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1pads e n “Revelations of dE love Julian, of Norwich, b. This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher. Pu Revelations of divine love —-—--""T —- | | i XVI. REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE SHEWED TO MOTHER JULIANA | OF NORWICH 1373 | | - The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved 2 x | m 3 = . ! i | | | — d. * . fa k S Š ka | | oe eu. y Ns E hoe E M mam a a " iva: «4. TT IU i we : e PE Pys p o 1 of X ji . xo 3 Se PRENSA SE. be — | o d Ale. 46 2T g- A < a ni qim — — eat ds I Se l5íi&Te s iU hee VL ewe Te Ree SS "E | | A ' I Ai » E s Mae ! > = renati Dy Mio
2a m "us 13 ibt PREFACE ‘Wat! Wouldst thou wit thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. Wherefore shewed He it thee? For Love. Hold thee therein, and thou shalt wit it more in that same. But thou shalt never wit therein other without end." This is the key to the true interpretation and criticism not only of Mother Juliana's Revelations, but also of the Christian revelation and of every religion so far as it reaches after the fulness of Christ. Nay, it is the key to the riddle of Nature and to the riddle of human life—all alike in their several ways are “Revelations of Divine Love"— however hard at times it may be for Faith, with tear-dimmed eyes and trembling fingers, to unravel the knot. “Wit it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. Wherefore shewed He it thee? For Love." Beneath the life of those senses which reveal to us that world of appearances, which the unreflecting so easily confound with the reality v PREFACE
3which it only symbolises; beneath the life of the understanding, whose forms and frames (contrasting in their permanence and universality with the unsteadiness and uncertainty of that chaos of fleeting phenomena which they but classify and set in order) have seemed to some to merit the name of Keality ; beneath even the life of the higher, though selfcentred and self-regarding emotions and sentiments, esthetic or spiritual; deep down at the very basis of the soul, is to be sought the only life that in an absolute and independent sense deserves the name of “real,” because by 1t alone are we brought into conscious relation with other personalities, and made aware of our own, Whatever else we call real 1s so, but in some secondary and derived sense. Only in so far as it resembles a person can we think of it at all, and only in so far as it affects a person, ourself or another, can we desire it or care about it in any way. It is precisely by love and its dependent affections that we are brought into conscious and active relation with the whole world of personalities outside our own, so as to make therewith in some sort one many-membered spiritual organism. It is love which at once saves and yet overcomes that separateness and individual distinction which is of the very essence of personality, and thereby welds the several grains of corn into one living vi
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1pads e n “Revelations of dE love Julian, of Norwich, b. This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher. Pu Revelations of divine love —-—--""T —- | | i XVI. REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE SHEWED TO MOTHER JULIANA | OF NORWICH 1373 | | - The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved 2 x | m 3 = . ! i | | | — d. * . fa k S Š ka | | oe eu. y Ns E hoe E M mam a a " iva: «4. TT IU i we : e PE Pys p o 1 of X ji . xo 3 Se PRENSA SE. be — | o d Ale. 46 2T g- A < a ni qim — — eat ds I Se l5íi&Te s iU hee VL ewe Te Ree SS "E | | A ' I Ai » E s Mae ! > = renati Dy Mio
2a m "us 13 ibt PREFACE ‘Wat! Wouldst thou wit thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. Wherefore shewed He it thee? For Love. Hold thee therein, and thou shalt wit it more in that same. But thou shalt never wit therein other without end." This is the key to the true interpretation and criticism not only of Mother Juliana's Revelations, but also of the Christian revelation and of every religion so far as it reaches after the fulness of Christ. Nay, it is the key to the riddle of Nature and to the riddle of human life—all alike in their several ways are “Revelations of Divine Love"— however hard at times it may be for Faith, with tear-dimmed eyes and trembling fingers, to unravel the knot. “Wit it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. Wherefore shewed He it thee? For Love." Beneath the life of those senses which reveal to us that world of appearances, which the unreflecting so easily confound with the reality v PREFACE
3which it only symbolises; beneath the life of the understanding, whose forms and frames (contrasting in their permanence and universality with the unsteadiness and uncertainty of that chaos of fleeting phenomena which they but classify and set in order) have seemed to some to merit the name of Keality ; beneath even the life of the higher, though selfcentred and self-regarding emotions and sentiments, esthetic or spiritual; deep down at the very basis of the soul, is to be sought the only life that in an absolute and independent sense deserves the name of “real,” because by 1t alone are we brought into conscious relation with other personalities, and made aware of our own, Whatever else we call real 1s so, but in some secondary and derived sense. Only in so far as it resembles a person can we think of it at all, and only in so far as it affects a person, ourself or another, can we desire it or care about it in any way. It is precisely by love and its dependent affections that we are brought into conscious and active relation with the whole world of personalities outside our own, so as to make therewith in some sort one many-membered spiritual organism. It is love which at once saves and yet overcomes that separateness and individual distinction which is of the very essence of personality, and thereby welds the several grains of corn into one living vi
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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