. Studies in the history and method of science. 7?J5252x^^^^^^^m. Platk VII. NOUS PERVADED BY THE GODHEAD EMBRACINGTHE MACROCOSM WITH THE MICROCOSM OF SAINT HILDEGARD (1098-1180) 21 would enable her to utilize, and which fit in well with her micro-cosmic doctrines. Ideas on the harmony and disharmony of theelements she may have picked up from such works as the Wisdomof Solomon and the Pauline writings, though it is obvious thatIsidore of Seville and the Regimen Sanitatis Salerni were alsodrawn upon by her. Her figure of the Church in the Scivias reminds us irresistiblyof Boethius vision of the

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. Studies in the history and method of science. 7?J5252x^^^^^^^m. Platk VII. NOUS PERVADED BY THE GODHEAD EMBRACINGTHE MACROCOSM WITH THE MICROCOSM OF SAINT HILDEGARD (1098-1180) 21 would enable her to utilize, and which fit in well with her micro-cosmic doctrines. Ideas on the harmony and disharmony of theelements she may have picked up from such works as the Wisdomof Solomon and the Pauline writings, though it is obvious thatIsidore of Seville and the Regimen Sanitatis Salerni were alsodrawn upon by her. Her figure of the Church in the Scivias reminds us irresistiblyof Boethius vision of the gracious feminine form of , the visions of the punishments of Hell which Hildegardrecounts in the Liber Vitae Meritorum ^ bear resemblance to thework of her contemporary Benedictine, the monk Alberic theyomiger of Monte Cassino, to whom Dante also became indebted.^ Hildegard repeatedly assures us that most of her knowledgewas revealed to her in waking visions. Some of these we shallseek to show had a pathological basis, probably of a migrainous

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