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Life

1098 CE – 1179 CE

MedievalMystic

Mystic, composer, herbalist, abbess. She saw visions of living light and wrote them down in books that no man dared suppress.

Meister Eckhart

c. 1260 CE – c. 1328 CE

MysticMedieval

The Dominican mystic who preached that the ground of the soul and the ground of God are one, and that the deepest prayer is to want nothing.

Connection

Hildegard of Bingen the Rhineland mystical line Meister Eckhart — Hildegard stands at the head of the Rhineland tradition Eckhart would later belong to, a German mysticism willing to describe God through images of greenness, fire and flowing life.

Shared Places

Cologne

Ideas

Nature Meditation & Yoga

Grace & Free Will Being

Words

“The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life.”
— Hildegard of Bingen

“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
— Meister Eckhart

Key Moments

1098 CE

Born

1141 CE

Visions and Writing at Rupertsberg

c. 1150 CE

Composes Music and Natural Philosophy

1179 CE

Death at Rupertsberg

c. 1260 CE

Born in Thuringia

c. 1310 CE

German Sermons

c. 1320 CE

Detachment and the Godhead

1326 CE

Tried for Heresy

Works

Scivias

The German Sermons