 For the radical medieval mystic like Eckhart the knowledge revealed in the experience of this divine spark is utterly self-authenticating. Therefore, it need not be subjected to the judgment of an institutional church. So too Daly writes: “she knows that only she can judge her self” (1978: 378). Also important in this strain of thought is the theme of the dispossession/repossession of the true, divine self. It is a powerful theme in Hegel (who was influenced by medieval mysticism) and in Feuerbach, and it also pervades Daly’s philosophy of religion. Hegel decries human beings who let themselves be “robbed of freedom, their spirit, their eternal and absolute element” (1795 [1948: 162]) and who then take “flight to deity” (1795 [1948: 163]). He insists that now (ca. 1800) is the time for persons to “repossess the treasures formerly squandered on heaven” (1795 [1948: 159]). Feuerbach takes up this same motif and makes it the dominant theme of his whole critique of religion.  Daly refers to “Stolen female energy” (1978: 367), to “our stolen original divinity” (1978: 41) and urges repossession. She does not say what this leaves for men, who have been living off women, the “generators of energy” (1978: 319).  Finally, along with Feuerbach, Daly says simply “we are divinity”.