For nearly nine hundred years, readers have been moved by the visions of Hildegard of Bingen, the twelfth-century Benedictine abbess who saw the living light of God and set down what it revealed to her. Scivias — 'Know the Ways' — is her great visionary work, a sweeping account of creation, fall, redemption, and the life to come, told in images of breathtaking originality: a cosmic egg, a ladder of virtues, a city of sapphire light. This modern-English edition renders Hildegard's medieval Latin into clear, inviting prose that preserves the power and strangeness of her visions while making them newly accessible to today's readers. Faithful to the meaning and spirit of the original, it opens a doorway into one of the most remarkable spiritual imaginations in Christian history. Part of The Sacred Wisdom Library.