metonomia

YOU GUYS. A couple weeks back, lady_songsmith showed me Hildegard von Bingen and her meditations and her 12th century new age mysticism bamf-ness. And today in history, we talked about Hildegard! Some background, and then we looked at her migraine-vision-induced illustrations. YOU GUYS. There's one called All Beings Celebrate Creation:

Those are the nine orders of angels chillin' there around creation (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels), and guess what Hildegard says they do?

They sing justice into the world.

Now, obviously Castiel is a regular angel, right? That's my vote - common soldier, lowest order, I think that makes sense. But anyway, that's not the important point. In light of 4.16, it is obvious what is going on here. Cas and Anna and the other loyal and good and truth-seeking angels are singing justice into the world. Uriel and his pals, and maybe also the demons, are halting the song, singing discordant notes, trying to sing injustice into the world rather than justice.

*tear* Thank you, Hildegard, for being so fabulous and for perpetuating my fannish glee. May your afterlife be filled with many Castiels.