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    Hildegard of Bingen: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom
    Hildegard of Bingen: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom
    Hildegard of Bingen: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom
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    Hildegard of Bingen: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom

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    Some call Hildegard of Bingen the original "rebel nun"—a woman of stunning visionary gifts who rose above the restrictions of her time to shape the destiny of Christianity. In Hildegard of Bingen, you are invited to encounter this remarkable woman, who dared to speak out with such strength and purpose that even the twelfth-century Church had to respect her divinely inspired wisdom.

    Hildegard's life gives us a blueprint for taking charge of our own spiritual lives. From her brilliant and iconoclastic writings on the spiritual journey,women's health, and herbal medicine to her courage in urging world rulers to choose peace over war, this enduring heroine shines across the centuries as an example of how to live fearlessly our own limitless radiance.

    Through her writings, musical and lyrical compositions, and compassionate bravery, Hildegard invites you today to a place of stillness where you can clearly hear the inner wisdom that is your birthright.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSounds True
    Release dateMar 1, 2008
    ISBN9781591798415
    Hildegard of Bingen: Devotions, Prayers & Living Wisdom

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      Hildegard of Bingen - Sounds True

      Publisher’s Note

      Sounds True’s Devotions, Prayers, and Living Wisdom series began with a desire to offer the essential teachings of great saints, mystics, and spiritual figures in a format that is compatible with meditation and contemplation. Each book contains poems, prayers, songs, and prose written by or in veneration of a figure who has transcended human confusion, and whose wisdom might awaken our own. It is our hope that these books will offer you insight, renewal, and companionship on the spiritual path.

      Editor’s Note

      Hildegard of Bingen inhabited that legendary line between genius and madness. Her inner world was a luminous web of visions and voices, scientific breakthroughs, artistic epiphanies, and emotional obsessions. This is a dance that has always intrigued me: the interplay of brokenness and brilliance, that numinous zone where chemical imbalance meets spiritual giftedness.

      Halfway through her life, Hildegard finally came to peace with her uncommon mind and spirit. Only then was her true genius able to flower with such potency that her wisdom ripples across nine centuries. In the midst of the equivalent stage of my own life’s journey as I was compiling this collection, I sat at Hildegard’s feet in awe, alert to the many clues she offers for cultivating an authentic life.

      Hildegard’s interests and talents were so diverse that it was impossible to fit them into tidy topical compartments. Following the mode of understanding Hildegard herself models, I relied on an ineffable intuition of those themes I felt were most important to her: praising the Creator; claiming our birthright as wisdom beings; navigating the human experience; the wild holiness of Nature; and the feminine face of the Divine.

      Since I do not read German, I drew most of the materials from the translations of others. My friends Devi and Allaudin Matthieu, whose artistic and spiritual collaboration breathes new life into nearly forgotten masterpieces, have composed versions of Hildegard’s antiphons that resonate with singular clarity and beauty. It is with their kind permission that I present them here.

      When I encountered other, more formal translations, I sometimes adapted them to achieve a more universally inclusive, and therefore more accessible language. A detailed list at the back of the book will guide the reader to each source. The passages in italics represent my own efforts to synthesize and offer some of Hildegard’s teachings in a more contemporary voice.

      I am deeply grateful for the wise guidance and generous contributions of Tessa Bielecki, Father David Denny, Father Bill McNichols, Nancy Casey, Matthew Fox, Nora Jacquez, Sara Morgan, Kaysi Contreras, Sarah Jane Freymann, Tami Simon, Kelly Notaras, and Haven Iverson.

      Special gratitude to the women who light my life, especially my mother, Susanna, my sister, Amy, my daughters, Daniela, Ganga, Yamuna and Kali, my granddaughters, Breanna and Sol, and the eternal memory of Jenny Starr.

      —Mirabai Starr

      August 2007

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      Opening Prayer

      O God,

      by whose grace your servant Hildegard,

      kindled with the fire of your love,

      became a burning and shining light

      in your House:

      Grant that I may also be aflame

      with the spirit of love and devotion,

      and walk before you as a child of light.

      O Sophia,

      Spirit of Wisdom,

      who speaks the language of God in our hearts,

      speak to me now;

      And infuse me with the courage to listen.

      Amen.

      —Mirabai Starr

      Image B

      Introduction

      The Divine Demand

      Speak and write! the voice from Heaven commanded.

      But Hildegard of Bingen, medieval visionary nun, remained silent.

      Hildegard was forty-three years old when her visions finally became so insistent that she could no longer contain the secret she had harbored since early childhood: the Holy One, identifying itself as the Living Light, spoke to her. It spoke to her regularly, its voice emerging from a swirl of spiraling light. It taught her the mysteries of the universe in stunning detail and with absolute clarity.

      "Oh mortal, who receives these things not in the turbulence of

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