"In your light we see Light"

      "And sometimes, though not often, I see another light in that [shadow of the living] light, and this I have called 'the Living Light.'  But I am even less able to explain how I see this light than I am the other one.  Suffice it to say that when I do see it, all my sorrow and pain vanish from my memory and I become more like a young girl than an old women [(atque interim dum illam intueor, omnis mihi tristitia ommsque dolor de memoria aufertur, ita ut tunc mores simplices puelle, et non uetule mulieris habeam)]."

     St. Hildegard of Bingen, Letter 103r to the monk [St.] Guilbert of Gembloux (1175), Letters of Hildegard of Bingen, trans. Joseph L. Baird &  Radd K. Ehrman, vol. 2 (New York:  Oxford University Press, 1998), 23 (21-25).  Latin as supplied by Jörg Ulrich, "Vision bei Hildegard von Bingen:  Beobachtungen zur Vita Gottfrieds und Theoderichs und zu den Visionsschriften Hildegards," Kerygma und Dogma 47 (2001):  15n3 (14-29).