Hildegard von Bingen

[Rawhide68]

Today was not just another day for me, and I want to share it with you all.

I was half asleep listening to "buddha at the gas pump" when I heard the name
"Hildegard"... wasn't she letting herself paving in her self .. the guy said.

No that was'nt tru so I jumped up from bed, and asked wiki about it, and it wasn't true
kept reading about Hildegard von Bingen

Wow! kept reading, watched a clip from youtube.

From wiki
Born:Hildegard von Bingen, circa 1098, Bermersheim vor der Höhe, County Palatine of the Rhine, Holy Roman Empire.
Dead:September 17, 1179, Bingen am Rhein, County Palatine of the Rhine, Holy Roman Empire

Here is the clip

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5m7Vk-NQ7wI

She knew a lot!, and a true feminist in here time.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G8MGiPo5IxU

PS
Grasp that this is music from 1098 and 1179 we are listening to.

DS

[ExomatrixTV]

• Vision - From The Life Of Hildegard Von Bingen - Official U.S. Trailer:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aEI1QrZINeg

The story of twelfth-century Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen—a Christian mystic, author, counselor, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, channeller, visionary, composer and polymath—directed by New German Cinema legend Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa. VISION opens October 13th.

Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.

In Vision - from the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta (Marianne and Juliane, Rosa Luxemburg, Rosenstrasse) reunites with recurrent star Barbara Sukowa (Zentropa, Berlin Alexanderplatz) to bring the story of this extraordinary woman to life. In a staggering performance, Sukowa portrays von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Lushly shot in the original medieval cloisters of the fairytale-like German countryside, Vision is a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment.

• zeitgeistfilms.com/film/vision
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[Wind]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=v6qFCYRQKVA

[Kryztian]

Ten facts about Hildegard von Bingen
https://www.attenboroughcentre.com/n...ard-von-bingen

1. Hildegard von Bingen was the first ever named composer. Although she had no musical training, she is considered the most prolific composer of the middle ages. Her hauntingly beautiful music is arguably the most enduring to come out of medieval Catholicism and Hildegard’s music was first played in the UK to mark her octocentenary in 1979. The first recorded album A Feather on the Breath of God won a Grammy in 1983 and went on to sell more than half a million copies. German composer Klaus Zundel shared disco remixes of her soaring monodies with Ibizan ravers in the late 1990s.

2. Hildegard von Bingen lived until the age of 80 at a time when average life expectancy was 41.

3. At the tender age of three Hildegard first saw a heavenly light: a life was defined by rapturous multisensory visions. Contemporary analysis suggest she was a migraine sufferer, however.

4. She is celebrated as the founder of German naturalism and considered (one of) the first woman doctors and the first woman scientist. She compiled two substantial systematic works Physica - a study of botany, zoology, stones, metals and elements and Causae et Curae - a study of the causes and consequences of disease, with plant-based remedies.

5. Hildegard ran surgeries, offering advice on health in general, and sexual relations. Considering her lifetime’s confinement in monastic institutions, she had an impressive grasp of the heterosexual sex life: “When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man’s seed.”

6. Metal fans love her compositions and many 21st century music journalists cite the ‘origins of metal’ as sitting within Hildegard’s work.

7. From a contemporary perspective, Hildegard was the original ecological activist too: “The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!” ~ “Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.”

8. Many of Hildegards’s visions were prophetic. It seems she also foresaw the perils of fake news and manipulated social media: “We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”

9. Hildegard saw music as the ultimate connection with the divine. She tells us: “There is the music of Heaven in all things.”

10. One of Hildegard’s more mundane divine revelations was the design of a plumbing and draining system for her monastery.And this is fun… so one more….

11. “Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health)” Hildegard of Bingen.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_HkOSAW73E

[Bill Ryan]

I've only just discovered this thread. (See, what do I know about the Avalon forum...?? )

It's immediately obvious there's a huge feast of valuable information, wisdom and insights here, and maybe more than that. She lived in the 12th century (1098—1179) and in many ways was 900 years ahead of her time. And she might still be ahead of her time even if she lived today.

[Ravenlocke]

Thanks for finding this thread, I’ve been wanting to look it up recently but had forgotten her name. I’m bookmarking this now so I can find it.

[RunningDeer]

Hildegard of Bingen (1944) | Full Movie | Patricia Rutlige | James Runcie (47 min)

Hildegard of Bingen was one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages—an Abbess and woman of God, a visionary, naturalist, playwright, political moralist, and composer. Born in 1098, she was beset by the most extraordinary religious visions from the age of eight-visions which she wrote down, painted, dramatized, and set to music. This substantial legacy of her visionary writings and songs are unique for their mystic power and beauty. They serve as some of the most radiant and illuminating accounts of religious experience ever. Yet, despite this outpouring of religious creativity, her visions were called into questions, and she was put on trial by the Church in 1148.

This is the story of events leading up to that trial and of the trial itself. The setting is the monastery of St. Disibod on the Rhine in central Germany. Hildegard's befriending of a young persecuted girl and the care she shows for a dying crusader eventually lead her into conflict with her Abbot. She is placed under an interdict, which results in Hildegard and her nuns being forbidden from taking communion and singing the divine service. After enduring the punishment for some time, Hildegard protests, and it is her subsequent examination and trial by the Archbishop of Mainz around which the story revolves. This beautiful film features excerpts from Hildegard's own mystically powerful writing as well as her exquisite songs of prayer.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MlziyM3xWWs

[Lunesoleil]

I am sharing with you an extract from the book “the secrets of health and well-being” by Saint Hildegard of Bingen, the author Daniel Maurin,
There is a large part which results from the choice of the author, from these beliefs and certainly practice of the Catholic religion. Out of six chapters, only two caught my attention Heavenly food (quote: tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are)

It is a question of the foods of joy: body – soul – spirit, for Hildegarde it is not only a question of nourishing the body well, it is also necessary to nourish it well through mental hygiene, because the content of our thoughts is as important as the contents of our plate. These foods of joy: spelled, fennel, fruits, dairy products (the latter certainly has nothing to do with what is sold on the supermarket shelves) because in the past we went to get fresh milk from the farmer, good milk whole raw and it is not for nothing that today there has been a counter-use of dairy products and diseases associated with a diet overloaded with lactose.

There is still talk of ancient cereals, chestnuts, bread (but in the past the wheat grown was pesticide-free and it was not at all the same ears as those used for white bread today), vegetables in especially watercress and dandelion, the latter was widely consumed by our grandparents, you just had to go to the countryside to pick it between February and March before the flowers bloomed in April. Oleaginous fruits, the one recommended by Hildegarde, the almond for those who had an empty brain, I would add walnuts because the shape makes you think of the brain.

[…] Hildegard was not vegetarian, but she recommended practicing fasting regularly which consisted of consuming a kind of soup made from vegetables, spelled and selected spices taken in the morning and at midday and in the evening we prepared either a herbal tea, fruit or vegetable juice. Certainly a way to purify the body from meals that are usually too copious. A physical discipline that was combined with religious practice. Hildegard especially recommended river fish such as trout, pike, perch, roach, carp... regarding meats: chicken, deer, deer, duck, sheep, beef or the animals of the time hunted or raised on farms like butter, cheeses and eggs which have nothing to do in quality with what we can consume today!
Regarding plants, anthemis was recommended against black bile, it is found everywhere in spring and psyllium. What is still mentioned: mint, lavender, centipede, nettle, sage, wild thyme, hyssop, licorice, parsley, sage, wild thyme, bay leaf and some spices: galangal ( commonly used in traditional Asian cuisines), nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper, cumin, cloves, etc.

There would also be foods of sadness which Hildegard recommended avoiding or preparing in a certain way to make them more digestible. In cereals, barley and millet, for vegetables and legumes, leek unless soaked in vinegar, raw onions, cooked garlic, raw (cooked) cabbage in salad with nuts, cheese, black olives and white cabbage, which is more tender than red cabbage, watermelons, certain mushrooms, lentils (the more digestible coral variety). among the fruits: strawberries (unless you soak them in wine), peaches, plums or make a homemade pie. Two meats were kept aside: pork (in Muslim culture pork is considered impure) and horse. Spices ginger and mustard

1000 years ago, certain foods were not known to Hildegard because they appeared on the market much later.

Precious stones (the 12 chosen stones are indicated in the “Pectoral of the high priest”
Agate for intelligence
Blue chalcedony for peace and speech
Amethyst for a radiant complexion
Beryl for serenity
Chrysolite for the know-how
Diamond for fasting (it was recommended to suck it to save food before each meal)
Sardonyx for purity of the senses
Hyacinth for chastity
Jasper for problem solving
Onyx against sadness
Ruby against evil spirits
Sapphire for intelligence
Sardonyx for clear perceptions
(Source manual of medicine according to doctors Gottfried Hertzka and Wighard Strehlow)
Originally these 12 stones were associated with the 12 tribes of Israel, then later with the 12 signs of the zodiac wheel

There is a large part in the book of health and spirituality, the two being linked so that harmony is balanced between the body, mind and soul, choosing to nourish only the body and neglecting the health of the mind and soul will trigger imbalance by developing sadness associated with certain foods promoting unhappiness which has spread in our modern society through an exaggeration of junk food sold at 90% in supermarkets. supermarkets! This is what we must understand today, because everything is done not for our well-being, but to create false beliefs about miracle products. We are still in the Age of Pisces and the belief systems that have passed from generation to generation.
I think it will still take time before the shift in beliefs shifts from one point of view to another. In her time Hildegard was an avant-garde on health precepts that we have in our modern society overused to the point of repressing, what is really good for oneself. How many fake foods are sold in the market today, passing them off as health foods. What is important is to consume seasonal foods and not so-called miraculous foods, which are not exploited for simple profit and which sometimes come from the other side of the planet where we are going to exploit them. large scale. In the past, health foods were the fruits and vegetables that you harvested from your garden.

https://lunesoleil23.wordpress.com/2...s-dhildegarde/

[Lunesoleil]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N7ShvM3nL-c

Elisabeth de Caligny is a prodigious storyteller and is very popular in France during these free conferences on YouTube

This video is in French, use the English translator

[Lunesoleil]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9jojnqoDKEg

[Kryztian]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HYzPR0nwcmY

Holy spirit, making life alive,
moving in all things, root of all created being,
cleansing the cosmos of every impurity, effacing guilt,
anointing wounds.
You are lustrous and praiseworthy life,
You waken and re-awaken everything that is.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5zdUZ9WEyfM

[Lunesoleil]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CgqPvtwWamo

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6w0wE4zYKjY

[Kryztian]

How to make Hildegard Bingen's Cookie's of Joy and also a spiced violet wine that drives away melancholy. The wine seems like a good thing but since tastes have changed since the middle ages you might want to modify the cookie recipe if you want to experience joy.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aa1r9O0-PEE

[Lunesoleil]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jdLlkRIxJjA

[Ravenlocke]

Another article about Saint Hildegard Von Bingen’s, she was only three years old when she started having visions.

https://catholicsaintmedals.com/sain...ygnjNkUyMBUBTA

St. Hildegard Von Bingen

Hildegard was a remarkable woman that lived in the 12th century. She was of German descent and became a nun at the age of 15. She was a poet, a physician, as well as a moralist.

She was constantly rebuking princes, bishops and popes in a fearless manner when she did not approve of their actions. She was able to foretell the future and she wrote her visions down. An archbishop later declared that her visions had come from God. In total, she had 26 visions. She wrote more than 300 letters to kings and popes with prophecies and warnings.

Later, Pope Eugenius III read her writings and told her to write whatever the Holy Spirit told her to do. With the blessing of her pope, she built a large monastery and had such things as running water for her and the other nuns.

While St. Hildegard was revered as a saint for centuries and listed as a saint in the Roman Martyrology, she was not officially canonized until 2012, 833 years after her death. She is the patron saint of ecology as well as musicians and writers.

More about Saint Hildegard

A “Renaissance woman,” or “polymath,” St. Hildegard von Bingen is remembered for her many and diverse interests, talents, and abilities. Her writing covered many topics, including the subjects of medicine, botany, theology, and liturgy. She also composed songs, wrote plays, and experienced visions. A strong-willed and faith-filled woman, St. Hildegard served as an abbess and founded monasteries in Germany. Clearly blessed with many gifts, St. Hildegard used these capabilities to bring honor and glory to God throughout her life.

Though her exact date of birth is unknown, it is believed she was born around the year 1098 to parents Mechtild of Marxheim-Nahet and Hildebert of Bermersheim. Her family belonged to the lower nobility class of Count Meginhard of Sponheim. The youngest of ten children, St. Hildegard began experiencing visions from a young age.

When she was eight years old, she was offered by her family as an oblate to the church. At fourteen, she was enclosed with a nun, Jutta von Sponheim. Jutta was an anchoress and the abbess of a Benedictine monastery in Disibodenberg, in what is now Germany. She lived in a hut next to the monastery, which was a one-room structure with only one window, where her food was served. She refused to leave this hut, and taught several young women from this location. Jutta taught St. Hildegard to read and write, prayed the psalms with her, and shared her botanical knowledge with her as they gardened together. St. Hildegard learned to play the psaltery (harp), which led her to learn more about music, eventually composing her own songs.

When Jutta died in 1136, St. Hildegard was chosen by the Benedictine community to be the new abbess. Abbot Kuno of Disibodenberg wanted her to be prioress, which would place her under his authority. St. Hildegard desired more freedom for herself and the nuns, and so requested that they be relocated to Rupertsberg. This location would be a movement to poverty, living in a stone complex that had only been used previously as a temporary dwelling place. When Abbot Kuno disapproved of her request, St. Hildegard did not give up. Instead, she went higher up, to Archbishop Henry I of Mainz. The archbishop approved; however, Abbot Kuno still would not allow it. At that time, St. Hildegard was stricken with an paralyzing illness that prevented her from leaving her bed. She told the Abbot that if he would allow her to relocate, God would heal her. When the Abbot still would not relent, he too was stricken with this paralyzing illness. At this point, he gave his permission for St. Hildegard to relocate the monastery, and each of them sooner recovered. A monk named Volmar was chosen as provost, to be St. Hildegard’s confessor and scribe.

St. Hildegard first had visions at age three, but it was not until she was five that she understood that they were sent from God. Though she was unable to describe exactly what she saw, she said that she was able to experience the light of God through all five of her senses. She only shared what she saw with Jutta, who shared this information with Volmar when St. Hildegard was still young. At age 42, St. Hildegard was instructed in a vision to write what she saw and heard. Afraid to record her visions, St. Hildegard became ill. She took this as a sign that she must listen to God’s request and began to write. During the synod of 1147-1148, Pope Eugenus heard about St. Hildegard’s writings. He reviewed them and gave them his approval, stating that they were indeed inspired by the Holy Spirit.

The works of St. Hildegard are compiled in three volumes: first, musical compositions used for liturgy, as well as a musical morality play entitled “Ordo Virtutum”; second, nearly 400 letters written to popes, emperors, abbots and abbesses – one of the largest collections to have survived the Middle Ages, including sermons she preached through the 1160’s and 1170’s; and third, material relating to natural medicines and cures, information she gathered through her experience gardening and tending to the sick.

St. Hildegard’s visionary theology covered many religious topics. Most notable is her book “Scivias” (or “Know the Ways”), which told of creation and the Fall, Christ’s crucifixion and the beginning of the Church, and the “Symphony of Heaven,” which is one of her earliest musical compositions. Toward the end of her life, St. Hildegard commissioned a manuscript of “Scivias” to be decorated in great detail. This work survived the ages and was being stored in Dresden for safekeeping. During the evacuation of Dresden during WWII, the book was lost. The only remaining version is a hand-painted copy from the 1920’s.

The music written by St. Hildegard was mainly for use in liturgy and chanting. However, one of St. Hildegard’s greatest works is a morality play entitled “Ordo Virtutum,” which has parts for the human soul, sixteen virtues, and even the voice of the devil. In her other works, St. Hildegard often wrote of the Virgin Mary and the saints, in whom she found great inspiration.

St. Hildegard’s understanding of the natural world came from the story of creation, in which God tells man to rule over and subdue that which He had made. She believed in the healing properties of many items found in nature, because God had made them for the purpose of providing health to mankind. She read many books and did experiments with the herbs and various plants she grew, learning as much as she could and recording her observations. Many of her writings show an understanding of disease, illness, and health uncommon for the time in which she lived. She wrote of home remedies to treat common ailments, how to treat agricultural injuries such as cuts, burns, fractures, and dislocations, and stressed the importance of preventing infections by boiling water before use.

In addition to these works, St. Hildegard highly regarded as a rhetorician and preacher. During the Middle Ages, bans were in place preventing women from social participation and interpretation of scripture. However, due to her popularity among church officials (including popes, abbots, and abbesses), St. Hildegard was sought out to speak publicly. She went on four preaching tours, in which she spoke to clergy and laity, in private and in public.

On September 17, 1179, St. Hildegard von Bingen died. The nuns in her monastery reported seeing two streams of light in the skies, crossing over the room where she laid. After her death, St. Hildegard was one of the first persons to be submitted for the Roman canonization process, which was undergoing procedural changes. Four attempts were made at the canonization of St. Hildegard; however, the process took so long that they were never completed.

Due to this, St. Hildegard was regarded at the level of beatification officially, though many considered her a saint. She was added to the Roman Martyrology (the list of saints recognized by the Catholic Church) at the end of the 16th century. Most recently she was referred to as a saint by Saint Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. Subsequently, on May 10, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI declared an “equivalent canonization” for St. Hildegard, allowing for her to be officially recognized as a saint. She was declared a “Doctor of the Church” for her writings on October 7, 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. He stated that she was an “authentic teacher of theology and a profound scholar of natural science and music.” Her feast day is September 17. The relics of St. Hildegard are housed in Eibingen, Germany, in the pilgrimage church dedicated to her.

Patronage of St. Hildegard von Bingen

Due to the recent official canonization of St. Hildegard von Bingen, patronages are still being assigned to her, making it a challenge to find a universal list. However, many consider her to be the patron saint of that which she was interested in during her life, namely, the environment, writing, medicine, theology, music, and religious life.

St. Hildegard von Bingen in Art

Depictions of St. Hildegard von Bingen in art usually show her in the black and white Benedictine habit. Pictured with her are images that tell of her accomplishments and interests, such as a book, a harp, a quill, a monastery, and scrolls. Many times a heavenly light is shining down on her, symbolizing the visions she had of the light of God.

St. Hildegard von Bingen Prayers

Prayers written by St. Hildegard

O Great Father

O Great Father we are in great need;
Now therefore we implore, we implore you
Through your Word, by which you have
Filled us with [those things] we need;
Now it may please you Father for it befits you
To consider us with your help,
So that we might not fail and lest your name
Might be blackened in us
And through your name, deign to help us.

O Eternal Lord

O eternal Lord,
it is pleasing to you
to burn in that same fire of love,
like that from which our bodies are born,
and from which you begot your Son
in the first dawn before all of Creation.
So consider this need which falls upon us,
and relieve us of it for the sake of your Son,
and lead us in joyous prosperity.
-Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

O Shepherd of Souls

O Shepherd of souls
and o first voice
through whom all creation was summoned,
now to you,
to you may it give pleasure and dignity
to liberate us
from our miseries and languishing.
-Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

O Ruby Blood

O ruby blood
which flowed from on high
where divinity touched.
You are a flower
that the winter
of the serpent’s breath
can never injure.
-Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

O Leafy Branch

O leafy branch,
standing in your nobility
as the dawn breaks forth:
now rejoice and be glad
and deign to set us frail ones
free from evil habits
and stretch forth your hand
and lift us up.
by Hildegard von Bingen

Prayers for St. Hildegard’s Intercession

Prayer to St. Hildegard

Father, Source of Life,
you have bestowed on St Hildegard of Bingen
many excellent graces.
Help us to follow her example
of meditating on your ineffable Majesty
and to follow you
so that we, amidst the darkness of this world,
recognise the Light of your clarity
to cling to you without fail.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

Prayer to St. Hildegard

O Lord, you were generous with your gifts of grace to the virgin Hildegard. By following closely her example and teaching, may we pass from the darkness of this life into your marvelous light. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

[Kryztian]

The "Lingua Ignota" or, the secret language received by Hildegard von Bingen in her mustical visions and probably used in her monastery.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p3P132-d6K0

Here is the only know work by Hildegard written with words from the Lingua Ignota (mixed with Latin words). "O Orzchis Ecclesia"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lmDM6boBjxo