Here is the first English translation based on the new critical edition of The Flowing Light of the Godhead,
the sole mystical visionary work of Mechthild, a 13th-century (c. 1260-c. 1282/94) German Beguine. This challenging
work of deep religious insight reflects Mechthild's inner life, and God's as well, employing a great variety of
traditional medieval literary forms and genres in prose and verse.