Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works: With Letters and Songs
A twelfth-century abbess saw the cosmos as one living body, wrote the music and medicine too, and told popes what she thought.
The twelfth-century abbess recorded visions of the cosmos as a single living body, and wrote music, medicine and theology alongside them. This edition gathers the visionary work with her letters and songs, showing a woman who corresponded with popes and emperors and told them exactly what she thought.
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Maria Popova
In one of her visions, collected in the wonderful translation Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works: With Letters and Songs (public library), she paints a menacing picture of a world in which we have grown disconnected from the greening life-force of our own souls.
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