Quote by Mechthild of Magdeburg: “The soul is created for love, and love for God.”

Mechthild expresses a core mystical belief that human beings are fundamentally made to experience and give love, with the highest form of this love directed towards the divine. It suggests our deepest purpose is to connect spiritually with God.

Mechthild was a prominent Beguine mystic whose writings captured her intense personal experiences of divine love. Her work, 'The Flowing Light of the Godhead,' offered profound spiritual insights in 13th-century Germany.

German mystic and Beguine writer born around 1207, author of The Flowing Light of the Godhead, the first major mystical work written in the German vernacular rather than Latin. She wrote with startling emotional directness about her visions and spiritual experiences. She spent her later years at the Helfta monastery under Gertrude the Great.