Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

and the Maker of all; for in man is God, and in God is all; and he that loveth thus, he loveth all. And I hope by the grace of God, he that beholdeth it thus, shall be truly taught, and mightily comforted, if him needeth comfort: I speak of them that shall be saved, for in this time God shewed me none other, But in all thing I believe as Holy Church preacheth and teacheth; for the faith of Holy Church, [of] which I had before-hand understanding, and as I hope by the grace of God will fully keep it in use and custome, stood continually m my sight, willing and meaning never to receive any thing that might be contrary thereto. And with this intent, and with; this meaning I beheld the shewing with all my diligence; for in all this blessed shewing, I beheld it as in Gods meaning. All this was shewed by three parts; that is to say, by bodily sight, and by words formed in my understanding, and by ghostly sight ; but the ghostly sight I cannot, ne may shew it as openly, ne as fully as I would; but I trust in our Lord God Almighty, that he shall of his goodness, and for your love, make you to take it more ghostly and more sweetly than I can or may tell it.

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ND after this, I saw with bodily sight, in the face of the crucifix that hung before me: in the which, I beheld continually a part of his passion ; despite, spitting, sulloing and buffeting, and many languring pains, more than I can tell; and often changing of colour: and one time I saw how half the face, beginning at the ear, over-yede with dry blood, till it closed into the mid-face: and | after that, the other half be closed in the same | wise. And the whiles, it vanished in this party even as it came. This saw I bodily sweinly and darkly; and I desired more bodily light to have seen more clearly, and J was answered in my reason, ‘If God will shew thee more, he shall be thy light, thou need none but him,’ For I saw him and sought him: for we be now so blind and so unwise, that we can never seek God till what time that he of his goodness sheweth him tous. And when we see ought of him graciously,

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then are we stirred by the same grace, to seek with great desire to see him more blessedfully. And thus I saw him and sought him, and I had him and wanted him: and this is and should be our common working in this life, as to my sight. One time my understanding was litle [ ? led] down into the sea-ground ; and there saw I hills, and dales green, seeming as it were most begrowing with wrake and gravel: then I understood thus, that if a man or woman were there under the broad water, and he might have sight of God, so as God is with a man continually, he should be safe in soul and body, and take no harm, and overpassing he should have more solace and comfort than all this world may or can tell. For he will that we believe that we see him continually, though that us think that it be but litle, and in the belief he maketh us evermore to get grace; for he will be seen, and he will be sought, and he will be abiden, and he will be trusted. This second shewing was so low, and so litle, and so simple, that my spirits were in great travail in the beholding, mourning, dreadful, and longing; for I was sometime in a fear, whether it was a shewing or none; and then divers times our Lord gave me more sight, whereby that I understood truly, that it was a shewing. 28 somn

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