I’m not the first or only one to have noticed or drawn some of these same conclusions. Hildegard then gets to work interpreting these strange events within the well known model of her day as….well, she goes to hell. You have a personal mission to help save mankind.
What follows is a discourse I can only conjecture is a dialogue within the parameters of a classic alien abduction case: 1. The same port holes in UFOs, with their whitish-to grayish- to pale-skinned occupants starring out, have been witnessed in innumerable close encounters of the third kind.
The most revealing description of the true nature of this experience comes from her remarkable observation that, in this same mountain there seemed to be, “ a number of little windows in which men’s heads appeared, some pale and some white”. She then posits that it must be clothed in “a pale tunic” and “white shoes”, perhaps because she had to make sense of a naked pale being she had never seen the likes of before.
Hildegard is, as most abductees recall, mesmerized by the occupants’ eyes, “a figure full of eyes everywhere, because of those eyes, I was not able to distinguish any human form.” She then goes on to explain that the creature must have been a boy, perhaps due to its small stature. Only artists from the middle ages, of course, imbibed it as an angel’s wing. She even mentions something quite remarkable considering that this, purportedly, is a mountain, “…a wing of marvelous width and length” coming off of the mountain, echoing that of Betty and Barney Hill’s classic abduction case where they reported seeing a UFO with a wing. She is blinded by the intense light that this “iron mountain” puts off, “such great radiance that it stunned my vision”. Here, Hildegard describes a huge iron colored mountain, paralleling the silvery-black metal that most modern first-hand accounts of UFOs contain. Within this context, Hildegard tries to convey the complexity of her experience using clearly identifiable and discernable descriptors, especially in The Iron-Colored Mountain and the Radiant One: Scivias.
Regarding her specific cultural milieu, it is not surprising that an irrational encounter would be relegated to the interpretive framework of “mystical experience”. Having read Passport to Magonia, it is easy to ascertain the description of a very large UFO and its occupants from Hildegard’s account. It is not surprising to find such reports in the annals of mystical literature, because after all, if we still do not know what UFOs are, then certainly the ancients would perceive them as gods, signs from god, or interpret them through the lens of a spiritual or religious experience. 1146) describes what, to me at least, sound exactly like a close encounter with a UFO and its occupants. Hildegard of Bingen in “Know the Ways of the Lord” (ca. In just one, out of literally thousands of ancient written descriptions of the same phenomenon, the medieval religious ecstatic, Hildegard of Bingen: It’s definitely down the “spiritual” shoot, as the phenomenon has informed almost all major world religions and tribal shamanic journeys.
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