"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)
(Scivias, III, 4.15, trans. Mother Hart, O.S.B. and Jane Bishop)
(Painting of the Divine Sophia by Pamela Matthews, all rights reserved.)
