Ground of the Soul--a silent depth where divinity and the self are one. Hildegard articulated her visionary theology through music and illuminations, describing the divine as "Living Light" and the world as shot through with divine vitality.

Another voice was that of the Book of the 24 Philosophers, a 12th-century anonymous text offering cryptic, metaphysical definitions of divinity such as "God is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere