![]() Her earliest biographer proclaimed her a saint, and miracles were reported during her life and at her tomb. ![]() She traveled widely throughout Germany, evangelizing to large groups of people about her visions and religious insights. She also for amusement contrived her own language. Her numerous other writings included lives of saints two treatises on medicine and natural history, reflecting a quality of scientific observation rare at that period and extensive correspondence, in which are to be found further prophecies and allegorical treatises. About 1147 Hildegard left Disibodenberg with several nuns to found a new convent at Rupertsberg, where she continued to exercise the gift of prophecy and to record her visions in writing.Ī talented poet and composer, Hildegard collected 77 of her lyric poems, each with a musical setting composed by her, in Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum. The finished work, Scivias (1141–52), consists of 26 visions that are prophetic and apocalyptic in form and in their treatment of such topics as the church, the relationship between God and humanity, and redemption. A committee of theologians subsequently confirmed the authenticity of Hildegard’s visions, and a monk was appointed to help her record them in writing. Having experienced visions since she was a child, at age 43 she consulted her confessor, who in turn reported the matter to the archbishop of Mainz. Hildegard was 15 years old when she began wearing the Benedictine habit and pursuing a religious life. Saint Hildegard was born of noble parents and was educated at the Benedictine cloister of Disibodenberg by Jutta, an anchorite (religious recluse) and sister of the count of Spanheim. This is one of Awaken ’s Dream Interviews, conducted by Donna Quesada, and All Answers are Verbatim from Saint Hildegard of BINGEN. It has been a tremendous honor to spend this time with you. Therefore, paltry soul, instructed as you are in your inner being by mystical inspiration, and although you are trampled by the male form because of Eve ’ s transgression, speak nevertheless of the fiery work of salvation which this most certain vision reveals to you!ĪWAKEN: You have always been, and continue to be a great source of inspiration and empowerment, as a strong woman and a true being of light. May they be ashamed who should be showing righteousness to my people! Through the fickleness of their own morals, they refuse to proclaim openly the justice which they know for themselves! They have no will to cease from their evil desires, which stick to them as though they were their teachers, causing them to run away from the face of the Lord, so that they are ashamed to speak the truth. Shout and tell! And write down these my mysteries which you see and hear in the mystical vision! Do not be afraid, but tell the mysteries as you understand them in the spirit, as I speak them through you. Insignificant earthly creature! Though as a woman you are uneducated in any doctrine of fleshly teachers in order to read writings with the understanding of the philosophers, nevertheless you are touched by my light, which touches your inner being with fire like the burning sun.
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