Hildegard of Bingen
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:20 pm
My interest in Hildegard of Bingen is immense and has only grown with time, till I have felt I need to make a place to accumulate research about her.
I feel deeply inspired by Hildegard's interest in and accomplishment of a wide range of subject matter. She was many things that had no name or word at the time and still, she continued to be and to seek her spiritual truth.
She lived from 1098 to 1179, in present-day Germany. She may have eight or fourteen when she was offered as an oblate to the Church by her parents, and enclosed.
Hildegard experienced intense visions from an early age, and when she was 42, she felt guided to record her visions. Her three volumes of visionary theology are called: Scivias, Liber Vitae Meritorum and Liber Divinorum Operum.
Hildegard's texts Phyisca and Causae et Curae were texts about natural science; the latter of which included cures involving herbs and precious stones.
Hildegard has been recognized as a saint by parts of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries, and she is one of four women out of thirty-five people names as a Doctor of the Church.
My principal interest in Hildegard is in her visionary texts which precede New Age philosophy. Hildegard formed unique and groundbreaking ideas about the cosmos and the energies therein. I hope to relate some of the reading I find most interesting here, as I consider Hildegard a crucial link between Christianity and alternative beliefs. However, when I have read in either subject, I have never heard Hildegard mentioned.
The only reason I know of her existence is because of a comment someone left in my web site guestbook in 1998. He thought my mystical character "Lady Hildegarde" was Hildegard of Bingen. In physical substance and deed they were likely very different, because my Hildegarde was a tempestuous siren/witch; however, in philosophy I found surprising similarities to what I was hoping to create in my character and this actual woman of great power.
Hildegard's existence makes me feel deeply validated for never fitting in anywhere, in any named spiritual path, vocation, or hobby; my captivated interest in everything both creative and scientific, and my yearning to seek truth, no matter where it takes me. Her spiritual insight came from personal visions and profound self-trust, rather than interpretation of a Scripture.
I have already started reading her first book and studying its diagrams of the Earth and its "layers." It is though she was inventing the universe herself, or at least trying to put together concepts that felt right to her. I find her singularity of thought very inspiring.
I hope to share from what I read here. Please comment, correct me, or share as you wish.
Like Hildegard, I'm seeking the Path for myself, even though it has no name.
I feel deeply inspired by Hildegard's interest in and accomplishment of a wide range of subject matter. She was many things that had no name or word at the time and still, she continued to be and to seek her spiritual truth.
She lived from 1098 to 1179, in present-day Germany. She may have eight or fourteen when she was offered as an oblate to the Church by her parents, and enclosed.
Hildegard experienced intense visions from an early age, and when she was 42, she felt guided to record her visions. Her three volumes of visionary theology are called: Scivias, Liber Vitae Meritorum and Liber Divinorum Operum.
Hildegard's texts Phyisca and Causae et Curae were texts about natural science; the latter of which included cures involving herbs and precious stones.
Hildegard has been recognized as a saint by parts of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries, and she is one of four women out of thirty-five people names as a Doctor of the Church.
My principal interest in Hildegard is in her visionary texts which precede New Age philosophy. Hildegard formed unique and groundbreaking ideas about the cosmos and the energies therein. I hope to relate some of the reading I find most interesting here, as I consider Hildegard a crucial link between Christianity and alternative beliefs. However, when I have read in either subject, I have never heard Hildegard mentioned.
The only reason I know of her existence is because of a comment someone left in my web site guestbook in 1998. He thought my mystical character "Lady Hildegarde" was Hildegard of Bingen. In physical substance and deed they were likely very different, because my Hildegarde was a tempestuous siren/witch; however, in philosophy I found surprising similarities to what I was hoping to create in my character and this actual woman of great power.
Hildegard's existence makes me feel deeply validated for never fitting in anywhere, in any named spiritual path, vocation, or hobby; my captivated interest in everything both creative and scientific, and my yearning to seek truth, no matter where it takes me. Her spiritual insight came from personal visions and profound self-trust, rather than interpretation of a Scripture.
I have already started reading her first book and studying its diagrams of the Earth and its "layers." It is though she was inventing the universe herself, or at least trying to put together concepts that felt right to her. I find her singularity of thought very inspiring.
I hope to share from what I read here. Please comment, correct me, or share as you wish.
Like Hildegard, I'm seeking the Path for myself, even though it has no name.