Hildegard of Bingen's Prophetic Enchanted Ecology - 3 Quarks Daily

Hildegard of Bingen's Prophetic Enchanted Ecology - 3 Quarks Daily

Maria Popova at Marginalia: At seventy-six, Hildegard of Bingen — poet, painter, healer, composer, philosopher, mystic, medical writer — has just finished writing and illustrating her third and farthest-seeing book: The Book of Divine Works, chronicling seven years of prophetic visions. God had first begun speaking to her in “the voice of the Living Light” when she was three, but she never suffered the hubris of a self-appointed prophet — rather…