Table of Contents

I. HILDEGARD: HER TIMES AND HER ILLUMINATIONS

II. HILDEGARD'S GIFTS FOR OUR TIMES

III. HILDEGARD'S ILLUMINATIONS
with Text by Hildegard of Bingen and Commentary by Matthew Fox

1. The Man in Sapphire Blue: A Study in Compassion
2. Hildegard's Awakening: A Self-Portrait
3. Viriditas: Greening Power
4. Egg of the Universe
5. The Cosmic Wheel
6. The Human as Microcosm of the Macrocosm
7. Cultivating the Cosmic Tree
8. The Creator's Glory, Creation's Glory
9. Original Blessing: The Golden Tent
10. Adam's Fall
11. Recycling Lucifer's Fall into Humanity's Glory
12. Sin--Drying Up
13. The Six Days of Creation Renewed
14. Sophia: Mother Wisdom, Mother Church
15. All Beings Celebrate Creation
16. Emptying: The True Spirit of Poverty
17. Strengthening the Soul for the Journey
18. Power, Principalities and the Antichrist
19. The Crucifixion and The Mass: Cosmic Events
20. The Mystical Body Taming the Devil
21. Five Virtues Building a Heavenly City in the House of Wisdom
22. The Red Head of God Zealous for Erotic Justice
23. Redemption: Cosmic Healing, Cosmic Regeneration.
24. New Heaven, New Earth
25. The Communion of Saints in Cosmic Symphony

A Bibliographical Note for English-Speaking Readers

Acknowledgements

Index

About the Author

Matthew Fox is a well-known lecturer and scholar and is president and founder of the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, California. He is the author of 24 books, including Original Blessing, Meditations with Meister Eckhart, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, and One River, Many Wells. He lives in Oakland, California.

Reviews

"If one person deserves credit for the great Hildegard renaissance in our time, it is Matthew Fox. Here in the long-lost legacy of Hildegard of Bingen is a mystical genius who could help to illumine the human soul spiritually, ecologically, politically--in every dimension of life."
*Mary Ford-Grabowsky, author of Sacred Voices*

"She [Hildegard] castigated a pope for his timidity and an emperor for moral blindness. She taught scholars and preached to clergy and laity as no woman before her had ever done. . . . She claimed that now woman rather than man--obviously Hildegard herself--was to do God's work. It is difficult not to see in her visionary experience and activism, as well as her claim for the mission of woman in a male-dominated age, a gesture of protest, the reaction of an intelligent and energetic woman who chafed under the restraints imposed on women by the culture in which she lived."
*Bernard W. Scholz, The American Benedictine Review*

"We find relatively few Christian guides in the past to enlighten or to inspire us to a more functional relationship between the human and the natural worlds. . . . Hildegard might be considered a model with her sense of the earth as region of delight. . . . She has reached far into the emotionally exciting aspects of nature in a unique mode of Christian communion. She sees the creation maker in the ancient manner of the fertility cults, a view she expresses in her statement that creation and creator are related as woman and man. Only thus is the earth fruitful. . . . Because of this 'erotic' bond the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect."
*Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work and The Dream of the Earth*