Chapter 5 argues that the spiritual experiences of late medieval holy women, in particular their doubts about the Eucharist and their own salvation, were in many respects responses to orthodox figurations of sacred embodiment and the pollution fears that were repeatedly projected onto women. In this context, this chapter examines the Scale of Perfection, a work composed by the English writer Walter Hilton (d. 1394) who manages a set of ongoing contests over rival notions of perfection. Following a growing insistence among orthodox writers on Eucharistic devotion, the Scale subsumes the spiritual legitimacy of charismatic women to the sacrament and does so in a way that marginalizes the devotion of such women to their angels. It is also within the Scale and other late medieval religious writing that the prominent and intersecting ideals of perfection, the virtues, and sacred embodiment came to express a deepening suspicion of angelic charisms.