Hildegard von Bingen - The Healing Power of her Symbols. Traude Bollig

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      How it all began

      In 1998, on the occasion of the nine-hundredth birthday of Hildegard von Bingen, many documents of her times were exhibited in the cathedral of Mainz. These also included the famous Major Code from the Hessian State Library in Wiesbaden, a manuscript of close to twelve kilogrammes that was written shortly after Hildegard’s death in order to capture the entire treasure of her knowledge. This manuscript also contains the so-called litterae ignotae, symbols that have thus far not been decoded and that appear in the middle of a chapter without any obvious link to the remaining text. The old manuscript lay in a cabinet and was opened on this page. One of the many visitors to the exhibition showed particular interest in these “unknown letters”. As an artist she had an unmistakable instinct for symbols – and these had a very special radiation. She also began to sketch the symbols, one by one. Later she gave a copy of these sketches to Heidemarie, a friend of hers that dealt with alternative healing methods.

      On one afternoon in December 1999 four women got together to exchange experiences and to inform each other of the latest developments in the field of spiritual healing methods: Heidemarie, a healer and Reiki teacher, a sound therapist, a yoga instructor and a kinesiologist. And, indeed, there was something entirely new: Heidemarie had brought a copy of the “secret letters”; twenty-five symbols on a simple white sheet of paper with the only addition:

      “Secret code / litterae ignotae (literally “unknown letters”)

      Major Code Hildegard von Bingen 1180/90

      Wiesbaden, Hessian State Library, Hs 2”

      She had added a meaning to each symbol, which she had intuitively received in meditation. For example, next to the symbol for t the word “kidney”was written. Ingrid, who as a kinesiologist was aware of the connection between muscles, meridians and organs, suggested testing the psoas, a large muscle in the pelvis, in order to verify this interpretation. This is done by exercising light pressure on one leg in an outward and downward direction, while holding the straightened leg up. Heidemarie, who suspected a weakness of her kidneys, spontaneously agreed to act as a test person.

      Indeed, the leg could not withstand the pressure, the muscle was too weak. Then the same test was repeated while Heidemarie was looking at the symbol that was to be verified. Now the muscle could fulfil its function, the leg could be held in the straightened position. It was unbelievable!

      The women verified this result repeatedly in order to be absolutely certain of its correctness. Eventually Heidemarie looked at the symbol for about one minute. In the next test the muscle, and thus also the leg, could withstand the pressure without Heidemarie continuing to look at the symbol. Everyone was very impressed. They foresaw that they had received a great treasure and for Ingrid there were no doubts at all as to the effectiveness of the symbols. She would go out of her way to find out more about the secret behind these symbols.

      And this is how the symbols came to me. Ingrid and I had maintained an intensive and regular exchange of experience for quite some time already. This had always been very fruitful and important because we had both had our own practices with clients for some time. We both had experience in working with symbols. I had also looked into the work of Hildegard and in particular into her knowledge of the healing properties of gemstones, had held talks and had offered seminars on this topic. We had both felt the special power of the mountain Disibodenberg where Hildegard had spent forty-one years of her life. So it was obvious that we had a keen interest in the effect of these symbols. And thus we commenced our journey into the discovery of these symbols in January 2000 and jointly continued this work for two years. During our meeting in January 2000 the symbols of Hildegard von Bingen were our main topic. On the basis of the kinesiological muscle test, our wonderful “tool”, it was possible to verify the effect easily and reliably. The results of our first experiments were so impressive that we both had the desire to continue this work. We decided to meet regularly at shorter intervals and to work intensively on decoding the symbols.