CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/14/2019

In Hildegard von Bingen's visionary 'Scivias,' a true cosmic symphony

Featured image, created circa 1152 along with 34 other images in the sequence, is from visionary German abbess, composer, writer, artist and mystic Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias, illustrating 26 compelling visions of the journey of humanity via Eve's womb. "To preserve the memory of this experience and make it habitual and habitable," musician and scholar Sara Salvadori writes, "Hildegard transcribed for us Heaven's song, making this symphony resonate with us so that we may embrace on Earth the power of the original seed, to then—following the breath of the song—bring it upward until it transforms into water, air, fire, pure light, in the fullness of life in a true cosmic symphony."