Attribuita a Hildegard of Bingen
«Everything that is in the heavens, on earth and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness.»
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Non si trova nell'opera di Hildegard of Bingen
A modern paraphrase circulating in anthologies of ecological spirituality, with no literal counterpart in the Latin corpus; it sums up ideas of the Liber divinorum operum but is not a quotation.
Fonte: Hildegardis Bingensis. Liber divinorum operum. Ed. Albert Derolez y Peter Dronke. CCCM 92. Turnhout: Brepols, 1996. Trad. inglesa: Nathaniel M. Campbell, The Book of Divine Works. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
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Parole verificate di Hildegard of Bingen
«It happened in the year 1141 of the incarnation of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, when I was forty-two years and seven months old, that a fiery light of the greatest brilliance, coming from the open heaven, poured through my whole brain.»
Scivias, Protestificatio (declaración preliminar)
«O noblest greenness, you who are rooted in the sun and who shine in bright serenity in the wheel that no earthly excellence comprehends.»
Symphonia, responsorio «O nobilissima viriditas» (para las vírgenes)
«Charity abounds in all things, from the depths most excellent above the stars, and most loving towards all, for she gave the highest King the kiss of peace.»
Symphonia, antífona «Caritas abundat in omnia»