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Unlike other books containing one subjectmatter, this book guidelines to illumination contains many practical hints useful to seekers in the spiritual path. She had numerous prophetic and mystical visions during her life and is said to have been a miracle worker. Skillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, sharratts redemptive novel, illuminations, brings to life one of the most. Sharratt daughters of the witching hill offers up an. Hildegard of bingen 10981179, benedictine abbess and polymath, composed an entire corpus of sacred music and wrote nine books on subjects as diverse as theology, natural science, medicine, and human sexualitya prodigious intellectual outpouring that put many of her male contemporaries to shame. Illuminations download pdfepub ebook gets free book. Sometimes, a book comes along that i never would have picked up except for a book club. Oct 15, 20 mary sharratt has undertaken this with sensitivity and grace.
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