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Hildegard of Bingen, Mystical Writings
Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies, editors
Hildegard's sense of the unity of creation and of the goodness of the natural world make her especially important for us today.
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"His work blossoms in man whom He made in His own image and likeness and in whom He expressed all creation according to fixed measure."
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“The dynamic life-force is ultimately the living energy of God.” Editors
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"God…is the unique life from which all life takes its breath, just as a ray comes from the sun."
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"That man who has seen through his understanding (which is the inner eye) what is hidden to external sight, and does not waver in this… - THIS is faith."
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“Men and women possess the power of reason, which is the noblest element in the soul.” Editors
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"All the living sparks are rays of His splendour, just as the rays of the sun proceed from the sun itself."
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"Our own nature, the rhythms of our minds and bodies, are an echo of the greater rhythm of the natural world; we do not exist in isolation, but are parts of an ecompassing whole." Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies, introduction
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“Humanity contains within itself elements of the universe as a whole.”
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“The Holy Spirit is life that gives life, moving all things. It is the root in every creature and purifies all things….It is radiant life, worthy of praise, awakening and enlivening all things.” Hildegard of Bingen
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"The soul has been stationed inside the work of the Lord's hands."
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