Julie, I have a very heavy work load at present, so will have to bow out of this thread after this post, but I feel I owe you a response.
I want to point out, first, that I never said the works I mentioned have no importance. I don’t know where you got that idea. And that the writers were women has nothing to do with it, since I meant male neo-formalists as well.
As for women’s issue aspect, in addition to Hildegaard and Emily, mentioned earlier, I can name Kathleen Raine, Mirabai, Catherine of Siena, the Sybil of Cumae, my wife Daphne. And many more. The point is that there is hermetic profundity and intuition that is not by Man, as you call it. Whoever does it, that is what I most want. To identify it as only male is to negate the women saints, mystics, seers, sybils, prophets. I know you don’t want to do that, Julie, but that’s the binary you’re setting up, or seem to be.
And with that, I have to get some rest. I realize we are not going to see eye to eye on this, and that is ok. I didn’t expect nearly anyone would agree with me here. And that is ok too.
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