Hildegard Von Bingen's Mystical Visions

by Von Bingen, Hildegard

• ISBN13: 9781879181298
• ISBN10: 1879181290
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-11-01
• Publisher: Bear & Co

Summary

Twelfth-century Rhineland mystic Hildegard von Bingen records her exquisite encounter with divinity, producing a magnificent fusion of divine inspiration and human intellect. Hildegard von Bingen's Mystical Visions is perhaps the most complete and powerful documentation of mystical consciousness in recorded history. Now after 800 years, these visions are again available for those seeking to reawaken mystical consciousness.

Author Biography

Translator Bruce Hozseki is a professor of English at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He is the past president of the International Hildegard von Bingen Society, which he founded in 1984. He remains an active speaker and researcher on Hildegard, both in the United States and Europe.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	vii
Foreword: Scivias, An Annotated Outline	ix
Adelgundis Fuhrkotter
Foreword: Hildegard of Bingen's Struggle for Wisdom	xix
Matthew Fox
Preface: Hildegard of Bingen's Wealth of Scholarship	xxv
Acknowledgments	xxxiii
Introduction	1	(6)
The First Part
First Vision	7	(6)
Second Vision	13	(14)
Third Vision	27	(12)
Fourth Vision	39	(20)
Fifth Vision	59	(8)
Sixth Vision	67	(10)
The Second Part
First Vision	77	(10)
Second Vision	87	(10)
Third Vision	97	(4)
Fourth Vision	101	(2)
Fifth Vision	103	(24)
Sixth Vision	127	(34)
Seventh Vision	161	(16)
The Third Part
First Vision	177	(12)
Second Vision	189	(14)
Third Vision	203	(4)
Fourth Vision	207	(18)
Fifth Vision	225	(16)
Sixth Vision	241	(22)
Seventh Vision	263	(14)
Eighth Vision	277	(28)
Ninth Vision	305	(16)
Tenth Vision	321	(24)
Eleventh Vision	345	(20)
Twelfth Vision	365	(10)
Thirteenth Vision	375	(22)
Appendix	397