Know the Ways

She Heard the Voice of the Living Light — and Changed the World Forever In an age when women were expected to remain silent, Hildegard of Bingen sang. She composed symphonies, wrote theological masterworks, corresponded with popes and emperors, prescribed herbal remedies that anticipate modern medicine, and received visions so luminous that the Church named her a Doctor — one of only four women in history to hold that title. She was abbess, prophetess, composer, healer, and mystic, all at once, all on fire. Know the Ways is the devotional biography Hildegard deserves. Drawing on her own writings — Scivias , Physica , Causae et Curae , the breathtaking Symphonia — this book traces the full sweep of her extraordinary life from her earliest childhood visions of the Living Light to her final years at Eibingen, where she continued to preach, heal, and create well into her eighties. Page after page, you will discover how every sermon, every sacred melody, and every healing remedy flowed from one unbroken act of obedience to God. Inside Know the Ways, you will discover: The woman behind the legend — her formation as a Benedictine oblate, her decades under Jutta of Sponheim, and the dramatic moment God commanded her to write what you see and hear Her visions explained — what Hildegard herself called the "reflection of the Living Light," how it shaped her theology of creation, and why her mystical insight remains spiritually nourishing today Her sacred music — how her compositions in the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum stand as the largest surviving body of medieval chant by a single composer, and what makes them unlike anything else in Christian sacred music Her healing arts — the natural philosophy and spiritual vision behind her herbal remedies, her understanding of

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