The cognition of thoughts and mystical journey and conduct of the German mystic female Mechthild of Magdeburge

The feminine mysticism is a phenomenon that has flourished in Christianity more widespread than the other Abrahamic religions and the female’s purely sects and institutions appeared in it. It became the shelter for female Christian mystics. Mechthild of Magdeburg is one of these female mystics that preferred the mystical journey against the home, family, property and marriage and first be a beguine in the beguinage and last entered to the convent as a nun. She wrote the book named flowing light of the godhead that reflects her mystical, philosophic, religious and moral opinions and sights; the work that herself was knowing as her intuition’s outcome. Her viewpoints have feminine literature and sometimes are feministic. Mechthild was seeing her date’s clerical of the church needy for reform and criticized that with sharp words that be followed her disfavor. By descriptive study of experiential, cognitional and ideological items, beside her biography, this paper attempts to know her thoughts and mystical journey.