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An aside: what happened with my car did have some life journey benefits, since if I hadn’t needed to go there to get help, I probably would have walked into that church in maybe six to eight months, and it probably would have been weird, because “I thirst” is actually a far less weird lead-in than, “I’ve been reading about the Samaritans; I hear that….”—right? And maybe I was supposed to go when I did because I heard a great sermon that explained my personal history to me…. And yeah, it’s oddly supporting to know—I mean, they couldn’t really help like that—but just to know that my crazy mom and I aren’t the only two spiritual gangsters with cash flow stickage, right…. My mom almost doesn’t want…. But yeah: it’s funny; I really liked the service and the sermon and the vibe; it was kinda what my old church ~wanted~ to be, on some level—the two sermons wouldn’t have been radically different, especially as words, right…. But yeah, I would’ve felt weird asking my old church for that kind of money, because I feel like their best days are behind them, and it’s not right to toss dirt in their grave, basically, right…. (When I first went to church I had no notion of anything but survival, whether I asked for something or not)…. But yeah, I love the ~message~ of my new church, but I also asked, because I assumed that the non-denom churches are doing better than the museum churches, right: don’t the statisticians say the unaffiliated (I mean, they’re kinda post-evangelical, post-Baptist, except that that’s INCREDIBLY misleading, right: there’s not a lot of the Indian hunter in them, right: they’re actually non-monochromatic, right….) are the ones growing their ranks, right….

There’s still so much about money I don’t understand.

But yeah: when money is better, I’ll have to rebuy this. I didn’t hate it or even disagree: but I didn’t understand it; like there wasn’t some word or concept that had me running to a search engine, right—but I didn’t feel the vibe. I didn’t vibrate on the same level as I did. My new pastor in his sermon explained my problem perfectly. I was Peter as the Farewell Talk in John gets going, right after Judas leaves. (And man, was I preoccupied about Judas, right. “The children have been betrayed! People aren’t being nice to the children ~~~!!!”). The sermon was about love, and about looking at what gets in the way of love. Vince was all, We all think we know love, right. Nobody reads a book that talks about Jesus and love and the children and everything, sober kindness and decent tenderness and all the rest of it, and throws down their napkin and says, No! I won’t live in a world where we love the children! ~you know? But love is scary and confusing, so we distract ourselves. First Peter asks Jesus which heaven realm he’s booked a cruise on, you know—‘tell me about heaven’. For many of my former-fellows, the Episcopalian et ceteras, this probably takes a modern, tech-y form of, like, Tell us why the dinosaurs died, Jesus. Fix my smartphone if you are the Son of God, and tell me which…. ~you know? But I was new age enlightenment-infused, and so more trad-y in some sense, right. “Will dolphins ever be reborn as Plato? What about Buddha, Jesus? Where can we score his books?” And nothing’s ever Totally Bad, and in effect these are beautiful things: the mind can be beautiful, but used as a substitute for love, to use the mind as avoidance…. It’s vain, you know. It’s caput. Bullshit…. And then, yeah, “Jesus I’ll die…. I’ll sacrifice myself for you, man…. Drive the nails right through my eyeballs….” You know: I’ll sacrifice myself for the poor people, and I’ll inspire all the rich people and all the happy people and all the good people to be nice and right and good to be sacrificed and miserable and proper: AND THEN, things will finally be good for the children, because the candy factory owners won’t be destroying the religion of the flower-children, right….

And that’s basically why, I mean, I shied away from formally impaling love, you know: but it’s like, I couldn’t get anything from it, and when Hildegard talked about love and nature and beauty or whatever she talked about, spirit-beauty and deep, deep love, I was like….

I would stare off into the middle distance and muse, Such strange informations….

There’s not a lot of, “tell me about the Buddha realms, Jesus” or “crush the candy factory owners, Jesus”, in Hildegard, you know: any more than she was plotting with the religious people to get the other religious people strung up, you know, like…. Well, like the bloody Church from the conversion of Europe, until…. I mean, I guess after a thousand years, give or take a few centuries, it kinda got attenuated, you know: the burnings and the killings, right…. Some people aren’t even afraid to look foolish to such an extent that they’ll say it wasn’t such a permissible thing, right, to be so persecutory and mind-bomb-y…. And you know, not to end on a negative note, but the right looks at that and says: But maybe if the Muslims start a nuclear war…. (shakes head sadly) Won so many wars for Jesus: but can I say we’ve won a ~Nuke~ war….

And yeah: then there are also people like me, up until I guess less than a year ago, who are almost making progress, almost doing all they can, but for whom love is a word hidden in untranslatable runes, carefully hidden beneath Freya’s dressing-table, right….

(shrugs) I’ll have to buy this book again. I’m pretty sure it will stay in print.

“Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world – everything is hidden in you.” –Hildegard of Bingen

She was a Benedictine abbess, artist, composer, dietician, naturalist, poet, travelling preacher, mystic, and political consultant. She was a self-doubter with acute certainty in a merciful and mysterious God; a gifted healer who suffered from illness her whole life. Meet the incomparable Hildegard of Bingen. Nourishing, challenging, and idea-bursting, her writings will stir and awaken your soul.

no idea where or when I bought this: will note when I remember ha

> Scribd : https://fr.scribd.com/document/395445794/De-Bingen-Hildegarde-Les-causes-et-les-...

> « Si Adam était resté dans le paradis, il aurait gardé la très douce santé de
cette merveilleuse demeure, de même qu’un baume très fort émet une excellente
odeur ! ; maintenant, au contraire, l’homme contient en lui du poison,
du flegme et diverses maladies. »
—Hildegarde de Bingen, Les causes et les remèdes (XIIe siècle).
Jérôme Million, 1997.

> Chevallier Marjolaine. Hildegarde de Bingen, Les causes et les remèdes, traduction du latin et présentation de Pierre Monat, Grenoble, éd. Jérôme Millon, coll. Atopia, 1997.
In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 78e année n°3, Juillet-septembre 1998. p. 366. … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/rhpr_0035-2403_1998_num_78_3_5514_t1_0366_0000_2

> Moulinier Laurence. Pierre Monat, trad. — Hildegarde de Bingen, Les causes et les remèdes. Grenoble, Millon, 1997 (Atopia).
In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 41e année (n°164), Octobre-décembre 1998. pp. 411-414. … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/ccmed_0007-9731_1998_num_41_164_2735_t1_0411_0000_3

> Foket Monique. Hildegarde de Bingen, Les causes et les remèdes. Traduction du latin et présentation de Pierre Monat. 1997.
In: Revue théologique de Louvain, 32ᵉ année, fasc. 1, 2001. p. 146. … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/thlou_0080-2654_2001_num_32_1_3137_t1_0146_0000_2

A testament to her fame in her day is that her complete written works survive, including full scores of her music. 1100 years later, and still of huge interest, here they are, carefully produced by the nuns of her convent. She is profoundly original, thinking deeply about all sorts of things, at times far before her time, and but still very much a part of her time. The dense medieval prose is hard to read for us today, it's a time so long ago and a society far removed, but her inspiration and grace will touch all those who take the time to study it. And if you get one of the many recordings of her music, you can follow along with the scores here as well.

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Another lovely book of poetry by a saint who is not as well known as she should be. Barbara Newman, the translator, presents Hildegard's Latin text on one page and splendidly provides two English translations: a "frankly and blithely interpretive" verse translation on the facing page, and a literal prose translation in a footnote at the end of each piece.

Her introduction discusses some of the difficulty facing a translator of poetry and of the Symphonia in particular, and explains some of her choices:

Medieval poetry in general favored hyperbole, and Hildegard in particular was no advocate of the via negativa. Her way of approaching the ineffable was to make the strongest positive statement her tongue could express. Modern English, on the other hand, is a language of understatement, and in free verse it is almost a truism that less is more. So, in order to convey the rapt intensity of Hildegard's praise, I have actually had to tone down some of her expressions.(62)

We have some of Hildegard's music, as well as her texts. I found both CDs and MP3s available for sale at Amazon -- and in my very first venture into this modern world of buying and downloading music, I was able to purchase a single track, O Ignis Spiritus (O Fiery Spirit), to play at class tonight while I read the English verse translation to begin my class presentation on ecological pneumatology.

really cool herbal remedies, gonna start using these instead of trusting BIG PHARMA

> LE LIVRE DES OEUVRES DIVINES, de Hildegarde de Bingen (Albin Michel, 1989). — Dans son dernier écrit, la célèbre bénédictine allemande du XIIe siècle répond à la confusion de son époque par dix grandioses visions. Le pari lumineux qu’elle lance ainsi, celui de l’ordre de Dieu, de la nature et de l’homme, demeure étonnamment actuel en ce nouveau siècle. (Spiritualités Vivantes)

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Bingen-Le-Livre-des-oeuvres-divines--Visions/1637...
> Voir un extrait : https://books.google.fr/books?id=8Z9eAgAAQBAJ&hl=fr&printsec=frontcover&...

> LA THÉOLOGIE COSMIQUE D'HILDEGARDE — Dans six ans, huit siècles nous sépareront de cette religieuse qui reçut des révélations divines sur l’origine des maladies et leur traitement dans une vision holistique de l’être humain. « Corps, âme et esprit ». Ces écrits ont été redécouverts au siècle dernier. Depuis, des médecins ne cessent de s’étonner de la justesse de ses conseils au point que l’on puisse parler d’une « médecine de sainte Hildegarde ». Son oeuvre nous parle de la place dans le cosmos, de respect de l’environnement, de diététique, de guérison, du rôle de la femme. Hildegarde de Bingen saisit visuellement des informations qui dépassent la seule perception rétinienne. Clé de voûte de son oeuvre : ses « visions ». Trois grands livres dont le célèbre Scivias, décrivent un univers infini en expansion perpétuelle, proche de celui des astrophysiciens actuels. Ces deux traités de médecine douce, les seuls composés en Occident au XIIe siècle, font aujourd’hui encore autorité. Hildegarde incarne merveilleusement cet autre savoir, intuitif, écologique, visionnaire. Rappelons que le terme de « mystique » s’adapte très bien à Hildegarde puisque c’est celui ou celle qui, sous la motion divine, portée par l’oeuvre du Créateur, s’inspire de la révélation pour se laisser diriger par les miracles et par les grâces de la pédagogie divine, sur le chemin de la perfection qui mène de cette terre et de ce ciel vers les « nouvelles terres » et les « nouveaux cieux », du vieil homme somatopsychique à l’homme nouveau pneumatisé.
Quatre livres essentiels pour comprendre cette grande mystique rhénane :
• Hildegarde de Bingen - Conscience inspirée du XIIe siècle, Régine Pernoud, éd. du Rocher.
• Le livre des oeuvres divines : vision d’Hildegarde de Bingen, Bernard Gorcex, éd. Albin Michel.
• Sainte Hildegarde : la santé entre ciel et terre, Daniel Maurin, éd. Trois Fontaines.
• Sainte Hildegarde de Bingen, Ellen Breindl, éd. Dangles. (Albert SARALLIER)
—Nouvelles Clés, (HS 2), «Se guérir», (p. 91)

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Hildegard was a Benedictine nun and one of the most prolific and original women writers of the Middle Ages. Arranged thematically, this new edition of her work brings together selections from her visionary trilogy, her treatise on medicine and the natural world, and her songs and correspondence. The volume includes a chronology of her life and times, bibliography, select discography, explanatory notes, glossary, and connecting commentary.

> Hildegarde de Bingen (1098-1179) eut ses premières visions dès l'âge de quatre ans. Elles ne cessèrent qu'à sa mort. Ce n'est qu'en 1141 pourtant, alors qu'elle avait 42 ans, qu'une voix lui ordonna d'en parler : « Écris ce que tu vois et ce que tu entends ». Ce qu'elle fit dans un ouvrage en trois parties: Connais les voies du Seigneur. Mais ces visions, Hildegarde ne s'est pas contentée de les raconter et de les commenter, elle les a fait représenter picturalement sous forme d'enluminures, et cette théologie en images a eu une grosse influence sur la spiritualité du Moyen Âge.
Son récit commence ainsi: « En l'année 1141... une lumière de feu d'un éclat extraordinaire, venant du ciel ouvert, traversa tout mon cerveau et enflamma tout mon coeur... Et voici que tout à coup, je pouvais savourer la connaissance du contenu des livres saints... J'entendis une voix du ciel qui me disait: « Proclame ces merveilles, écris les choses que tu as apprises par tes visions et dis-les ». » Par la suite, elle rapporte trois visions de la Trinité qui lui est apparue sous forme de cercles, de masse flamboyante et de colonne tripartite. Mais celles-ci s'élargissent à toute la création : « Mon âme monte dans les hauteurs du ciel et dans les diverses régions de l'air, et se promène parmi des peuples différents... »
Hildegarde qui dit « n'avoir jamais souffert la défaillance de l'extase » avait ces visions en pleine possession de ses moyens et les rapporte avec beaucoup de détails : « Ces choses, je les vois seulement en mon âme, et les yeux de mon corps restent ouverts... Je les vois, éveillée, le jour et la nuit... la lumière que je vois n'est pas localisée, mais elle est infiniment plus brillante que la nuée qui enveloppe le soleil... Pour moi cette lumière se nomme l'ombre de la lumière vivante. Comme le soleil, la lune et les étoiles se réfléchissent dans les eaux, ainsi les écrits, les discours, les vertus et certaines oeuvres humaines revêtues de formes resplendissent pour moi dans cette lumière. » (p.233) — Alain DELAYE

> Gouguenheim Sylvain. Pierre Monat, éd. trad. — Hildegarde de Bingen. « Scivias ». « Sache les voies » ou « Livre des visions ». Paris, Cerf, 1996 (Sagesses chrétiennes).
In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 41e année (n°164), Octobre-décembre 1998. pp. 414-415. … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/ccmed_0007-9731_1998_num_41_164_2735_t1_0414_0000_2

> Haquin André. Hildegarde de Bingen, Scivias. «Sache les voies» ou Livre des visions. Présentation et traduction de Pierre Monat (coll. Sagesses chrétiennes). 1996.
In: Revue théologique de Louvain, 28ᵉ année, fasc. 4, 1997. pp. 540-541. … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/thlou_0080-2654_1997_num_28_4_2917_t1_0540_0000_2

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