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DETACHED NOTE ON ST. BIRGITTA. 143
do not deny, though I have not found any), it must always be re
membered that Birgitta and the above-named mystics are
religious types of a very different kind. They are ecstatic, with
their visions centred around a bridal mysticism on the lines of
Bernhard s Sermones in Canticum, partly (Mechtild of Magde
burg) also devoted to the metaphysical trend of Dionysius Areo-
pagita and the Victorines. She, even in her visions, is prophe
tical and practical, intent on finding and interpreting the
intensely active and world-reforming will of God. To this type
belongs, for instance, Savonarola, and, in some degree also,
Hildegard of Bingen. Believe me, yours very respectfully,
KNUT B. WESTMAN.
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