Dialogue 1: The Soul Came to Love

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This is the first dialogue session that focuses on the Beguine mystic, Mechtild of Magdeburg. James Finley and Kirsten Oates talk about the first session which focused on passages from Mechtild of Magdeburg's book The Flowing Light of the Godhead. Resources: The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about Mechtild of Magdeburg? Email us: [email protected] or leave us voicemail. Questions for this season will only be accepted until October 30th, 2023. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation
0:04.2	to learn more, visit caac.org.
0:08.4	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.1	And I'm Kirsten Oates.
0:13.1	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:22.8	Welcome everyone to season eight of Turning to the Mystics.
0:27.2	We're returning to the 13th century German Mystic,
0:30.9	Mechteld of Magdeburg.
0:33.2	And I'm here with Jim. Welcome Jim.
0:35.5	Yes, yes, welcome. I'd be with each other again.
0:38.8	And we're here to talk about your first session on Mechtild's book,
0:43.2	The Flowing Light of the Godhead.
0:45.6	Yes.
0:46.3	Yeah. So I wanted to start where you ended your first talk, which is saying that you can't read
0:54.2	Mechtild for content or explanation.
0:57.1	It's so dense with a love language that has no conceptual content.
1:01.6	But if we sit with each,
1:03.3	each thing she says in a receptive openness of love,
1:07.2	we can begin to get reverberations of this loving union that is stirring within us.
1:13.1	And you said that this love language is the dowry of our being.
1:17.7	Can you just talk a little bit more about that?
1:20.4	Yes. The dowry of our being is that one way to say it is that
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