EVIL: Love And Inadequacy
A little while ago, during a vision, I happened upon something. Not intentionally. Or, at least, I don’t think it was intentionally. I raised my eyebrows at it and decided that I didn’t want to know...
View ArticleTALES FROM BEYOND THE HORIZON: Orange, Chocolate, Milk
It was the first time I received that command: Eat orange, chocolate, milk. I was a young woman. With long hair. A car of my own. I had graduated from Berkeley. Was working somewhere. I lived in a...
View ArticlePOETRY: Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney
I Inishbofin on a Sunday morning. Sunlight, turfsmoke, seagulls, boatslip, diesel. One by one we were being handed down Into a boat that slipped and shilly-shallied Scaresomely every time. We sat tight...
View ArticleMYSTICISM: First Vision—On The Oright Of Life (1) by Hildegard of Bingen
From: Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works, With Letters and Songs And I saw within the mystery of God, in the midst of the southern breezes, a wondrously beautiful image. It had a human form,...
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From: Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works, With Letters and Songs I, the highest and fiery power, have kindled every spark of life, and I emit nothing that is deadly. I decide on all reality....
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From: Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works, With Letters and Songs And again I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me: God, who created everything, has formed humanity according to the divine...
View ArticleMYSTICISM: First Vision—On The Oright Of Life (4) by Hildegard of Bingen
From: Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works, With Letters and Songs Another golden ring surrounds the head of this appearance, for the Roman Catholic faith, which has spread throughout the entire...
View ArticleMYSTICISM: First Vision—On The Oright Of Life (5) by Hildegard of Bingen
From: Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works, With Letters and Songs A wing emerges from each side of the figure’s neck. Both wings rise above the ring and are joined there because the love of God...
View ArticleMYSTICISM: First Vision—On The Oright Of Life (6) by Hildegard of Bingen
From: Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works, With Letters and Songs On the topmost part of the right wing’s curve you can see the head of an eagle with fiery eyes. In those eyes a choir of angels...
View ArticleMYSTICISM: First Vision—On The Oright Of Life (7) by Hildegard of Bingen
From: Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works, With Letters and Songs Everything God has done was done by the Deity before the beginning of time in the divine present. In the pure and holy Godhead...
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