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Hildegard von Bingen (feat Nicki Apostolow)

from Eros in the Natural World by Kouns & Weaver

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In a Celtic Monastery on the banks of the Rhine River in 12th Century Germany a gifted theologian, naturalist, composer, poet, visionary painter, geologist, botanist, linguist and mystic lived and was a Prioress for a group of Benedictine nuns. Her name was Hildegard of Bingen. She was a revolutionary figure in the medieval church, railing tirelessly against the corruption and nepotism that plagued it. She composed some of the most striking monophonic chants, created her own language, wrote books about rocks and herbalism, had paintings from her visions with accompanying texts collected and published and wrote the first Passion Play. Perhaps, the earliest Naturalist she wrote in one of the texts that accompanied her dazzling paintings: “There is no creation that does not have radiance. Be it greenness or seed, blossom or beauty. It could not be creation without it” She steadfastly believed that mercy was more important than law and this led to an incident that barred her canonization for centuries. She tussled with the clergy of Mainz about whether a buried man who had been excommunicated from the church should be exhumed from sacred ground and moved, because she insisted that he had reconciled and made peace with Divinity at the time of his death. The 20th Century Theosophist Rudolph Steiner believed that Vladimir Solvyev, whose Sophianic visions nearly perfectly mirrored hers was her reincarnated Spirit returning to the earth but I say that she is born again in every child that protects and fiercely loves our beautiful, broken world.

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from Eros in the Natural World, released June 20, 2021

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