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Bingen, Hildegard of - And their sound was like the voice of a multitude
Identifier
005817
Type of Spiritual Experience
Inter composer communication
Hallucination
Background
There are two possibilities here:
- that through a bridge she was being able to hear what another person was experiencing - thus composer to composer communication and this is not celestial music but terrestrial music
- the other option was that she was hearing songlines
A description of the experience
St Hildegard of Bingen [written 1143-1150] – Scivias
Next I saw the most lucid air, in which I heard .. in a marvellous way many kinds of musicians praising the joys of the heavenly citizens ...And their sound was like the voice of a multitude, making music in harmony