Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

thy endless joy. See thine own brother, thy Saviour, my child, behold and see what liking and bliss I have in thy salvation: And for my love enjoy with me. And also to more understanding, this blessed word was said: ‘Zoe, how I love thee;’ as if he had said, * Behold and see that I loved thee so much, or | ere] that I died for thee, that I would die for thee. And now 1 have died for thee, and suffered willing fully that 1 nay : and nom is all my bitter pain, and all my hard travel turned to everlasting joy and bliss to me and to thee. How should it now be that thou shouldest any thing pray me that liked me, but if [that] I should full gladly grant it thee ; for my liking ts thy holiness, and the endless joy and bliss nith me.’ This is the understanding simply, as I can say of this blessed word, ‘ Loc, how I loved thee? This shewed our good Lord to make pies and merry.

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ND with this chear of mirth and joy, our good ? Lord looked down on the right side, and : brought to my mind, where our Lady stood in the time of his passion, and said, “ Wilt thou see her?" : And in this sweet word, as if he had said, * 7 wot weil | that. thou wilt see my blessed mother: for after myself, | she is the highest Joy that 1 might shew thee, and most liking and worship to me, and most she is desired to ibe seen of all my blessed creatures.’ And for the marvellous, high, and singular love that he hath to (this sweet maiden, his blessed mother our lady Saint Mary, he sheweth her bliss and joy; as by the meaning of this sweet word, as if he said, * Wilt thou see hom that I love her, that thou might joy with me in Í the love that I have in her, and she in me € ?' Aud also

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himself she is the most blessedful sight: but hereof am I not learned to long to see her bodily presence while I am here; but the vertues of her blessedful ] soul, her truth, her wisdom, her charity, whereby I | am learned to know myself, and reverently dread my God. And when our good Lord had shewed this, and said this word, * Wilt thou see her ?' I answered and said, * Yea good Lord, grant mercy, yea good Lord '| if it be thy will. Oftentimes I prayed this, and | I went [weened] to have seen her in bodily liking, but I saw her not so. And Jesu in that word shewed _ , me a ghostly sight of her, right as I had seen her | before, litle and simple ; right so he shewed her then - high and noble, and glorious, and pleasing to him ; above all creatures; and so he will that it be known, that all those that like in him, should also like in her And to more understanding he shewed this example ; as if a man love a creature singularly above all creatures, he will make all other creatures to love | and to like that creature that he loveth so much And in this word that Jesu said, * Wilt thou see her?’ .. methought it was the most liking word that he might give me of her, with the ghostly shewing that he gave me of her. For our Lord shewed me nothing i special, but our lady Saint Mary, and her shewed three times. The first was as she conceived; the second as she was in her sorrow under the cross; and the | third was, as she is now in liking, worship, and joy. LE 66 |

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The Twelfth Webelatton The Twenty-siath Chapter