![]() ![]() ![]() While I was doing it, I sensed, as I mentioned before, the deep profundity of scriptural exposition and, raising myself from illness by the strength I received, I brought this work to a close – though just barely – in ten years. In her first theological text, ('Know the Ways'), Hildegard describes her struggle within: But I, though I saw and heard these things, refused to write for a long time through doubt and bad opinion and the diversity of human words, not with stubbornness but in the exercise of humility, until, laid low by the scourge of God, I fell upon a bed of sickness then, compelled at last by many illnesses, and by the witness of a certain noble maiden of good conduct the nun Richardis von Stade and of that man whom I had secretly sought and found, as mentioned above, I set my hand to the writing. The illustrations recorded in the book of Scivias were visions that Hildegard experienced, causing her great suffering and tribulations. Throughout her life, she continued to have many visions, and in 1141, at the age of 42, Hildegard received a vision she believed to be an instruction from God, to 'write down that which you see and hear.' Still hesitant to record her visions, Hildegard became physically ill. Hildegard was hesitant to share her visions, confiding only to, who in turn told Volmar, Hildegard's tutor and, later, secretary. ![]()
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