Hildegard: A Play

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john gunn, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 88 pages
Play set in the 12th Century about the mystical and controversial nun Hildegard of Bingen. Deals with her life from 1147 when she moved to Rupertsberg on the Rhine, to 1178 when she and her community were excommunicated. Includes bibliography. First produced in Brisbane in May 1999. Author's other publications include 'Water Hazard' and 'The Wild Abyss'.
 

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Page 81 - Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
Page viii - A genius is a person who, seeing farther and probing deeper than other people, has a different set of ethical valuations from theirs, and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her specific talents.
Page 76 - ... (Fox, 1985, p. 27) she had refused to write. But once she followed her inner voice, her suffering ended and she experienced a profound surge of creativity and spiritual growth. "Beaten down by many kinds of illnesses," she says, "I put my hand to writing. Once I did this, a deep and profound exposition of books came over me. I received the strength to rise up from my sick bed, and under that power I continued to carry out the work to the end, using all of ten years to do it
Page 80 - Then the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and the one who created me assigned a place for my tent. And he said, "Make your dwelling in Jacob, and in Israel receive your inheritance." From eternity, in the beginning, he created me, and for eternity I shall not cease to exist. In the holy tabernacle I ministered before him, and so I was established in Zion. In the beloved city likewise he gave me a resting place, and in Jerusalem was my dominion. So I took root in an honoured people, in...
Page 61 - The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the Musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness!
Page 81 - ... see this city? Here God lives among men. He will make his home among them; they shall be his people, and he will be their God; his name is God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness. The world of the past has gone." Then the One sitting on the throne spoke: "Now I am making the whole of creation new,
Page 85 - Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.
Page 81 - For look, I am going to create new heavens and a new earth, And the past will not be remembered And will come no more to mind.
Page 81 - Then let all who are thirsty come: all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free.
Page 57 - Bacon (121 4-94) assumed that, by removing impurities, this materia prima could be obtained. Although Bacon's ideas were in many ways ahead of his time, he firmly believed in the philosopher's stone, which could turn base metals into gold, and in an elixir of life which would give eternal youth. Modern science has, of course, shown in its researches into radioactivity, the possibility of transmutation of certain elements, but this phenomenon has little bearing on either the methods of the alchemist...

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