted to burn. Her response: 'No one can burn the truth.' Her book, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, carried a radical vision---that divine love flows continuously and abundantly to every soul, not as something earned but as an endless stream seeking us all. Writing in the language of ordinary people rather than Latin, Mechthild challenged the idea that grace was scarce and spiritual truth belonged only to the qualified few.