‘Mechthild’s face is radiant like the sun.’
Week 27 of the Calendar Year
A vision during a session of craniosacral therapy. May 2025
I set the intention to deepen into my stability around accepting who I am and what's mine to do in life.
Quickly, with my inner seeing I saw an old, old woman, stooped, hunched over like a crone, and with her back to me. She was wearing a cloak that also covered her head. I sensed she was Mechthild of Magdeburg.
I was nervous of her turning around because I knew that Mechthild would hand me a sacred book for me to share, and I am nervous of doing so. Then I knew that if Mechthild turns around, her face will be a blazing light like the sun and I will be overwhelmed.
I wonder can I steady myself, can I stand in my truth?
Then the vision begins to have its own life and energy.
Mechthild turns around and her face is radiant like the sun. She is the divine light. She hands me her heart, which is a book and asks me will I undertake to carry it, to keep it safe, and when the time comes, to share it in whatever way is appropriate in the given time? I say, ‘Yes, I will.’
Then I understand many different things all at the same time. She hands me The Book of Love and I understand it's not a physical passing of a book, it’s a transmission. It is to carry love-itself forward. It is the light of Christ.
As she hands me her heart-book, I see both Mechthild and the heart-book become a chalice. The same self-replenishing chalice I recently saw above my head in another vision — a golden lighted chalice pouring light into my body as a flood of love. Then, I suddenly recall Christ saying to me one year on Ascension Thursday, ‘This my light, I give it to you. This is my love poured out for you.’ And, ‘Receive my love, become who I AM.’ Intense, powerful energies are flowing in me. I hear ‘Receive my love’, repeatedly as the chalice light pours into me. I was feeling gold light flood my body from the fountain of love. It is ecstasy.
Then somehow the Yin and Yang symbol presents, and the Christ light was exploding out of the line between the two sides, and suddenly I understood the Yin and Yang is the meeting of heaven and earth, of my divinity and my humanity.
Then I realise the reason Mechthild wears the cloak is because the light is too bright for ordinary human perception. It would blind or overwhelm. Then I understood my speaking at the academic conference and my mystical writing are two sides of the same coin. One is the noumena, the-thing-in-itself, and the other one speaks about the noumena. A cascade of understanding flooded me, like dominoes falling. ‘Receive my love, become who I am.’ ‘This is my light, I give it to you.’
I knew that Mechthild and Gertrude and Abbess Gertrude are all with me now in all that I am doing to share ‘the book of love.’ As I speak, Christ speaks. The new consciousness speaks. Truth speaks. I am truth, I am light, I am love.
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31st May 2025 morning meditation
The following morning when meditating I again saw Mechthild turn her face to me but where her face might be is a blaze of light. She is the light of the world. I see myself lie down on the ground in reverence before her, and then I stand steady in my own truth before her. She is Christ. She reaches her hands towards me and offers me gifts. In her right hand is a chalice which holds burning fire and there is a rose blossoming in the fire; in her left hand is her heart, which is a book. I reach to receive them in awe and humility.
As I hold the gifts, I wonder what next? What am I to do? Am I to turn around to face the human world? I ask Christ to guide me and I hear again, ‘This is my light poured out for you; this is my heart, I give it to you.’
Then I turn as if to face back to the human realm. Christ reminds me that I leave without leaving, and that I carry these gifts in my whole being. I understand that no one can see the light divine with the naked human eyes, so it must be cloaked in material form in order to be shared. Those who can see will see. The light is cloaked and offered in forms appropriate to this realm.
Then I receive “The Book of Love: Visions of the Rose”, as the name for the first book of my visions.
As the vision ended I saw many rhomboids forming into a mandala. I realise this is the necessary balance: to be human and divine at the same time. When the light consciously returns to the centre, to the self-replenishing chalice or fountain, it doesn't rest. It goes out again in the flood of light, but this time conscious of what it is, and that it is in service. Steady. Conscious of what she, he, it is doing. Consciously participating in the flow of love. Blessed be
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The first vision I had of Mechthild in July 2024 is published here
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