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)