Hildegard of Bingen Prophecies

[Maia Makalii]

I just thought this was interesting, Hildegard  of Bingen was recently declared a Saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church. She had some very interesting apocolyptic prophecies. It's just interesting that this happened just last year.

http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/books.php?id=5524

"What accounts for the extraordinary surge of interest in her life and work? Fox lays out eight reasons: (1) Her experience as a woman and her personal struggle for liberation; (2) her marrying of science, art, and religion; (3) her psychology of microcosm/macrocosm; (4) her potential for global religious ecumenism based on her deep mysticism; (5) her prophetic commitment to justice; (6) her deep ecological sense; (7) her commitment to holistic education and theological methodology; and (8) her symbolic consciousness."

Here are some of those prophecies:

http://www.summorumpontificum.net/2011/12/pope-to-name-hildegard-of...

Declaration of Hildegard as a "Doctor" and what it means:

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/10/st-hildegard-of-bing...

"The Lord granted her a prophetic spirit and fervent capacity to discern the signs of the times,”

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-benedict-creates-two-ne...

The best-known writing of Hildegard of Bingen is a trilogy (1141–52) including Scivias, Liber Vitae Meritorum, (Book of the Life of Merits), and Liber Divinorum Operum (Book of the Divine Works). These include records of her visions -- many are apocalyptic -- and her explanations of scripture and salvation history. She also wrote plays, poetry, and music, and many of her hymns and song cycles are recorded today. She even wrote on medicine and nature -- and it's important to note that for Hildegard of Bingen, as for many in medieval times, theology, medicine, music, and similar topics were unitary, not separate spheres of knowledge.

During all these years Hildegard confided of her visions only to Jutta and another monk, named Volmar, who was to become her lifelong secretary. However, in 1141, Hildegard had a vision that changed the course of her life. A vision of god gave her instant understanding of the meaning of the religious texts, and commanded her to write down everything she would observe in her visions.

And it came to pass ... when I was 42 years and 7 months old, that the heavens were opened and a blinding light of exceptional brilliance flowed through my entire brain. And so it kindled my whole heart and breast like a flame, not burning but warming... and suddenly I understood of the meaning of expositions of the books...

Yet Hildegard was also overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy and hesitated to act.

But although I heard and saw these things, because of doubt and low opinion of myself and because of diverse sayings of men, I refused for a long time a call to write, not out of stubbornness but out of humility, until weighed down by a scourge of god, I fell onto a bed of sickness.

the "illuminations" of Hildegard:

http://www.macalester.edu/~warren/courses/Hildegard/art.html

[Maia Makalii]

"Before the Comet comes, many nations, the good excepted, will be scoured with want and famine. The great nation in the ocean that is inhabited by people of different tribes and descent by an earthquake, storm and tidal waves will be devastated. It will be divided, and in great part submerged. That nation will also have many misfortunes at sea, and lose its colonies in the east through a Tiger and a Lion.



The Comet by its tremendous pressure, will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries, causing much want and many plagues. [After the] great Comet, the great nation will be devastated by earthquakes, storms, and great waves of water, causing much want and plagues. The ocean will also flood many other countries, so that all coastal cities will live in fear, with many destroyed. All sea coast cities will be fearful and many of them will be destroyed by tidal waves, and most living creatures will be killed and even those who escape will die from a horrible disease."

[Maia Makalii]

"The time is coming when princes and peoples will reject the authority of the Pope. Some countries will prefer their own Church rulers to the Pope. The German Empire will be divided. Church property will be secularised. Priests will be persecuted. After the birth of Antichrist heretics will preach their false doctrines undisturbed, resulting in Christians having doubts about their holy Catholic faith."