This is the second part of a two-part essay on spiritualism, grief, freedom and politics. Part one can be found here.
"Universal Man" illumination from Hildegard's Liber Divinorum Operum, I.2. Lucca, MS 1942, early 13th-century copy.
The relationship between a revealed truth and a woman recovering from sickness has some analogies in the mystical experienc…
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