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Medieval mystics

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The Relationship Between Water and Spiritual Knowledge

"I got really interested initially in water because I kept noticing it kept popping up in these books written for women whether that's by men or by women on these sorts of topics. Water seemed to be really significant and then as I was reading more I noticed that often there were images of transformation within that so water so that turns into wine bloods that turns into water honey oil milk various different fluids used to describe crucially usually the moment that Christ is dying on the cross" "There's sort of a direct correlation between being sort of surrounded by Christ's bodily fluids and having spiritual knowledge"

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