Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
the full accord of all the Trinity, the mid Person would be ground and head of this fair kind, out of whom we be all come, in whom we be all enclosed, into whom we shall all goe ; in him finding our full heaven in everlasting joy, by the foreseeing purpose of all the blessed Trinity fro without beginning. For or that he made us he loved us; and when we were made, we loved him. And this 1s a love made of the kindly substancial goodness of the Holy Ghost; mightily, in reason of the might of the Father, and. wise, in mind of the wisdom of the Son. And thus is mans soul made of God; and in the same point knit to God. And thus I understood that mans soul is made of naught : that 1s to say, it is made, but of naught that is made; asthus: when God should make mans body, he took the slime of the earth, which is a matter medled and gathered of all bodily things; and thereof he made mans body. But to the making of mans soul, he would take right naught, but made it. And thus is the kind made rightfully oned to the Maker; which is substancial kind unmade, that is God. And therefore it is, that there may, ne shall be right naught between God and mans soul: and in this endless love mans soul is kept whole, as all the matter of the revelation meaneth and sheweth. In which endless love we be led and kept of God, and never shall be lost; for he will that we know that our soul is a life; which 144
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life of his goodness and his grace shall last in heaven without end, him loving, him thanking, him praising. And right the same that we should be without end, the same we were treasured in God, and hid, known, and loved fro without beginning. Wherefore he will we wit that the noblest thing that ever he made is mankind; and the fullest substance and the highest vertue is the blessed soul of Christ. And furthermore he will we wit, that this dear worthy soul was preciously knit to him in the making: which knot is so subtile and so mighty, that it is oned into God. In which oning it is made endlesly holy. Furthermore he will we wit that all the souls that shall be saved in heaven without end, be knit in this knot, and oned in this oning, and made holy in this holiness,
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AND for the great endless love that God hath to all mankind, he maketh no departing in love between the blessed soul of Christ, and the least soul that shall be saved: for it is full easie to believe and trust, that the dwelling of the blessed soul of Christ is full high in the glorious God-head. And truly as I understood3in our Lords meaning; where the blessed soul of Christ is there is the substance Le K a a a
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of all the souls that shall be saved by Christ. | Highly owe we to enjoy that God dwelleth in our soul; and more highly we owe to enjoy, that our soul dwelleth in God. Our soul is made to be Gods dwelling place; and the dwelling of our | soul is God, which is unmade. A high understand- | ing it is inwardly to see and to know that God | which is our maker, dwelleth in our soul. And a | higher understanding it is, and more inwardly, to | see and to know our soul that is made dwelleth | in God in substance: of which substance by God we be that we be. And I saw no difference be- | tween God and our substance, but as it were all ! God. And yet my understanding took, that our | substance is in God ; that is to say, that God is God, | and our substance is a creature in God. For the | almighty truth of the Trinity is our Father: for he | made us, and keepeth us in him: and the deep | wisdom of the Trinity is our mother, in whom we , be closed : and the high goodness of the Trinity is our Lord, and in him we be closed, and he in us. We be closed in the Father, and we be closed in the | Son, and we be closed in the Holy Ghost. And the Father is beclosed in us; the Son is beclosed in us ;| and the Holy Ghost is beclosed in us: all might, all wisdom, and all goodness, one God, one Lord. And our faith is a vertue that cometh of our kind substance into our sensual soul by the Holy Ghost. | 116
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In which vertue all our vertues come into us; for without that, no man may receive vertues; for it is naught else but a right understanding, with true belief, and sure trust of our being, that we be in God, and he in us, which we see not. And this vertue with all others that God hath ordained to us coming therein, worketh in us great things; for Christ mercifully is working in us; and we graciously according to him through the gift and the vertue of the Holy Ghost, This working maketh that we be Christs children, and christen in lyving.
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the full accord of all the Trinity, the mid Person would be ground and head of this fair kind, out of whom we be all come, in whom we be all enclosed, into whom we shall all goe ; in him finding our full heaven in everlasting joy, by the foreseeing purpose of all the blessed Trinity fro without beginning. For or that he made us he loved us; and when we were made, we loved him. And this 1s a love made of the kindly substancial goodness of the Holy Ghost; mightily, in reason of the might of the Father, and. wise, in mind of the wisdom of the Son. And thus is mans soul made of God; and in the same point knit to God. And thus I understood that mans soul is made of naught : that 1s to say, it is made, but of naught that is made; asthus: when God should make mans body, he took the slime of the earth, which is a matter medled and gathered of all bodily things; and thereof he made mans body. But to the making of mans soul, he would take right naught, but made it. And thus is the kind made rightfully oned to the Maker; which is substancial kind unmade, that is God. And therefore it is, that there may, ne shall be right naught between God and mans soul: and in this endless love mans soul is kept whole, as all the matter of the revelation means and shows. In which endless love we be led and kept of God, and never shall be lost; for he will that we know that our soul is a life; which 144
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life of his goodness and his grace shall last in heaven without end, him loving, him thanking, him praising. And right the same that we should be without end, the same we were treasured in God, and hid, known, and loved fro without beginning. Wherefore he will we wit that the noblest thing that ever he made is mankind; and the fullest substance and the highest vertue is the blessed soul of Christ. And furthermore he will we wit, that this dear worthy soul was preciously knit to him in the making: which knot is so subtile and so mighty, that it is oned into God. In which oning it is made endlesly holy. Furthermore he will we wit that all the souls that shall be saved in heaven without end, be knit in this knot, and oned in this oning, and made holy in this holiness,
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AND for the great endless love that God has to all mankind, he makes no departing in love between the blessed soul of Christ, and the least soul that shall be saved: for it is full easie to believe and trust, that the dwelling of the blessed soul of Christ is full high in the glorious God-head. And truly as I understood3in our Lords meaning; where the blessed soul of Christ is there is the substance Le K a a a
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of all the souls that shall be saved by Christ. | Highly owe we to enjoy that God dwells in our soul; and more highly we owe to enjoy, that our soul dwells in God. Our soul is made to be Gods dwelling place; and the dwelling of our | soul is God, which is unmade. A high understand- | ing it is inwardly to see and to know that God | which is our maker, dwells in our soul. And a | higher understanding it is, and more inwardly, to | see and to know our soul that is made dwells | in God in substance: of which substance by God we be that we be. And I saw no difference be- | tween God and our substance, but as it were all ! God. And yet my understanding took, that our | substance is in God ; that is to say, that God is God, | and our substance is a creature in God. For the | almighty truth of the Trinity is our Father: for he | made us, and keeps us in him: and the deep | wisdom of the Trinity is our mother, in whom we , be closed : and the high goodness of the Trinity is our Lord, and in him we be closed, and he in us. We be closed in the Father, and we be closed in the | Son, and we be closed in the Holy Ghost. And the Father is beclosed in us; the Son is beclosed in us ;| and the Holy Ghost is beclosed in us: all might, all wisdom, and all goodness, one God, one Lord. And our faith is a vertue that comes of our kind substance into our sensual soul by the Holy Ghost. | 116
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In which vertue all our vertues come into us; for without that, no man may receive vertues; for it is naught else but a right understanding, with true belief, and sure trust of our being, that we be in God, and he in us, which we see not. And this vertue with all others that God has ordained to us coming therein, works in us great things; for Christ mercifully is working in us; and we graciously according to him through the gift and the vertue of the Holy Ghost, This working makes that we be Christs children, and christen in lyving.
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