And holding one another fast, they strive together in all these things with the eagerness from above so that My hidden wonders may be revealed. And he finds the other and loves him, recognising that that one too is a faithful person and like himself in any part of that labour that leads to Me. Therefore in my love this one searched in his soul for where to find the one who runs in the way of salvation. For I have hedged about the clefts of his heart, lest his mind raise itself up in pride or glory but rather that in all these things it would have fear and sorrow rather than joy or exuberance. For that person sorrows in the marrow and veins of his flesh, having soul and senses constrained and enduring great bodily suffering, so that no conflicting sense of peace may lie concealed in him but rather that that person may judge himself guilty in all his causes. Indeed the world does not have in him any joy or pleasure nor any activity in matters that belong to the world because I have drawn that one away from stubborn boldness, to be one who is fearful and trembling in his labours. But I have overthrown that one upon the ground that he may not rise up in any mental self-exaltation. 'I am the living yet obscure Light, enlightening the person whom I wish and whom I have searched out wonderfully according to My pleasure and placed among many wonders beyond the limit of the people of old, who saw so many hidden things in Me. It is difficult for any one of flesh and blood to find out how this comes about.īut to resume, when my girlhood was past, after I had come to the aforesaid age of full physical strength, I heard a voice from heaven saying: But I received them while waking and attentive, in a clear mind, with the eyes and ears of the inner person, in open places, according to God's will. But I have not received the visions that I saw in dreams, neither while I was sleeping nor in a frenzy nor with bodily eyes nor with the ears of the outer person nor in hidden places. But in the meantime up to that time at which God desired this to be made manifest by His grace, I sank down beneath a quiet silence. But I did not make that known to any person except to a certain few, also in the religious life, who were living the way of life as I was also myself. And I suddenly experienced the understanding of the exposition of books, that is, of the Psalter, the Gospel, and of the other orthodox volumes of both the Old and the New Testaments, but nevertheless I did not thereby enjoy the interpretation of the words of their text, nor the division of syllables, nor a knowledge of cases and tenses.īut indeed I had already experienced (as I was still doing) in myself in a wondrous manner the power and mystery of hidden and wonderful visions from my girlhood, that is, from the time that I was five years old, right up until the present time. This happened in AD 1141 when I was 42 years and 7 months old: A fiery light, of the greatest flashing brightness, coming out of a cloudless sky, flooded my entire mind and so inflamed my whole heart and my whole breast like a flame - yet it was not blazing but glowing hot, as the sun makes anything on which its rays fall hot. So then you also, o mortal - speak the things you see and hear and write them not according to yourself or any other person, but according to the will of the One Who knows, sees, and disposes all things in the hidden places of his mysteries.'Īnd again I heard a voice from heaven saying to me: 'Therefore speak these wonderful things and write and say them in the manner they were taught.' But because you are fearful in speaking and simple in explaining and unlearned in writing these things, say and write them not according to human speech nor the understanding of human creativity nor according to the will of human composition, but according to this rule: that you reveal by interpreting the things you see and hear among heavenly matters from above, in the wonders of God, just as also a hearer receiving his teacher's words makes them known according to the tenor of his speech, as he wishes, shows, and teaches. 'O weak mortal, both ash of ash and rottenness of rottenness, say and write what you see and hear. 1150-1, describing events of 1141Īnd behold, in the forty-third year of my passing course, while I was intent upon a heavenly vision with great fear and tremulous effort, I saw a great splendour, in which a voice came from heaven saying to me: Opening to Scivias Hildegard's Opening Declaration to Scivias, written ca.
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