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Despite attempts to safeguard the original Scivias manuscript it disappeared and remains missing without a trace to this day. At the end of the war in 1945, Dresden came under the occupation of Soviet troops. Soon after, the original Scivias manuscript was lost in the chaos of war. The original manuscript, was first kept in Rome, and later, in 1814, arrived in Wiesbaden, where Goethe saw it and wrote: “an old manuscript containing the visions of Saint Hildegard, is extraordinary.” In 1942, during World War II, the Scivias-Codex was transferred for safer keeping to Dresden. Image from Rupertsberg Codex which survived the second World War Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias-Codex survived Hildegard in separate manuscripts, two of which lasted 800 years before being destroyed within the last century. The story of the manuscript is almost as interesting as the book itself. The mainstream view generally accepts the completion of the original Rupertsberg manuscript around 1175, before her death in 1179. There is some disagreement about whether the images were completed during Hildegard’s lifetime or after her death. The specific origin and nature of the thumbnail illustrations remains unknown. The images have become, perhaps, more popular than the actual narrative contained within Scivias. Scivias is renowned for its 35 images, or Illuminations, accompanying the descriptions of Hildegard’s visions as part of the original illuminated Rupertsberg manuscript. Hundreds of years after Scivias, Hildegard’s mandala images would be a reference point for Jung’s process of individuation, described in his Red Book. Hildegard’s descriptive, visionary recitation of her visions framed a powerful and compelling perspective of existence and divinity that impressed many who would discover her work, including Carl Jung, who drew much from Scivias to inform his thinking.
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Through Scivias, Hildegard of Bingen described a mystic philosophy full of archetypal images and a hero’s journey, wherein the soul predates the body and persists beyond experience on earth. The book deals with the interconnectivity of man in the universe the concept that man represents a microcosm of the cosmic macrocosm, in other words, the belief that the universe exists simultaneously within each of us, while also encompassing everything else externally. Scivias, (“Know the Ways”) describes 26 of Hildegard’s most vivid visions. Scivias, an illustrated tome, was Hildegard of Bingen’s first, and perhaps the most famous of her writings.