HildegardHotTakes

A bot tweeting quotes from Hildegard of Bingen's writing.

By @tinyredbook

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Abomination!

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They are followed by many other prophets, both minor and important, radiating the light of many marvellous miracles.

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But God watered certain human beings so that humanity would not become a complete mockery

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Then also all the times will flow past and will lack nothing of their fullness.

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finally towards the end of the world it is to endure the narrow constriction of many troubles.

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But because of the shadows of dark living air, that mountain did not appear until the Son of the most High had enlightened the world.

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and a great light towards the east.

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May all the faithful hear them with the open ears of their hearts, and not with the ears that hear outwardly, like animals taking in the sound but not the word.

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because the Father is not without the Son, nor the Son without the Father, nor the Father or the Son without the Holy Spirit, nor the Spirit without them

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This is what the wheel of eternity is like.

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It is flexible, like the bend of the arm, discerning both the divine and the human in God.

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In this way I feel the goodness of God!

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And in the middle of these elements there was a sandy ball of great size which was so surrounded by these elements that it could not move in any direction.

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However, when the winds collided with the elements, the force of their impact set the whole world in motion a little.

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and your ears like Mount Bethel, your nose is like a mountain of myrrh and incense, your mouth the sound of many waters.

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for by that same Word a most pleasing sacred moisture streams like dew from the Father in the Holy Spirit, producing great and plentiful fruit, just as pure dew falling on grass brings it most fittingly to germination.

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Therefore you see ‘an extremely bright light’, which signifies the Father, who is without the stains of illusion, failure or deceit.

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Whoever adds more to his vows than the law requires will receive a double reward; for I will treat his name with honour because he has loved me so much.

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‘I have eagerly desired to come to you at the heavenly nuptials and sit with you, running to you on the pilgrim way like a cloud^ racing through the purest air like a sapphire.’

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@real_aeven13 But nothingness has no particular property from which it might derive its existence

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The four cardinal winds support the firmament below and above the level of the sun.