Table of Contents
Foreword to the English Edition 13
Stage 1 From Idar-Oberstein to Herrstein 15
Meditation & Information
Tableau 1 The Seeress 18
Tableau 2 Stones 22
Tableau 3 God Enthroned 24
Tableau 4 The County of Sponheim 28
Text of the Day
First Station in Hildegard's Life: Childhood and Visionary Gift 30
Stage 2 From Herrstein to Kirn 35
Meditation & Information
Tableau 5 Creation and the Fall 40
Tableau 6 Hildegard's Origin 44
Tableau 7 Trees 46
Tableau 8 The Cosmos 50
Tableau 9 Birds 56
Tableau 10 Beer 58
Text of the Day
Hildegard's Visionary Images 61
Stage 3 From Kirn to Monzingen 67
Meditation & Information
Tableau 11 Hildegard as an Early "Protestant" 70
Tableau 12 Soul and Body 72
Tableau 13 Metais 77
Tableau 14 Reptiles 78
Tableau 15 Hildegard's Music 79
Tableau 16 Hildegard's Correspondence 81
Tableau 17 Wine 83
Text of the Day
Viriditas-Green Power of Life 85
Stage 4 From Monzingen to the Disibodenberg 91
Meditation & Information
Tableau 18 Plants 97
Tableau 19 Medical Herbs 99
Tableau 20 Animals 102
Tableau 21 The Synagogue 104
Tableau 22 Causae et Curae 108
Tableau 23 Physica 110
Tableau 24 The Choirs of the Angels 112
Tableau 25 The Redeemer 116
Text of the Day
Second Station in Hildegard's Life: Entrance to St. Disibod Monastery 120
Stage 5 From Disibodenberg to Schloßböckelheim 125
Meditation & Information
Tableau 26 Hildegard's Time at the Disibodenberg 134
Tableau 27 The Trinity 136
Tableau 28 Elements 140
Tableau 29 Baptism 142
Tableau 30 Confirmation 146
Tableau 31 Celtic Homeland 150
Tableau 32 Ecclesia and Virginitas 152
Tableau 33 Christ and His Church 156
Tableau 34 Fish 160
Tableau 35 Böckelheim Castle 162
Tableau 36 The Devil 164
Text of the Day
Third Station in Hildegard's Life: Almost Forty Years at the Disibodenberg 168
Stage 6 From Schloßböckelheim to Braunweiler 173
Meditation & Information
Tableau 37 God, Lucifer, and Humanity 178
Tableau 38 The Tithe 181
Tableau 39 The Edifice of Salvation 182
Tableau 40 Jutta of Sponheim 186
Tableau 41 The Tower of Anticipation 188
Tableau 42 The Pillar of the Word of God 192
Tableau 43 Sponheim Minster 195
Text of the Day
Fourth Station in Hildegard's Life: The "Revelation" of Liber Scivias 196
Stage 7 From Braunweiler to Stromberg 203
Meditation & Information
Tableau 44 The Zeal of God 210
Tableau 45 Hildegard's Marian Songs 214
Tableau 46 The Stone Wall of the Old Law 216
Tableau 47 The Pillar of the Trinity 220
Tableau 48 Pilgrimage 223
Tableau 49 The Pillar of the Savior's Humanity 224
Tableau 50 The Tower of the Church 228
Tableau 51 The Son of Man 232
Tableau 52 Liber Vitae Meritorum 240
Stage 8 From Stromberg to Bingerbrück 243
Meditation & Information
Tableau 53 The Last Days and the Fall of the Antichrist 248
Tableau 54 The Last Judgment 252
Tableau 55 Symphony of Praise 256
Text of the Day
Fifth Station in Hildegard's Life: The Foundation of the Rupertsberg Women's Monastery 264
Stage 9 The Bingen Hildegard Way 269
Meditation & Information
Tableau 56 Liber Divinorum Operum 276
Tableau 57 The Rupertsberg Women's Monastery 278
Tableau 58 Bingen, the Hildegard-Town 282
Tableau 59 After Hildegard's Death 284
Text of the Day
Sixth Station in Hildegard's Life: The Bingen Period 286
Stage 10 The Rüdesheim Hildegard Way 295
Text of the Day
Saint Hildegard's Abbey in Changing Times 301
Poems & Songs
O splendissima gemma 21
O quam mirabilis 39
O virtus Sapientiae 49
Hildegard's Visions 60
O nobilissima viriditns 84
Longing for St. Hildegard. of Bingen and Christus Medicus 96
O vos Angeli 115
In Search of Hildegard of Bingen 130
Laus Trinitati 139
O orzchis Ecclesia 145
De Spiritu Sancto-O Fire of the Spirit 149
O virgo Ecclesia 159
King Henry's Christmas 167
O magne Pater 185
This Is What I Wish For 191
O quam pretiosa 209
Reflection 219
O viridissima virga 227
Sonne der Gerechtigkeit-Sun of Justice 231
Praying for Divine Virtues 236
The Great Woman Mystic 247
Towards the End of Times 251
De Angelis 259
Epilogue 260
Co-operation 262
O Jerusalem-Sequence for Saint Rupert 281
St. Hildegard of Bingen's Theology 299
Talking with Hildegard 309
Notes 313
Bibliography 319
