An incomplete search for the meaning of 'viriditas'…

O Nobilissima Viriditas… “O most noble greenness, you whose roots are in the sun and who shine in bright serenity in a wheel that no earthly eminence can comprehend.” - Hildegard von Bingen

Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (…) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen. -Terence McKenna

“Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's a constant pressure, pushing toward pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call viriditas, and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see…” -Kim Robinson

“(…) also honour the stability of the world: the orbits of the Sun and the Moon, winds and air, earth and water… We have no other foothold. If we give up this world we shall be destroyed by demons and deprived of the angels' protection”. -Hildegard von Bingen

Viriditas, a word coined by Hildegard von Bingen and more recently used by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, describes the green force of life, expanding into the Universe. The final movement of Shattering Suns is a dance of life: a rhythmic outburst acting as a pendant to the opening, chaotic explosion of a dying star in the first movement. Mixed meters and fast, ascending scales combine to produce a feeling of rushing forward, joyfully, to greet the unknown. http://www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/faculty/taylor/suns/viriditas.html

Stevie Wishart http://www.loganartsmanagement.com/artists/stevie-wishart/discography/stevie-wishart-sinfonye-hildegard-vol-3

  O Life-green finger of God,
  in you God has placed a garden.
  You reflect heaven's eminent radiance
  like a raised pillar.
  You are glorious
  as you perform God's deeds.

  O sublime mountains,
  which can never be made low
  by the discretion of God.
  Yet still you stand at a distance,
  as if in exile,
  But there is no armed power
  which can tear you away.

  You are glorious
  as you perform God's deeds.

  Glory to the One, the Body,
  and to the Holy Spirit.

  Glorious you are,
  as you perform God's deeds.

http://www.healingchants.com/hct.oviriditasdigitidei.html

“There is a power that has been since all eternity and that force and potentiality is green!”

  Oh fire of the Holy Spirit,
  life of the life of every creature,
  holy are you in giving life to forms…

  Oh boldest path,
  penetrating into all places,
  in the heights, on earth,
  and in every abyss,
  you bring and bind all together
  From you clouds flow, air flies,
  Rocks have their humours,
  Rivers spring forth from the waters
  And earth wears her green vigour

http://www.greenflame.org/gf-viriditas/

• The Cosmic Vision of Hildegard of Bingen, Stephanie Roth. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2465/is_1_30/ai_59520592
• Cultivating the cosmic tree (hildegard's illumination) http://www.gartenfische.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/hildegard-2.jpg
• Slide show of illuminations http://www.macalester.edu/~warren/courses/Hildegard/art.html

Viriditas. Venite, adoremus. Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Throughout my whole life, during every moment I have lived, the world has gradually been taking on light and fire for me, until it has come to envelop me in one mass of luminosity, glowing from within. . . . The purple flush of matter fading imperceptibly into the gold of spirit, to be lost […] http://www.gartenfische.com/?cat=39

O nobilissima viriditas / Responsory for Virgins

  Most noble
  evergreen with your roots
  in the sun:
  you shine in the cloudless
  sky of a sphere no earthly
  eminence can grasp,
  enfolded in the clasp
  of ministries divine.

  You blush like the dawn,
  you burn like a flame
  of the sun.

http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/H/HildegardofB/Onobilissima.htm

  Art is that Ithaca
  of green eternity, not wonders.
  Art is endless like the river flowing
  passing yet remaining; it mirrors the same
  inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same
  and yet another, like the river flowing.
  -Borges, The Art of Poetry

Viriditas on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=viriditas&m=text

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What is Viriditas? In the year 1098 in a small town in what is now Southern Germany, a baby girl named Hildegard was born. She was the 10th child in her family, and in that day, the 10th of anything belonged to the church (a “tithe”). So, Hildegard was given to the church and became the apprentice to a nun in a local convent. Aside from being a reknowned visionary, during her life Hildegard drew inspiring art work, composed music, and was an accomplished herbalist. She coined the word “Viriditas” (from the latin for green and truth). To her it was a way to describe the presence of the divine in everything green. This divine knowledge in the plants was why they healed, because they brought that divine into people. She believed that we were all a part of a circle/cycle. The moist, juiciness of the plants showed their health, and if we are all moist and juicy, then we are filled with the presence of Spirit.

So, in honor of Hildegard and the plants, we named our clinic Viriditas. We believe that we all hold with in us the ability to heal, the knowledge of the plants, of the cycles of the seasons, and of life and death. Sometimes, it just takes a little nudge from the plants to help us remember… http://viriditashealing.com/

Essential oils. http://www.veriditasbotanicals.com/

trio viriditas – jazz… http://www.mp3.com/albums/530343/summary.html