1/11/2024 0 Comments Social microcosm meaningI can measure neither height, nor length, nor breadth in it and I call it "the reflection of the living Light." And as the sun, the moon, and the stars appear in water, so writings, sermons, virtues, and certain human actions take form for me and gleam. The light which I see thus is not spatial, but it is far, far brighter than a cloud which carries the sun. And I am constantly fettered by sickness, and often in the grip of pain so intense that it threatens to kill me, but God has sustained me until now. So, I have never fallen prey to ecstasy in the visions, but I see them wide awake, day and night. I do not hear them with my outward ears, nor do I perceive them by the thoughts of my own heart or by any combination of my five senses, but in my soul alone, while my outward eyes are open. And because I see them this way in my soul, I observe them in accord with the shifting of clouds and other created things. In this vision my soul, as God would have it, rises up high into the vault of heaven and into the changing sky and spreads itself out among different peoples, although they are far away from me in distant lands and places. She saw and heard what she described as, "The voice of the Living Light." She wrote:įrom my early childhood, before my bones, nerves, and veins were fully strengthened, I have always seen this vision in my soul, even to the present time when I am more than seventy years old. From childhood, she received visions and divine messages. She would continue to suffer from severe illnesses throughout her life. She was often blind and unable to walk well through her teens. Because of her illness, she received very little education. She was a sickly child, who was given to the care of the Benedictines at the age of eight. Saint Hildegard, in my opinion, is very likely the greatest herbalist who ever lived.
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