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Article: Modern Esoteric Spirituality: World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- February 5, 1993
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"Listen," wrote Hildegard of Bingen, "there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing banners of the king with great honor. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I...." And thus did Hildegard, 12th-century mystic, poet, naturalist, composer and visionary describe herself and the essence of esoteric spirituality.
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