"That a Christian soule doth freely impart its Love and goodwill unto others, as a pleasant flower its virtue and smell: That being we are Plants of God, we ought not to be discouraged by any outward calamity that might befall us, but presse forward...

“When the Holy One, blessed be He, was about to make the world,  all the letters of the Alphabet were still embryonic,  and for two thousand years the Holy One, blessed be He, had contemplated them and toyed with them.  When He came to create the world,...

Liber Scivias Hildegard of Bingen Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2013 ND3385 H55 S279 2013 “The Earth is at the same time mother, She is the mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the...

“…Letters, the Invention of which was a thing of so great Art and exquisiteness, that…doth from hence inferr the divinity and spirituality of the humane soul, and that it must needs be of a farr more excellent and abstracted Essence that mere Matter or Body…”...

“This is the art of arts, the science of sciences. The valuable treasures of wisdom and knowledge, desired by all men, come out of the deep shadow of hiding, enriching and illuminating a world in the hands of evil. The unlimited power of books…now spreads...