This paper explores the mystical structure of education as Bildung in medieval theologian and Dominican friar Meister Eckhart's work and the 2010 French film "Of Gods and Men" ("Des Hommes et Des Dieux"). I start this paper with a short introductory sketch of the "Bildung" tradition, in order to situate my discussion of Eckhart within the more well-known humanist tradition. Here, I claim that "Bildung" (as we understand it today through the classic "Bildung" philosophers) points back to its theological heritage and horizon of meaning, when it is claimed as the general tekhnê (art, craft) of making oneself at home in the world with and through others. In my first step, I then explore the intellectual heritage of this mystical structure of "Bildung." Drawing on a range of Meister Eckhart's writings (esp. his German sermons), I elaborate three features pivotal to his concept of "Bildung" (as image-ing) of the imago Dei (image of God) in the human soul/action: (1) divine grace, (2) human cultivation and (3) the harmonisation of both in (what I shall call) 'careful gestures'. In my concluding second step, I illustrate this mystical structure of Eckhartian "Bildung"--with a particular focus on the emergence of careful gestures--through the motion picture "Des Hommes et Des Dieux."