Hildegard was born in 1098 in a village near Alzey, Rhenish Hesse, a pair of noble. Satuli weak from an early age, Hildegard was sent to eight years in the convent of Disibodenberg. But the real cause of this transfer is supposed to be another. The girl always shows her dowry with her more often, or clairvoyance. Understanding, reasoning on this information, as the facts are easy.
At that time people, especially women, considered magical or supernatural gifts that they had to choose between two paths: to go into a convent and become mystics or be accused of witchcraft. The noble or at least those with more economic opportunities chose the first option, while the others were automatically condemned. I have already spoken on the Inquisition in the post.
short, Hildegard has all it takes to become a witch with the flakes. Fortunately, the parents decide to act before it is too late and recommend to the daughter Jutta of Sponheim, another young aristocrat who takes the task of educating Hildegard. And so the child can reveal all of its incredible potential to become an adult, a very influential person outside the monastery. Despite having a quiet character, in fact, Hildegard did not send word to anyone and is not afraid of anything. Quarrels with the Emperor Frederick Pope legitimized when they oppose the three anti-popes, ending their friendship, and she responds in kind to some of the monks who criticize his style too "free." In fact, Hildegard uses dressing magnificently during the holidays and is adorned with jewelry of her companions, because the woman is for her benevolence and charity of Christ. But this woman is famous for having revived the concept, foreshadowed by the "macho" of the Church, the feminine side of God the Creator He used it to call God Mother, identifying this aspect of the feminine personification of Wisdom (the Hebrew Shekinah cabalistic and that I talked so much about the old post). And Wisdom is the inspiration for his mystical visions that Hildegard contains the following books:
Scivias (you know the way): consists of three parts, with a clear reference to the Trinity. The first illustrates the nature of God and the cosmos, the choirs of angels, the creation of man. In the second speaks of the Fall and the Church. In the third concludes with the divine virtues and with the advent of the Kingdom of God
Meritorum Liber Vitae (Books of the merits of life): describes in detail the virtues and human penis, with consequences in the afterlife
Liber Divinorum Operum (The book of divine works): basically a Christian cosmology, however, focused on the role of men and women (to emphasize the fairness of the two genres to the holy and the special dignity that she was the female sex ) in creation, seen as co-creator next to the angels and God's interests Hildegard
not end there. She is passionate about music and art, composing Carmina and the Ordo Virtutum (description of the Christian virtues to music), accompanying all of his writings with thumbnails worthy of being on a par with those of the most skilled ammanuensi. But are the works of esoteric flavor of natural magic to be more precise, to make a figure so important. These works are divided into:
Physica (Natural History): collect botanical and medical knowledge of his era. Is the healing power of herbs and stones, covering both scientific and holistic psychology. It is striking that the proposed remedies are valid, with slight modifications, to this day.
Liber causae et Curae (Book of the diseases and remedies): classifies various psycho-physical ailments of the person deciding on the basis of symptoms and type of patient the proper care. Important because it introduces the concept of "personal care", that is specific to each person (in fact, as we know today, the drugs may have different effects depending on who takes them).
Before concluding with the comment, I must mention the interest of Hildegard for the field we now call sexology. What revolutionary for its time and certainly not trivial. Hildegard fact gives great value to sex, seen as vital energy, both procreative point that the psychological-emotional. Body and soul are united to her, and then there is nothing shameful in carnal relations. Also stands out, which is confirmed by scholars, sexuality experienced by humans and that experienced by the woman. The man tends to be more "hot" and passionate, physically linked to the instinct, the woman rather more sober and reflective, as it mainly involved psychologically and emotionally. No wonder the rest of these statements. Christianity itself has never condemned the sex, he gave only the limits. The little people who have too much respect, like Tertullian (eh, was obsessed!), St. Augustine (well, he had his reasons), and Fathers of the Church some Westerners do not represent Christianity in its entirety. Clement of Alexandria stated that there is not one organ in the body of which to be ashamed and the major Western mystics such as Hildegard did not reject all human body size. During the Middle Ages to demonize the body we have thought a lot about the Cathars and the various Gnostic groups, precisely contrary to the Christian mystics (St. Francis composed the Canticle of the Creatures in open opposition to the Cathar view of the world) Just
body size is the basis of esoteric thought St. Hildegard. Its great merit is that it has enhanced the magic conception of the cosmos that had the pagans, or natural unity of the macrocosm the human microcosm. As in ancient magic nature had its own life, in the writings of Hildegard Viriditas it is pervaded by the vital energy that is placed by God in creation. By virtue of this energy plants, rocks and natural compounds act on the human body by changing both the physical and mental. This medicine is therefore holistic as it does not split the body from the psychic sphere and considers the individual parts on the basis of everything. The disease appears as Hildegard alteration of the interior of the human body, a lack of Viriditas, and therefore treatable with the help of natural elements that are full of vital energy and act as ricarira. Man può vivere bene solo se vive in armonia con il creato e, attraverso di esso, con Dio e con l'energia verdeggiante del cosmo.
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ps: per chi è interessato, ho molti documenti su Ildegarda.
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