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Christian : Catholic 12th Century	About Hildegard of Bingen Timeline (1098 - 1179)
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English version by Barbara Newman Original Language Latin	Laus Trinitati / Antiphon for the Trinity
Commentary by Ivan M. Granger   Recommended Books The Book of the Rewards of Life: Liber Vitae Meritorum, by Hildegard of Bingen / Translated by Bruce W. Hozeski Creation and Christ: The Wisdom of Hildegard of Bingen, Translated by Columbar Hart / Translated by Jane Bishop German Mystical Writings: Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, and others, Edited by Karen J. Campbell Hildegard of Bingen, by Regine Pernoud / Translated by Paul Duggan Hildegard of Bingen, by Nancy Fierro More >>	To the Trinity be praise!      God is music, God is life      that nurtures every creature in its kind. Our God is the song of the angel throng      and the splendor of secret ways      hid from all humankind, But God our life is the life of all.     -- from Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celstium revelationum, by Hildegard of Bingen / Translated by Barbara Newman Amazon.com
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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

This beautiful song of praise by Hildegard von Bingen expresses so much of her mysticism. She sees Life flowing and flowering through all life. And she declares that life to be unquestionably divine! Elsewhere she refers to this so delightfully as God's "greening" of the world.

For Hildegard, there is a divine outpouring or radiance. That expression of God in and through all things is also perceived as music, as harmony.

"God is music, God is life..." God is the rhythm of existence -- and we are part of its thrum!

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