Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

THE EIGHTH CHAPTER, The second is, the maiden that is his dear worthy mother. The third is, the blessedful God-head that ever was, and shall be all mighty, all Wisdom, and all Love. The fourth is, all thing that he hath made: for well I wote that heaven and earth, and all that is made, is great, large, fair and good : but the cause why it sheweth so litle to my sight, was, for I saw it in the presence of him that is the Maker; for a soul that seeth the Maker of all thing, all that is made seemeth full litle. The fifth is, that he [hath] made all thing that is made for love, and by the same love it is kept, and shall be without end, as it is before said. The sixth is, that God is all thing that is good, as to my sight; and the goodness that all thing hath, it is he. And all this our Lord shewed in the first sight, and gave me space and time to behold it; and the bodily sight stinted, and the ghostly sight dwelleth in my understanding. And I abode with reverent dread, joying in that I saw, and desiring, as I durst, to see more if it were his will, or longer time the same sight.

In all this I was much stirred in charity to mine 2.

THE FIRST REVELATION,

even Christian, that they might all see and know the same that I saw; for I would that it were comfort to them, for all this sight was shewed in general. Then said I to them that were with me, ‘It is this day, dooms-day with me.’ And this I said, for I went [weened] to have died: for that day that man or woman dieth, is he deemed particularly, as he shall be without end, as to my understanding. This 1 said, for I would they should love God the better, for to make them to have mind that this life is short, as they might see in example; for in all this time I weened to have dyed, and that was marvaile to me, and wonder in party; for methought this vision was shewed for them that should live: all that I say of me, I mean in person of all my even Christian; for I am learned in the ghostly shewing of our Lord God that he meaneth so. And therefore, I pray you all for God’s sake, and counsel you for your own profit, that you leave the beholding of a wretch that it was shewed to; and mightily, wisely, and meekly, behold in God, that of his courtesie, love, and endless goodness, would shew it generally in comfort of us all: for it is Gods will that ye take it with a great joy and liking, as Jesu Christ hath shewed it to you.

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THE NINTH CHAPTER

The Ninth Chapter

For the shewing I am not good but if I love God the better; and inasmuch as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me. I say not this to them that be wise, for they wit it well, but I say it to you that be simple, for ease and comfort; for we be all one in love: for verily it was not shewed to me for that God loveth me better than the least soul that is in grace: for I am sure, there be many that never hath shewing ne sight but of the common teaching of Holy Church, that love God better than I: for if I look singularly to myself, I am right nought; but in general I am { hope in one-head of charity with all my even Christian ; for in this one-head standeth the life of all mankind that shall be saved; for God is all that is good, as to my sight. And God hath made all that is made, and God loveth all that he hath made; and he that generally loveth all his even Christen for God [ie. for God's sake] he loveth all that is. ; For in mankind that shall be saved, is comprehended all; that is to say, all that is made, ae

THE FIRST REVELATION,