Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich
all to his bliss in heaven. He shewed him diverse | times raigning, as it is aforesaid; but principally in | mans soul: he hath taken there his resting place, | and his worshipful city ; out of which worshipful see he shall never rise, ne remove without end. Marvellous and solemn is the place where the Lord | dwelleth. And therefore he will that we readily entend to his gracious touching, more enjoying in his whole love, then sorrowing in our often fallings. For it is the most worship to him of any thing, that we may do, that we live gladly and merrily for his love in our penance; for he beholdeth us so tenderly, that he seeth all our living here to be penance. For | | kind longing in us to him is a lasting penance in us, which penance he worketh in us, and mercifully helpeth us to bear it; for his love maketh him to long: his wisdom and his truth with his rightfulhead maketh him to suffer us here. And in this | y manner he will see it in us; for this is our kindly |j penance, and the highest to my sight. For this | }; penance cometh never fro us, till what time that | t | ns h we be fulfilled, when we should have him to our | y meed. And therefore he will that we set our hearts | fj in the overpassing ; that is to say, fro the pain that | y we feel into the bliss that we trust. — . x gh i ke 212 1
THE &IGHTY-FIRST CHAPTER,
The Eighty-first. Chapter
Bur here shewed our courteous Lord the moaning and the mourning of our soul, meaning thus: ‘J wot well thou nilt live for my love, merrily and gladly suffering all the penance that may come to thee: but forasmuch as thou livest not without sin, therefore thou art heavy and sorrowful. And if thou mightest live without sin, thou nouldest suffer for my love all the moe that might come to thee, and it is sooth: but be not too much agrieved mith sin that falleth to thee against thy mill.’ And here I understood that the Lord beheld the servant with pity, and not with blaim; for this passing life asketh not to live all without sin. He loveth us endlesly, and we sin customably ; and he sheweth it us full mildely, and then we sorrow and mourn discreetly, turning us into the ' beholding of his mercy, cleaving to his love and to bi his goodness, seeing that he is our medicine, witting that we do (nothing) but sin. And thus by the w] meekness that we get in the sight of our sin, faithfully knowing his everlasting love, him thanking and praising, we please him. ‘J love thee and thou lovest | me, and our love shall never be departed in two; and for | thy profit I suffer. And all this was shewed in | ghostly understanding, saying this blessed word; ‘J keep thee full stkerly.’ And by the great desire that I 213
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saw in our blessed Lord, that we should live in this | manner, that is to say, in longing and enjoying, as all this lesson of love sheweth, thereby I under- | stand that all that is contrarious to this, it is not of | him, but it is of enmity. And he will that we know | it by the sweet gracious light of his kind love. If any such liver be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not; for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed, that in falling, and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one love.
For in the beholding of God we fall not. Andin | the beholding of our self, we stand not. And both | these be sooth, as to my sight. But the beholding | of our Lord God is the higher soothness. "Then are | we much bound to him, that he will in this living |. shew us this high soothness. And I understood y i whiles we be in this life, it is full speedful to us that |“ we see these both at once. For the higher beholding keepeth us in ghostly joy, and true enjoying in God: that other that is the lower beholding keepeth us in dread, and maketh us ashamed of ourself. But our good Lord will ever that we hold us much more in the beholding of the higher, and not leave the knowing of the lower, into the time that we be brought up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesu to our meed, and be fulfilled of joy and bliss without end.
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THE EIGHTY-SECOND CHAPTER,
The Eighty-second Chapter
all to his bliss in heaven. He showed him diverse | times raigning, as it is aforesaid; but principally in | mans soul: he has taken there his resting place, | and his worshipful city ; out of which worshipful see he shall never rise, ne remove without end. Marvellous and solemn is the place where the Lord | dwells. And therefore he will that we readily entend to his gracious touching, more enjoying in his whole love, then sorrowing in our often fallings. For it is the most worship to him of any thing, that we may do, that we live gladly and merrily for his love in our penance; for he beholds us so tenderly, that he sees all our living here to be penance. For | | kind longing in us to him is a lasting penance in us, which penance he works in us, and mercifully helps us to bear it; for his love makes him to long: his wisdom and his truth with his rightfulhead makes him to suffer us here. And in this | y manner he will see it in us; for this is our kindly |j penance, and the highest to my sight. For this | }; penance comes never fro us, till what time that | t | ns h we be fulfilled, when we should have him to our | y meed. And therefore he will that we set our hearts | fj in the overpassing ; that is to say, fro the pain that | y we feel into the bliss that we trust. — . x gh i ke 212 1
THE &IGHTY-FIRST CHAPTER,
The Eighty-first. Chapter
Bur here showed our courteous Lord the moaning and the mourning of our soul, meaning thus: ‘J wot well you nilt live for my love, merrily and gladly suffering all the penance that may come to you: but forasmuch as you livest not without sin, therefore you are heavy and sorrowful. And if you might live without sin, you nouldest suffer for my love all the moe that might come to you, and it is sooth: but be not too much agrieved mith sin that falls to you against your mill.’ And here I understood that the Lord beheld the servant with pity, and not with blaim; for this passing life asks not to live all without sin. He loves us endlesly, and we sin customably ; and he shows it us full mildely, and then we sorrow and mourn discreetly, turning us into the ' beholding of his mercy, cleaving to his love and to bi his goodness, seeing that he is our medicine, witting that we do (nothing) but sin. And thus by the w] meekness that we get in the sight of our sin, faithfully knowing his everlasting love, him thanking and praising, we please him. ‘J love you and you lovest | me, and our love shall never be departed in two; and for | your profit I suffer. And all this was showed in | ghostly understanding, saying this blessed word; ‘J keep you full stkerly.’ And by the great desire that I 213
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saw in our blessed Lord, that we should live in this | manner, that is to say, in longing and enjoying, as all this lesson of love shows, thereby I under- | stand that all that is contrarious to this, it is not of | him, but it is of enmity. And he will that we know | it by the sweet gracious light of his kind love. If any such liver be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not; for it was not showed me. But this was showed, that in falling, and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one love.
For in the beholding of God we fall not. Andin | the beholding of our self, we stand not. And both | these be sooth, as to my sight. But the beholding | of our Lord God is the higher soothness. "Then are | we much bound to him, that he will in this living |. show us this high soothness. And I understood y i whiles we be in this life, it is full speedful to us that |“ we see these both at once. For the higher beholding keeps us in ghostly joy, and true enjoying in God: that other that is the lower beholding keeps us in dread, and makes us ashamed of ourself. But our good Lord will ever that we hold us much more in the beholding of the higher, and not leave the knowing of the lower, into the time that we be brought up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesu to our meed, and be fulfilled of joy and bliss without end.
p. 214
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THE EIGHTY-SECOND CHAPTER,
The Eighty-second Chapter
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