![]() The more I read and learn, the more I realize what an incredible figure Hildegard of Bingen was. She a lot about judgment and the fallen nature of mankind, her theology is what you would expect from her day, a very God vs. What the New Age wants to get in bed with. Her insights on the images she saw point to someone who wasn't crazy, but who could speak coolly to ecstatic visions. Sort of reminded me of visions Dante presented. Then came to learn that she was both a very early female Christian thinker and mind of her day, as well as being something of an icon to a quasi-mystical, New Age and heterodox niche of spirituality today.I found Hildegard's visions to have rather imaginative, dream/nightmare-esque qualities to them. Sort of reminded me of Hildegard caught my interest years ago when I realized how popular albums of her music were at the library I worked at compared to everything else in our religious section. Hildegard caught my interest years ago when I realized how popular albums of her music were at the library I worked at compared to everything else in our religious section.
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