Chapter 43OrdV.1.43
Amor Celestis
The Golden Gate of Heaven
The soul declares itself as the golden gate fixed in heaven, through which one passes to be freed from all bitter inner corruption.
I am the golden gate set fast in heaven: whoever passes through me will never taste bitter wantonness in their own mind.
Read the original Latin
Ego aurea porta in colo fixa sum: qui per me transit numquam amaram petulantiam in mente sua gustabit.
Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) companion
Let a different Virtue meet you each morning
Chosen Portion walks you through the whole Ordo Virtutum — and Hildegard's Scivias — as free daily devotionals.
The Ordo was performed scene by scene by Hildegard's nuns, and Chosen Portion restores that rhythm — one scene of the Virtues' drama as each day's devotional.
- The complete 84-scene drama, one short scene per day, in modern readable English
- Each portion pairs the scene with its Scripture echoes — 26 references resolved across the play
- Finish Hildegard, then continue with 70+ other works from Europe's royal devotional archive