Mechthild of Magdeburg and the mystical spirituality of eros
In the wee hours I often admire my husband’s muscular back, giving thanks for its “surest protection,” like that of the “resplendent mountain” I recently discovered in a 13th century spiritual memoir by German mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg. For Mechthild, the physical is mystical, and the mystical is sensual. After all, as Anne Lamott puts…