To Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom

 

"O Wisdom!

You circled, circling,

encompassing all things

in one path possessed of life.

 

Three wings you have -

one of them soars on high,

the second exudes from the earth,

and the third flutters everywhere.

 

Praise to you, as befits you,

O Sapientia!"

 

By the Sibyl of the Rhine, Hildegard of Bingen

(Symphonia Armoniae Celestium Revelationum)

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Vision of the Divine Feminine

 

"She is so bright and glorious that you cannot look at her face or her garments for the splendor with which she shines. For she is terrible with the terror of the avenging lightening, and gentle with the goodness of the bright sun; and both her terror and her gentleness are incomprehensible to humans . . . But she is with everyone and in everyone, and so beautiful is her secret that no person can know the sweetness with which she sustains people, and spares them in inscrutable mercy."

 

Vision of the Divine Feminine by Hildegard von Bingen. 
(Scivias, III, 4.15, trans. Mother Hart, O.S.B. and Jane Bishop)

 

 

(Painting of the Divine Sophia by Pamela Matthews, all rights reserved.)

 

Praise to Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom

 

O Wisdom!
You circled, circling,
encompassing all things
in one path possessed of life.

 

Three wings you have -
one of them soars on high,
the second exudes from the earth,
and the third flutters everywhere

 

Praise to you, as befits you,
O Sapientia!

 

Written by the Sibyl of the Rhine, Hildegard of Bingen
(Symphonia Armoniae Celestium Revelationum)

Praise-song

“What greater praise can I give you than to call you green?

Green, rooted in light, shining like the sun

that pours riches on the wheeling earth;

incomprehensible green, divinely mysterious green,

comforting arms of divine green

protecting us in their powerful circle.

And yet, you are more than even the noblest green,

for you glow red as breaking dawn,

you shine white as the incandescent sun.

Splendid One,

none of our physical senses can explain

or comprehend you.”

Hildegarde of Bingen, "Item de Virginibus"

September 17th is the feast day of Hildegard of Bingen, also known as the "Sybil of the Rhine."
(Photo by M. Thyssen.)

Earth Mother

The earth is at the same time mother.
She is mother of all that is natural,
mother of all that is human.
She is the mother of all,
for contained in her are the seeds of all.
The earth of humankind contains
all moistness,
all verdancy,
all germinating power.

Hildegard of Bingen
(translation by Gabriele Uhlein)

"Earth Mother," painting by Edward Burne-Jones, 1882.