Identifier: studiesinhistory01sing (find matches)
Title: Studies in the history and method of science
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960
Subjects: Medicine Science
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ing cloud. They were not raised erect but spread apartone from the other and the head rose slightly above them . . . andat times they would beat terribly and again would be still. Noword uttered the head, but remained altogether still, yet now andagain beating with its extended wings. From the head extended a series of fortification lines, and thispeculiar form of vision is reproduced on several occasions andvariously interpreted (Plate xxiv, upper section). It is unitedwith similar visions in what we regard as a reconstructed con-ception of exceedingly complex structure. This she claims to seeseparately, and she interprets it as the aedificium of the cityof God (Plate xxv). Such reconstructed visions are clearly of adifferent type and origin to the simple group in which a shininglight or group of lights is encountered and interpreted as a speakingfigure. From THE WIESBADEN CODEX B. fo. 3or fcnitan p<^l. rv. anr.iir^crcnwltinm
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Plate XXV. THE HEAVENLY CITY OF SAINT HILDEGARD (1098-1180) 55 Hildegards visions, perhaps without exception, contain thiselement of a blinding or ghttering Ught, which she interprets ina more or less spiritual manner. We terminate our account withthe passage in which she sums up her experiences of it. From my infancy, she says, up to the present time, I beingnow more than seventy years of age, I have always seen this lightin my spirit and not with external eyes, nor with any thoughts ofmy heart nor with help from the senses. But my outward eyesremain open and the other corporeal senses retam their activity.The light which I see is not located but yet is more brilliant thanthe sun, nor can I examine its height, length, or breadth, and I nameit the cloud of the living light. And as sun, moon, and stars arereflected in water, so the writings, sayings, virtues, and works ofmen shine in it before me. And whatever I thus see in vision thememory thereof remains long with me. Likewise I see,

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