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Starting point is 00:00:00 Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love Chapter 1 A revelation of love in 16 showings This is a revelation of love that Jesus Christ, our endless bliss made in 16 showings or revelations particular. Of the which, the first, is of his precious crowning with thorn. and therewith was comprehended and specified the Trinity with the incarnation and unity betwixt God and man's soul,

Starting point is 00:00:42 with many fair showings of endless wisdom and teachings of love, in which all the showings that followed be grounded and woned. The second is the changing of colour of his fair face in token of his dear worthy passion. The third is that our Lord God, Almighty wisdom, all love, Right as verily as he hath made everything that is, Also verily he doeth and worketh all thing that is done. The fourth is the scourging of his tender body

Starting point is 00:01:21 With plenteous shedding of his blood. The fifth is that the fiend is overcome by the precious passion of Christ. The sixth is the worshipful thanking by our Lord God in which he rewardeth his blessed servants in heaven. The seventh is our often feeling of weal and woe. The feeling of weal is gracious touching and lightning, with true assuredness of endless joy. The feeling of woe is temptation by heaviness and irksomeness of our fleshly living.

Starting point is 00:02:00 with ghostly understanding that we are kept all as securely in love in woe as in wheel by the goodness of God. The eighth is of the last pains of Christ and his cruel dying. The ninth is of the pleasing which is in the blissful Trinity by the hard passion of Christ and his rueful dying, in which joy and pleasing he willeth that we be solaced and mirth with him, till when we come to the fullness in heaven. The tenth is, Our Lord Jesus showeth in love his blissful heart, even cloven in two, rejoicing.

Starting point is 00:02:45 The eleventh is an high ghostly showing of his dear worthy mother. The twelfth is that our Lord is most worthy being. The 13th is that our Lord God willeth we have great regard to all the deeds that he hath done, in the great nobleness of the making of all things, and the excellency of man's making, which is above all his works,

Starting point is 00:03:16 and the precious amends that he hath made for man's sin, turning all our blame into endless worship, in which showing also our Lord saith, behold and see, for by the same might, wisdom, and goodness that I have done all this, by the same might, wisdom and goodness, I shall make well all that is not well, and thou shalt see it. And in this he willeth that we keep us in the faith and truth of Holy Church, not desiring to see into his secret things now, save as it belongeth to us in

Starting point is 00:03:56 this life. The fourteenth is that our Lord is the ground of our prayer. herein were seen two properties the one is rightful prayer the other is steadfast trust which he willeth should both be alike large and thus our prayer pleaseth him and he of his goodness fulfileth it the fifteenth is that we shall suddenly be taken from all our pain and from all our woe and of his goodness we shall come up above when we shall come up above when we shall come up above when we shall have our Lord Jesus for our meed and be fulfilled with joy and bliss in heaven. The sixteenth is that the blissful Trinity, our maker, in Christ Jesus our Savior, endlessly dwelleth in our soul, worshipfully ruling and protecting all things, as mightily and wisely saving and keeping for love, and we shall not be overcome of our enemy. End of chapter 1.

Starting point is 00:05:15 Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love. Chapter 2. A simple creature unlettered, which creature afford desired three gifts of God. These revelations were showed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord 1373.

Starting point is 00:05:46 the 13th day of May, which creature had of four desired three gifts of God. The first was mind of his passion. The second was bodily sickness in youth at thirty years of age. The third was to have of God's gift three wounds. As to the first, methought I had some feeling in the passion of Christ, but yet I desired more by the grace of God. We thought I would have been that time with Mary Magdalene, and with other that were Christ's lovers, and therefore I desired a bodily sight wherein I might have more knowledge of the bodily pains of our Saviour,

Starting point is 00:06:33 and of the compassion of our lady, and of all his true lovers that saw that time his pains. For I would be one of the same of the saviour, them and suffer with him. Other sight nor showing of God desired I never none till the soul were departed from the body. The cause of this petition was that after the showing I should have the more true mind in the passion of Christ. The second came to my mind with contrition. I freely desired that sickness to be so hard as to death that I might in that sickness receive all my rights of Holy Church, myself thinking that I should die, and that all creatures might suppose the same that saw me,

Starting point is 00:07:24 for I would have no manner of comfort of earthly life. In this sickness I desired to have all manner of pains bodily and ghostly that I should have if I should die, with all the dreads and tempests of the fiends, except the out-passing of the soul, and this I meant for that I would be purged by the mercy of God, and afterward live more to the worship of God because of that sickness, and that for the more furthering in my death, for I desired to be soon with my God. These two desires of the passion and the sickness, I desired with a condition, saying thus lord thou knowest what i would if it be thy will that i have it and if it be not thy will good lord be not displeased for i will naught but as thou wilt for the third petition by the grace of god and teaching of holy church i conceived a mighty desire to receive three wounds in my life that is to say the wound of very contrition

Starting point is 00:08:41 the wound of kind compassion, and the wound of steadfast longing toward God. And all this last petition I asked without any condition. These two desires aforesaid passed from my mind, but the third dwelt with me continually. End of Chapter 2. This recording is in the public domain. read for librivox dot org by david barnes revelations of divine love chapter three i desired to suffer with him and when i was thirty years old and a half god sent me a bodily sickness in which i lay three days and three nights and on the fourth night i took all my rights of holy church and weaned not to have lived till day

Starting point is 00:09:54 and after this i languored forth two days and two nights and on the third night i weaned oftentimes to have passed and so weaned they that were with me and being in youth as yet i thought it great sorrow to die but for nothing that was in earth that me like to live for nor for no pain that i had fear of for i trusted in god of his mercy but it was to have lived that I might have loved God better and longer time, that I might have the more knowing and loving of God in bliss of heaven. For me thought all the time that I had lived here so little and so short in regard of that endless bliss. I thought it was as nothing. Wherefore I thought,

Starting point is 00:10:47 Good Lord, may my living no longer be to thy worship, and I understood by my reason and by my feeling of my pains that I should die, and I assented fully with all the will of my heart to be at God's will. Thus I endured till day, and by then my body was dead from the middle downwards as to my feeling. Then was I minded to be set upright, backward leaning with help, for to have more freedom of my heart to be at heart, God's will, and thinking on God while my life would last.

Starting point is 00:11:27 My curate was sent for to be at my ending, and by that time when he came I had set my eyes and might not speak. He set the cross before my face and said, I have brought thee the image of thy master and saviour, look thereupon and comfort thee therewith. We thought I was well as it was, for my heart. eyes were set uprightward unto heaven, where I trusted to come by the mercy of God. But nevertheless I assented to set my eyes on the face of the crucifix, if I might, and so I did, for me thought I might longer endure to look even forth than right up. After this my sight began to fail, and it was all dark about me in the chamber, as if it had been night, save in the night.

Starting point is 00:12:21 the image of the cross whereupon I beheld a common light, and I wist not how. All that was away from the cross was of horror to me, as if it had been greatly occupied by the fiends. After this the upper part of my body began to die, so far forth that scarcely I had any feeling, with shortness of breath, and then I weaned in sooth to have passed. And in this moment, suddenly all my pain was taken from me, and I was as whole, and especially in the upper part of my body, as ever I was afore. I marveled at this sudden change, for me thought it was a privy working of God and not of nature, and yet by the feeling of this ease I trusted never the more to live, nor was the feeling of this ease any full ease unto me,

Starting point is 00:13:22 for me thought I had Leifah have been delivered from this world. Then came suddenly to my mind that I should desire the second wound of our Lord's gracious gift, that my body might be fulfilled with mind and feeling of his blessed passion, for I would that his pains were my pains, with compassion and afterward longing to God. But in this I desired never bodily sight nor showing of God, but compassion such as a kind soul might have with our Lord Jesus, that for love would be a mortal man, and therefore I desired to suffer with him.

Starting point is 00:14:09 End of Chapter 3. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 4 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich The First Revelation Chapter 4 I saw, as it were in the time of his passion and in the same showing suddenly the Trinity

Starting point is 00:14:43 filled my heart with utmost joy In this moment, suddenly I saw the red blood trickled down from under the garland, hot and freshly, and right plenteously, as it were in the time of his passion, when the garland of thorns was pressed on his blessed head, who was both God and man, the same that suffered thus for me. I conceived truly and mightily that it was himself showed it me, without any mean. and in the same showing suddenly the trinity fulfilled my heart most of joy and so i understood it shall be in heaven without end to all that shall come there for the trinity is god god is the trinity the trinity is our maker and keeper the trinity is our everlasting love and everlasting joy and bliss by our lord jesus christ

Starting point is 00:15:47 Christ. And this was showed in the first showing, and in all, for where Jesus appeareth, the blessed Trinity is understood as to my sight. And I said, Benedicte Dominé, this I said for reverence in my meaning with mighty voice, and full greatly was astonid for wonder and marvel that I had, that he that is so reverend and dreadful will be so homeless, with a sinful creature living in wretched flesh. This showing I took for the time of my temptation, for me thought by the sufferance of God I should be tempted of fiends ere I died.

Starting point is 00:16:34 Through this sight of the blessed passion, with the Godhead that I saw in mine understanding, I knew well that it was strength enough for me, yea, and for all creatures living against all the fiends of hell and ghost-es. temptation. In this showing, he brought our blessed lady to my understanding. I saw her ghostly, in bodily likeness, a simple maid and a meek, young of age, and little waxen above a child, in the stature that she was when she conceived. Also God showed in part the wisdom and the truth of

Starting point is 00:17:13 her soul, wherein I understood the reverent beholding in which she beheld her God and Maker, marvelling with great reverence that he would be born of her that was a simple creature of his making. And this wisdom and truth, knowing the greatness of her maker and the littleness of herself that was made, caused her to say full meekly to Gabriel, lo me, me, God's handmaid. In this sight I understood Soutly that she is more than all that God made Beneath her in worthiness and grace For above her is nothing that is made

Starting point is 00:17:56 But the blessed manhood of Christ as to my sight End of Chapter 4 This recording is in the public domain Chapter 5 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich The first revelation, chapter five God, of thy goodness, give me thyself, only in thee I have all.

Starting point is 00:18:40 In this same time our Lord showed me a spiritual sight of his homely loving. I saw that he is to us everything that is good and comfortable for us. he is our clothing that for love wrappeth us claspeth us and all encloses us for tender love that he may never leave us being to us all thing that is good as to mine understanding also in this he showed me a little thing the quantity of an hazelnut in the palm of my hand and it was as round as a ball i looked thereupon with eye of my understanding and thought what may this be and it was answered generally thus it is all that is made I marvelled how it might last for me thought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for littleness and I was answered in my understanding it lasteth and ever shall last for that God loveth it and so all thing hath the being by the love of God in this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second is that God loveth it,

Starting point is 00:20:00 the third, that God keepeth it. But what is to me, verily the maker, the keeper, and the lover? I cannot tell, for till I am substantially woned to him, I may never have full rest nor very bliss. That is to say, till I be so fastened to him that there is right naught that there is right naught that is made betwixt my God and me. It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures, and to hold us naught all thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade. For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul, that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is almighty, all wise, all good, for he is the very rest. God willeth to be known, and it pleaseth him that we rest in him,

Starting point is 00:21:02 for all that is beneath him sufficeeth not us, and this is the cause why that no soul is rested till it is made naught as to all things that are made, when it is willingly made naught for love to have him that is all, then is it able to receive spiritual rest. Also our Lord God showed me that it is full great pleasance to him that a helpless soul come to him simply and plainly and homely. For this is the natural yearnings of the soul, by the touching of the Holy Ghost, as by the understanding that I have in this showing.

Starting point is 00:21:45 God, of thy goodness, give me thyself, for thou art enough to me, and I may nothing ask that is less that may be full worship to thee. And if I ask anything that is less ever me wanteth, but only in thee I have all. All these words are full lovely to the soul, and full near touch they the will of God and his goodness, for His goodness comprehendeth all his creatures and all his blessed works, and overpasseth without end. For he is the endlessness, and he hath made us only to himself, and restored us by his blessed passion, and keepeth us in his blessed love, and all this of his goodness. End of chapter 5. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 6 of Revelations of Divine Love

Starting point is 00:22:56 Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The first revelation, chapter 6. The goodness of God is the highest prayer and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need. This showing was made to learn our soul wisely to cleave to the goodness of God. and in that time the custom of our praying was brought to mind how we use for lack of understanding and knowing of love to take many means whereby to beseech him then saw i truly that it is more worship to god and more very delight that we faithfully pray to himself of his goodness and cleave thereunto by his grace with true understanding and steadfast love

Starting point is 00:23:56 than if we took all the means that heart can think for if we took all these means it is too little and not full worship to god but in his goodness is all the whole and there faileth right naught for this as i shall tell came to my mind in the same time we pray to god for the sake of his holy flesh and his precious blood his holy passion his dear worthy death and wounds and all the blessed kindness the endless life that we have of all this is his goodness and we pray him for the sake of his sweet mother's love that him bear and all the help we have of her is of his goodness and we pray by his holy cross that he died on and all the virtue and the help that we have of the cross it is of his goodness and on the same wise all the help that we have of special saints and all the blessed company of heaven the dear worthy love and endless friendship that we have of them it is of his goodness for god of his goodness hath ordained means to help us full fair and many of which the chief and principal mean is the blessed nature that he took of the maid with all the means that go afore and come after which belong to our redemption and to endless salvation wherefore it pleaseth him that we seek him and worship through means understanding that he is the goodness of all for the goodness of god is the highest prayer and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need it quickeneth our soul and bringeth it on life and maketh it for to waxen in grace and virtue

Starting point is 00:25:56 it is nearest in nature and readiest in grace for it is the same grace that the soul seeketh and ever shall seek till we know verily that he hath us all in himself enclosed for he hath no despite of that he hath made nor hath he any disdain to serve us at the simplest office that to our body belongeth in nature for love of the soul that he hath made to his own likeness for as the body is clad in the cloth and the flesh in the skin and the bones in the flesh and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the goodness of God and enclosed. Yea, and more homely, for all these may waste and wear away, but the goodness of God is ever whole and more near to us without any likeness. for truly our lover desireth that our soul cleave to him with all its might, and that we be ever more cleaving to his goodness.

Starting point is 00:27:06 For of all things that heart may think, this pleaseth most God, and soonest speedeth the soul. For our soul is so specially loved of him that is highest, that it overpasseth the knowing of all creatures, That is to say, there is no creature that is made that may fully know how much and how sweetly and how tenderly our maker loveth us. And therefore we may with grace and his help stand in spiritual beholding, with everlasting marvel of this high, overpassing, inestimable love, that Almighty God hath to us of his goodness. and therefore we may ask of our lover with reverence all that we will.

Starting point is 00:27:57 For our natural will is to have God, and the good will of God is to have us, and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have him in fullness of joy, and then may we no more desire. For he willeth that we be occupied in knowing and loving, till the time that we shall be fulfilled in heaven. And therefore was this lesson of love showed, with all that followeth as ye shall see. For the strength and the ground of all

Starting point is 00:28:32 was showed in the first sight. For of all things the beholding and the loving of the maker maketh the soul to seem less in its own sight, and most filleth him with reverent dread and true meekness, with plenty of charity to his even Christians. End of Chapter 6. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 7 of Revelations of Divine Love,

Starting point is 00:29:10 read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The first revelation, chapter 7. The showing is not other than of first. faith, nor less, nor more. And it was to learn us this, as to mine understanding, that our Lord God showed our Lady St. Mary in the same time. That is to say, the high wisdom and truth she had in beholding of her maker so great, so holy, so mighty, and so good. This greatness and this nobleness of the beholding of God fulfilled her with reverent dread.

Starting point is 00:29:57 And with all she saw herself so little and so low, so simple and so poor, in regard of her Lord God, that this reverent dread fulfilled her with meekness. And thus, by this ground of meekness, she was fulfilled with grace and with all manner of virtues, and overpasseth all creatures. In all the time that he showed this that I have told now in spiritual sight, I saw the bodily sight lasting of the plenteous bleeding of the head. The great drops of blood fell down from under the garland like pellets, seeming as it had come out of the veins,

Starting point is 00:30:44 and in the coming out they were brown-red, for the blood was full thick, and in the spreading abroad they were bright red, and when they came to the brows, then they vanished. Notwithstanding, the bleeding continued, till many things were seen and understood. The fairness and the lifelikeness is like nothing but the same. The plenteousness is like to the drops of water that fall off the eaves after a great shower of rain,

Starting point is 00:31:16 that fall so thick that no man may number them with bodily wit, and for the roundness they were like to the scale of herring in the spreading on the forehead. These three came to my mind in the time, pellets for roundness in the coming out of the blood, the scale of herring in the spreading in the forehead for roundness, the drops off eaves for the plenteousness innumerable. The showing was quick and lifelike, and horrifying and dreadful, sweet and lovely. And of all the sight it was most comfort to me that our God and Lord that is so reverend and dreadful is so homely and courteous, and this most fulfilled me with comfort and assuredness of soul. And to the understanding of this he showed this one example.

Starting point is 00:32:12 It is the most worship that a solemn king or a great lord may do a poor servant, if he will be homely with him, and especially if he showeth it himself of a full true meaning, and with a glad cheer both privately and in company. Then thinketh this poor creature thus, And what might this noble lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me, That am so simple, this marvellous homeliness. Soothely it is more joy and pleasance to me than if he gave me great gifts and were himself strange in manner. This bodily example was showed so highly

Starting point is 00:32:58 that man's heart might be ravished, and almost forgetting itself for joy of the great homeliness. Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For verily it is the most, joy that may be, as to my sight, that he that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous, and truly and verily, this marvellous joy shall be shown us all when we see him. And this willeth our Lord that we seek for and trust to, joy and delight in,

Starting point is 00:33:40 comforting us and solacing us as we may with his grace and with his help unto the time that we see it verily for the most fullness of joy that we shall have as to my sight is the marvellous courtesy and homeliness of our father that is our maker in our lord jesus christ that is our brother and our saviour but this marvellous homeliness may no man fully see in this time of life save he have it of special showing of our Lord, or of great plenty of grace inwardly given of the Holy Ghost, but faith and belief with charity deserveth the mead, and so it is had by grace, for in faith with hope and charity our life is grounded. The showing, made to whom that God will, plainly teacheth the same, opened and declared, with many privy points belonging to our faith which be worshipful to know, and when the showing which is given in a time is passed and hid,

Starting point is 00:34:50 then the faith keepeth it by grace of the Holy Ghost unto our life's end. And thus through the showing it is not other than of faith, nor less, nor more, as it may be seen in our Lord's teaching in the same matter, by that time that it shall come to the end. End of Chapter 7. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 8 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes.

Starting point is 00:35:31 Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The first revelation, Chapter 8. In all this, I was greatly stirred in charity to my fellow Christians that they might see and know the same that I saw. And as long as I saw this sight of the plenteous bleeding of the head, I might never cease from these words, Benedicte Dominé, in which showing I understood six things. The first is, the tokens of the blessed passion

Starting point is 00:36:09 and the plenteous shedding of his precious blood. The second is, the maiden, that is his dearer, worthy mother. The third is, the blissful Godhead that ever was, is and ever shall be, almighty, all wisdom, all love. The fourth is, all thing that he hath made. For well I wot that heaven and earth, and all that is made is great and large, fair, and good. But the cause why it showed so little to my sight was for that I saw it in the presence of Him. him that is the maker of all things, for to a soul that seeth the maker of all, all that is made seemeth full little. The fifth is, he that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them,

Starting point is 00:37:05 and shall keep them without end. The sixth is, that God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is he. And all these our Lord showed me in the first sight, with time and space to behold it, and the bodily sight stinted, but the spiritual sight dwelt in my understanding, and I abode with reverent dread, joying in that I saw,

Starting point is 00:37:38 and I desired as I durst to see more, if it were his will, or else to see for longer time the same. In all this I was greatly stirred in charity to mine even Christians, that they might see and know the same that I saw, for I would it were comfort to them, for all this sight was showed with general regard. Then said I to them that were about me, it is to-day doomsday with me,

Starting point is 00:38:10 and this I said for that I thought to have died. For that day that a man dieth he is judged, as shall be without end, as to mine understanding. This I said for that I would they might love God the better, for to make them to have in mind that this life is short, that they might see an example. For in all this time I weaned to have died, and that was marveled to me, and troublous partly.

Starting point is 00:38:40 for me thought this vision was showed for them that should live, and that which I say of me, I say in the person of all mine even Christians, for I am taught in the spiritual showing of our Lord God that he meaneth so. And therefore I pray you all for God's sake, and counsel you all for your own prophet, that ye leave the beholding of a poor creature that it was showed to,

Starting point is 00:39:08 and mightily, wisely, and meekly behold God, that of his courteous love and endless goodness would show it generally, in comfort of us all. For it is God's will that ye take it with great joy and pleasance, as if Jesus had showed it to you all. End of Chapter 8. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 9 of Revelations of Divine Love read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich The First Revelation

Starting point is 00:39:57 Chapter 9 If I look singularly to myself, I am right naught Because of the showing I am not good But if I love God the better And inasmuch as ye 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 wot it well, but I say it to you that be simple, for ease and comfort,

Starting point is 00:40:28 for we are all one in comfort. For truly it was not showed me that God loved me better than the least soul that is in grace, for I am certain that there be many that never had shown, nor 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 naught. But in the general body I am, I hope, in oneness of charity with all mine even Christians. For in this oneness 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,

Starting point is 00:41:11 all that is made, and God loveth all that he hath made, and he that loveth generally all his even Christians for God, he loveth all that is. For in mankind that shall be saved is comprehended all, that is to say, all that is made, and the maker of all. For in man is God, and God is in all. and I hope by the grace of God He that beholdetheth at thus Shall be truly taught and mightily comforted If he needeth comfort I speak of them that shall be saved

Starting point is 00:41:52 For in this time God showed me none other But in all things I believe as Holy Church believeth Preacheth and teacheth For the faith of Holy Church The which I had aforehand understood and, as I hope, by the grace of God earnestly kept in use and custom, stood continually in my sight. I willing and meaning never to receive anything that might be contrary thereunto, and with this intent I beheld the showing with all my diligence,

Starting point is 00:42:26 for in all this blessed showing I beheld it as one in God's meaning. And all this showed by three ways, that is to be held, to say, by bodily sight, and by word formed in mine understanding, and by spiritual sight. But the spiritual sight I cannot, nor may not show it as openly, nor 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 spiritually and more sweetly than I can or may tell it. End of chapter 9. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 10 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes.

Starting point is 00:43:27 Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The Second Revelation, Chapter 10. God willeth to be seen and to be sought, to be abided, and to be trusted. and after this I saw with bodily sight in the face of the crucifix that hung before me, on the which I gazed continually, a part of his passion, despite spitting and sullying and buffeting and many languoring pains more than I can tell, and often changing of colour, and one time I saw half the face beginning at the ear,

Starting point is 00:44:12 overgone with dry blood till it covered to the mid-face. And after that the other half was covered on the same whys. The wiles in this first part it vanished, even as it came. This saw I bodily, troublessly and darkly, and I desired more bodily sight to have seen more clearly. And I was answered in my reason, if God will show thee more, he shall be thy light. Thie needeth none but him.

Starting point is 00:44:46 For I saw him sought. For we are now so blind and unwise that we never seek God till he of his goodness show himself to us. And when we ought see of him graciously, then are we stirred by the same grace to seek with great desire to see him more blissfully. And thus I saw him, and sought him, and I had him, I wanted him,

Starting point is 00:45:16 and this is, and should be, our common working in this life, as to my sight. One time mine understanding was led down into the sea-ground, and there I saw hills and dales green, seeming as it were must be grown, with rack and gravel. Then I understood thus, that if a man or woman were under the same, the broad water. If he might have sight of God so as God is with a man continually, he should be safe in body and soul, and take no harm. And overpassing, he should have more solace and comfort than all this world can tell. For he willeth we should believe that we see him continually, though that to us it seemeth but little of sight. And in this belief he maketh us ever more to gain grace.

Starting point is 00:46:10 for he will be seen and he will be sought, he will be abided, and he will be trusted. This second showing was so low and so little and so simple, that my spirits were in great travail in the beholding, mourning, full of dread and longing, for I was sometime in doubt whether it was a showing. And then diverse times our good Lord gave me more sight, whereby I understood truly that it was a showing. It was a figure and likeness of our foul deeds shame

Starting point is 00:46:48 that our fair, bright, blessed Lord bear for our sins. It made me think of the holy vernacle at Rome, which he hath portrayed with his own blessed face when he was in his hard passion, with steadfast will going to his death, and often changing of colour, Of the brownness and blackness, the ruefulness and the wastedness of this image, many marvel how it might be, since that he portrayed it with his blessed face,

Starting point is 00:47:19 who is the fairness of heaven, flower of earth, and the fruit of the maiden's womb. Then how might this image be so darkening in colour, and so far from fair? I desire to tell like as I have understood by the grace of God. We know in our faith and believe by the teaching and preaching of Holy Church that the Blessed Trinity made mankind to his image and to his likeness. In the same mannerwise we know that when man fell so deep and so wretchedly by sin, there was none other help to restore man but through him that made man. And he that made man for love, by the same love he would restore man to the same bliss.

Starting point is 00:48:07 and overpassing, and like as we were like made to the Trinity in our first making, our maker would that we should be like Jesus Christ, our saviour, in heaven without end, by the virtue of our again making. Then atwixt these two, he would for love and worship of man make himself as like to man in this deadly life, in our foulness and our wretchedness, as man's. might be without guilt. This is that which is meant, where it is said afore, it was the image and likeness of our foul black deeds shame, wherein our fair, bright, blessed Lord God was hid. But full certainly, I dare say, and we ought to trow it, that so fair a man was never none but he,

Starting point is 00:49:01 till what time his fair colour was changed with travail and sorrow and passion and dying. of this it is spoken in the eighth revelation where it treateth more of the same likeness and where it speaketh of the vernacle of Rome it meaneth by reason of diverse changing of colour and countenance sometime more comfortably and lifelike sometime more ruefully and death-like as it may be seen in the eighth revelation and this dim vision was a learning to mine understanding that the continual seeking of the soul pleaseeth God full greatly, for it may do no more than seek, suffer, and trust. And this is wrought in the soul that hath it by the Holy Ghost, and the clearness of finding it is of his special grace when it is his will. The seeking,

Starting point is 00:50:00 with faith, hope and charity, pleaseth our Lord, and the finding, pleaseth the soul and fulfilleth it with joy. And thus was I learned to mine understanding, that seeking is as good as beholding for the time that he will suffer the soul to be in travail. It is God's will that we seek him to the beholding of him, for by that he shall show us himself of his special grace when he will. And how a soul shall have him in his beholding he shall teach himself. And that is most worship to him and profit to thyself, and the soul thus most receiveth of meekness and virtues with the grace and leading of the Holy Ghost. For a soul that only fasteneth itself unto God with very trust, either by seeking or in

Starting point is 00:50:57 beholding, it is the most worship that it may do to him as to my sight. These are two workings that may be seen in this vision. The one is seeking, the other is beholding. The seeking is common that every soul may have with His grace and ought to have that discretion and teaching of the Holy Church. It is God's will that we have three things in our seeking. The first is that we seek earnestly and diligently, without sloth, and, as it may be through his grace, without unreasonable heaviness and vain sorrow.

Starting point is 00:51:39 The second is that we abide him steadfastly for his love, without murmuring and striving against him to our life's end, for it shall last but a while. The third is that we trust in him mightily of full assured faith, for it is his will that we know that he shall appear, suddenly and blissfully to all that love him. For his working is privy, and he willeth to be perceived, and his appearing shall be swiftly sudden, and he willeth to be trusted, for he is full, gracious and homely. Blessed may he be. End of chapter 10. This recording is in the public

Starting point is 00:52:30 domain. Chapter 11 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The third revelation, chapter 11. All thing that is done, it is well done, for our Lord God doeth all. Sin is no deed. And after this, I saw God. in a point that is to say in my understanding by which sight I saw that he is in all things I beheld and considered seeing and knowing in sight with a soft dread and thought what is sin for I saw truly that God doeth all thing be it never so little and I saw truly that nothing is done by hap nor by adventure but all all things by the foreseeing wisdom of God. If it be hap or adventure in the sight of man, our blindness and our unforesight is the cause. For the things that are in the foreseeing wisdom of God from without beginning, which rightfully and worshipfully and continually he

Starting point is 00:53:59 leadeth to the best end, as they come about fall to us suddenly, ourselves unwitting, and thus by our blindness and our unforesight we say these be haps and adventures but to our lord god they be not so wherefore me behoveth needs to grant that all thing that is done it is well done for our lord god doeth all for in this time the working of creatures was not showed but the working of our lord god in the creature for he is in the midpoint of all thing and all he doeth and i was certain he doeth no sin and here i saw verily that sin is no deed for in all this was not sin showed and i would no longer marvel in this but beheld our lord what he would show and thus as much as it might be for the time the rightfulness of god's working was showed to the soul rightfulness hath two fair properties it is right and it is full and so are all the works of our lord god thereto needeth neither the working of mercy nor grace for they be all rightful wherein faileth naught

Starting point is 00:55:31 But in another time he gave a showing for the beholding of sin nakedly, as I shall tell, where he useth working of mercy and grace. And this vision was showed, to mine understanding, for that our Lord would have the soul turned truly unto the beholding of him, and generally of all his works, for they are full good, and all his doings are easy and sweet, and to great ease bringing the soul that is turned from the beholding of the blind deeming of man unto the fair sweet deeming of our Lord God.

Starting point is 00:56:11 For a man beholdeth some deeds well done and some deeds evil, but our Lord beholdeth them not so, for as all that hath being in nature is of godly making, so all that is done in property of God's doing, for it is easy to understand that the best deed is well done and so well as the best deed is done the highest so well is the least deed done and all thing in its property and in the order that our god hath ordained it to from without beginning for there is no doer but he. I saw full surely that he changeth never his purpose in no manner of thing nor never shall without end, for there was no thing unknown to him in his rightful ordinance from without beginning,

Starting point is 00:57:08 and therefore all thing was set in order ere anything was made, as it should stand without end, and no manner of thing shall, shall, fail of that point, for he made all things in fullness of goodness, and therefore the blessed Trinity is ever full pleased in all his works. And all this showed me he fully blissfully, signifying thus, see, I am God, see I am in all thing, see, I do all thing, see, I lift never mine hands off my works, nor ever shall, without end. See, I lead all thing to the end I ordained it to from without beginning, by the same might, wisdom, and love whereby I made it. How should anything be amiss? Thus mightily, wisely and lovingly, was the soul examined in this vision. Then saw I

Starting point is 00:58:13 soothly that me behoved of need to assent with great reverence enjoying in God. End of Chapter 11. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 12 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The fourth revelation. Chapter 12

Starting point is 00:58:53 The dear worthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, As verily as it is most precious, So verily it is most plenteous. And after this I saw, beholding, The body plentiously bleeding in seeming of the scourging, As thus, The fair skin was broken full deep Into the tender flesh,

Starting point is 00:59:20 With sharp smiting all about the sweet, body. So plentiously the hot blood ran out that there was neither seen skin nor wound, but as it were all blood, and when it came where it should have fallen down, then it vanished. Notwithstanding the bleeding continued a while, till it might be seen and considered. And this was so plenteous to my sight that me thought, if it had been so in kind and in substance, at that time it should have made the bed all one blood and have passed over about. And then came to my mind that God hath made waters plenteous in earth to our service, and to our bodily ease, for tender love that he hath to us,

Starting point is 01:00:13 and yet liketh him better that we take full homely his blessed blood to washers of sin, for there is no water that is made that he hath to us. he liketh so well to give us, for it is most plenteous as it is most precious, and that by the virtue of his blessed Godhead, and it is of our kind, and all blissfully belongeth to us by the virtue of his precious love. The dear worthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, as verily as it is most precious, so verily it is most plentious. behold and see the precious plenty of his dear worthy blood descended down into hell and burst her bands

Starting point is 01:01:02 and delivered all that were there which belonged to the court of heaven the precious plenty of his dear worthy blood overfloweth all earth and is ready to wash all creatures of sin which be of good will have been and shall be the precious plenty of his dear worthy blood ascended up into heaven to the blessed body of our Lord Jesus Christ and there is in him bleeding and praying for us to the Father and is and shall be as long as it needeth and ever shall be as long as it needeth and evermore it floweth in all heavens enjoying the salvation of all mankind that are there and shall be fulfilling the number that faileth. End of Chapter 12. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 13 of Revelations of Divine Love

Starting point is 01:02:13 Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The Fifth Revelation. Chapter 13 The enemy is overcome by the blessed passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. And after this, ere God showed any words, He suffered for me a convenient time to give heed unto him And all that I had seen,

Starting point is 01:02:46 And all intellect that was therein, As the simplicity of the soul might take it. Then he, without voice and opening of voice, and opening of lips, formed in my soul these words. Herewith is the fiend overcome. These words, said our Lord, meaning his blessed passion as he showed it afore. On this showed our Lord that the passion of him is the overcoming of the fiend. God showed that the fiend hath now the same malice that he had afore the incarnation, and as sore he travaileth, and as continually he seeth that all souls of salvation escape him,

Starting point is 01:03:31 worshipfully by the virtue of Christ's precious passion. And that is his sorrow, and full evil is he ashamed. For all that God suffereth him to do turneth for us to joy, and for him to shame and woe. And he hath as much sorrow when God giveth him leave to work, work, as when he worketh not, and that is for that he may never do as ill as he would, for his might is all taken into God's hand. But in God there may be no wrath as to my sight, for our good Lord endlessly hath regard to his own worship and to the prophet of all that shall be saved.

Starting point is 01:04:17 With might and right he withstandeth the reproved, the witch of maledies, and wickedness busy them to contrive and to do against God's will. Also I saw our Lord scorn his malice and set at naught his un might, and he willeth that we do so. For this sight I laughed mightily, and that made them to laugh that were about me, and their laughing was a pleasure to me. I thought that I would that all mine even Christians had seen as I saw, and then would they all they all laugh with me. But I saw not Christ laugh, for I understood that we may laugh in comforting of ourselves, and joying in God, for that the devil is overcome. And when I saw him scorn his malice, it was by leading of mine understanding into our Lord. That is to say, it was an inward showing of

Starting point is 01:05:15 verity, without changing of look. For, as to my sight, it is a worshipful, property of gods that he is ever the same. And after this I fell into a graveness and said, I see three things, I see game, scorn, and earnest. I see a game in that the fiend is overcome. I see scorn, in that God scorneth him, and he shall be scorned. And I see earnest, in that he is overcome by the blissful passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ that was done in full earnest and with sober travail. When I said he is scorned, I meant that God scorneth him, that is to say, because he seeth him now, as he shall do without end. For in this word God showed me that the fiend is condemned, and this meant I when I said, he shall be scorned. And this meant I when I said,

Starting point is 01:06:19 he shall be scorned. He shall be scorned at doomsday, generally of all that shall be saved, to whose consolation he hath great ill will. For then he shall see that all the woe and tribulation that he hath done to them shall be turned to increase of their joy without end, and all the pain and tribulation that he would have brought them to shall endlessly go with him to hell. End of Chapter 13. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 14 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes

Starting point is 01:07:09 Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The sixth revelation. Chapter 14 The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in heaven and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time. After this our Lord God said, I thank thee for thy travail and especially for thy youth. And in this showing mine understanding was lifted up into heaven,

Starting point is 01:07:44 where I saw our Lord as a Lord in his own house, which hath called all his dear worthy servants and friends to a stately feast. Then I saw the Lord take no place in his own house, but I saw him royally reign in his house, fulfilling it with joy and mirth, himself endlessly to gladden and to solace his dear worthy friends, full homely and full courteously, with marvellous melody of endless love, in his own fair blessed countenance, which glorious countenance of the Godhead fulfilleth the heavens with joy and bliss. God showed three degrees of bliss that every soul shall have in heaven, that willingly hath served God in any degree on earth. The first is the worshipful thanks of our Lord God

Starting point is 01:08:42 that he shall receive when he is delivered of pain. This thanking is so high and so worshipful that the soul thinketh that filleth him, though there were no more. For me thought that all the pain and travail that might be suffered by all living men might not deserve the worshipful thanks that one man shall have, that willingly hath served God. The second is that all the blessed creatures that are in heaven shall see that worshipful thanking, and he maketh his service known to all that are in heaven.

Starting point is 01:09:20 heaven. And here this example was showed, a king, if he thank his servants, it is a great worship to them, and if he maketh it known to all the realm, then is the worship greatly increased. The third is, that as new and as gladdening as it is received in that time, right so shall it last without end. And I saw that homely and sweetly was this showed, and that the age of every man shall be made known in heaven, and he shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time, and especially the age of them that willingly and freely offer their youth unto God, passingly is rewarded and wonderfully is thanked. For I saw that, wheneer what time a man or woman is truly turned to God, for one day's service

Starting point is 01:10:19 and for his endless will he shall have all these three decrees of bliss. And the more the loving soul seeth this courtesy of God, the lea for he is to serve him all the days of his life. End of chapter 14.

Starting point is 01:10:39 This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 15 of Revelations of Divine Love. Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. revelations of divine love by julian of norwich the seventh revelation chapter fifteen it is not god's will that we follow the feeling of pains in sorrow and mourning for them and after this he showed a sovereign ghostly pleasance in my soul i was fulfilled with the everlasting sureness mightily sustained without any painful dread This feeling was so glad and so ghostly that I was in all peace and in rest, that there was nothing in earth that should have grieved me. This lasted but a while, and I was turned and left to myself in heaviness

Starting point is 01:11:44 and weariness of my life, and irksomeness of myself, that scarcely I could have patience to live. There was no comfort nor none ease to me but faith, and charity, and these I had in truth, but little in feeling. And anon after this, our blessed Lord gave me again the comfort and the rest in soul, in satisfying and sureness so blissful and so mighty that no dread, no sorrow, no pain bodily that might be suffered should have distressed me. And then the pain showed again to my feeling, And then the joy and the pleasing, and now that one, and now the other, diverse times, I suppose about twenty times, and in the time of joy I might have said with St. Paul,

Starting point is 01:12:42 nothing shall dispart me from the charity of Christ, and in the pain I might have said with Peter, Lord, save me, I perish. This vision was showed me, according to mine understanding, For that it is speedful to some souls to feel on this wise, sometime to be in comfort, and some time to fail, and to be left to themselves. God willeth that we know that he keepeth us, even alike secure in woe and in wheel,

Starting point is 01:13:16 and for profit of man's soul, a man is sometime left to himself, although sin is not always the cause, for in this time I sinned not where, Therefore I should be left to myself, for it was so sudden. Also I deserve not to have this blessed feeling, but freely our Lord giveth when he will, and suffereth us to be in woe some time, and both is one love. For it is God's will that we hold us in comfort with all our might, for bliss is lasting without end and pain is passing and shall be brought to naught for them that shall be saved

Starting point is 01:13:59 and therefore it is not God's will that we follow the feelings of pain in sorrow and mourning for them but that we suddenly pass over and hold us in endless enjoyment end of chapter 15 this recording is in the public domain Chapter 16 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 8th Revelation, Chapter 16, a part of his passion. After this, Christ showed a part of his passion, near his dying.

Starting point is 01:14:55 I saw his soul. sweet face as it were dry and bloodless with pale dying, and later more pale, dead, languoring, and then turned more dead unto blue, and then more brown blue, as the flesh turned more deeply dead, for his passion showed to me most specially in his blessed face, and chiefly in his lips. There I saw these four colours, though it were afore fresh, ruddy and pleasing to my sight. This was a pitiful change to see this deep dying, and also the inward moisture clotted and dried to my sight,

Starting point is 01:15:40 and the sweet body was brown and black, all turned out of fair, life-like colour of itself, unto dry dying. For that same time that our Lord and Blessed Saviour died upon the rude, It was a dry, hard wind, and wondrous cold as to my sight. And what time all the precious blood was bled out of the sweet body that might pass therefrom, yet there dwelt a moisture in the sweet flesh of Christ as it was showed. Bloodlessness and pain dried within,

Starting point is 01:16:19 and blowing of wind and cold coming from without, met together in the sweet body of Christ. And these four, twain without and twain within, dried the flesh of Christ by process of time. And though this pain was bitter and sharp, it was full long-lasting as to my sight, and painfully dried up all the lively spirits of Christ's flesh. Thus I saw the sweet flesh dry in seeming by part after part with marvellous pains, and as long as any spirit had life in Christ's flesh, so long suffered he pain. This long pining seemed to me as if he had been seven nights dead,

Starting point is 01:17:10 dying at the point of outpassing away, suffering the last pain. And when I said it seemed to me as if he had been seven nights dead, it meaneth that the sweet body was so discoloured, so dry, so shorth. drunken, so deathly and so piteous, as if he had been seven night dead, continually dying. And methought the drying of Christ's flesh was the most pain and the last of his passion. End of Chapter 16. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 17 of Revelations of Divine Love.

Starting point is 01:18:01 Read for Librivox.org by David. Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The eighth revelation, chapter 17. How might any pain be more to me than to see him that is all my life, all my bliss, and all my joy suffer? And in this dying was brought to my mind the words of Christ, I thirst. For I saw in Christ a double thirst, one bodily, another spiritual, the which I shall speak of in the 31st chapter. For this word was showed for the bodily thirst, the which I understood was caused by failing of moisture, for the blessed flesh and bones was left all alone without blood and moisture, The blessed body

Starting point is 01:19:02 Dried alone, Long time, With ringing of the nails And weight of the body. For I understood that For tenderness of the sweet hands And of the sweet feet, By the greatness, hardness,

Starting point is 01:19:16 And grievousness of the nails, The wounds waxed wide And the body sagged, For weight by long time hanging. And therefore was piercing And therefore was piercing and pressing of the head. head and binding of the crown all baked with dry blood, and the sweet hair clinging, and the dry flesh to the thorns, and the thorns to the flesh drying, and in the beginning while the flesh

Starting point is 01:19:45 was fresh and bleeding, the continual sitting of the thorns made the wounds wide, and furthermore I saw that the sweet skin and the tender flesh with the hair and the blood was all raised, and loosed about from the bone, with the thorns where through it were rent in many pieces, as a cloth that were sagging, as if it would hastily have fallen off for heaviness and looseness, while it had natural moisture. And that was great sorrow and dread to me, for me thought I would not for my life have seen it fall. How it was done I saw not, but understood it was with the sharp thorns and the violent and grievous setting on of the garland of thorns, unsparingly and without pity. This continued a while, and soon it began to change,

Starting point is 01:20:43 and I beheld and marvelled how it might be, and then I saw it was because it began to dry, and stint a part of the weight, and set about the garland, and thus it encircled, all about, as it were garland upon garland, the garland of the thorns was dyed with the blood, and that other garland of blood and the head all was one colour, as clotted blood when it is dry. The skin of the flesh that showed, of the face and of the body, was small rippled with tanned color, like a dry board when it is aged, and the face more brown than the body. I saw four manner of dryings. The first was bloodlessness. The second was pain following after. The third, hanging up in the air as men hang a cloth to dry. The fourth, that the bodily kind,

Starting point is 01:21:46 asked liquid, and there was no manner of comfort ministered to dry. The fourth, that the bodily kind, asked liquid, and there was no manner of comfort ministered to him in all his woe and distress. Ah, hard and grievous was his pain, but much more hard and grievous it was when the moisture failed and began to dry thus, shriveling. These were the pains that showed in the blessed head, the first wrought to the drying while it had moisture, and that other, slow, with shrinking, drying, and with blowing of the wind from without, that dried and pained him with cold more than mine heart can think. And other pains, for which pains I saw that all is too little that I can say, for it may not be told.

Starting point is 01:22:37 The witch showing of Christ's pains filled me full of pain, for I wist well he suffered but once, but this was as if he would show it me and fill me with mind as I had afore desired. And in all this time of Christ's pains, I felt no pain but for Christ's pains. Then thought me, I knew but little what pain it was that I asked,

Starting point is 01:23:05 and as a wretch repented me, thinking, If I had wist what it had been, Loathe me had been to have prayed it. For me thought it passed bodily death, my pains. I thought, is any pain like this? And I was answered in my reason, Hell is another pain, for there is despair. But of all pains that lead to salvation,

Starting point is 01:23:34 this is the most pain, to see thy Lord suffer. How might any pain be more to me than to see him that is all my life, all my bliss, and all my joy suffer? Here felt I soothed fastly that I loved Christ so much above myself that there was no pain that might be suffered, like to that sorrow that I had to see him in pain. End of Chapter 17. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 18 of Revelations of Divine Love

Starting point is 01:24:22 Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 8th Revelation Chapter 18 When He was in pain, we were in pain. Here I saw a part of the compassion of our lady, St. Mary, for Christ and she were so one, in love, that the greatness of her loving was cause of the greatness of her pain.

Starting point is 01:24:59 For in this showing, I saw a substance of nature's love, continued by grace, that creatures have to him, which kind love was most fully showed in his sweet mother and overpassing. For so much as she loved him more than all other, her pains passed all other. for ever the higher the mightier the sweeter that the love be the more sorrow it is to the lover to see that body in pain that is loved and all his disciples and all his true lovers suffered pains more than their own bodily dying for i am sure by mine own feeling that the least of them loved him so far above himself that it passeth all that i can say Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding, for when he was in pain, we were in pain. And all creatures that might suffer pain suffered with him,

Starting point is 01:26:11 that is to say, all creatures that God hath made to our service. The firmament, the earth, failed for sorrow in their nature in the time of Christ's dying, for it belongeth naturally to their property to know him for their god in whom all their virtue standeth when he failed then behoved it needs to them because of kindness between them to fail with him as much as they might for sorrow of his pains and thus they that were his friends suffered pain for love and generally all that is to say they that knew him not suffered for failing of all manner of comfort save the mighty privy keeping of god i speak of two manner of folk as they may be understood by two persons the one was pilate the other was st dionysi of france which was at that time a pain for when he saw wondrous and marvellous sorrows and dreads that befell in that time he said either the world is now at an end or he that is maker of kind suffereth wherefore he did write on an altar this is the altar of unknown god god that of his goodness maketh the planets and the elements to work of kind to the blessed man and the cursed in that time

Starting point is 01:27:48 made withdrawing of it from both, wherefore it was that they that knew him not were in sorrow in that time. Thus was our Lord Jesus made naught for us, and all we stand in this manner made naught with him, and shall do till we come to his bliss, as I shall tell after. End of Chapter 18.

Starting point is 01:28:17 This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 19, of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The eighth Revelation, chapter 19. Thus was I learned to choose Jesus for my heaven, whom I saw only in pain at that time. In this time I would have looked up from the cross, but I durst not, for I wist well that while I beheld in the cross I was surely safe.

Starting point is 01:29:05 Therefore I would not assent to put my soul in peril, for away from the cross was no sureness for frighting of fiends. Then had I a proffer in my reason, as if it had been friendly said to me, Look up to heaven to his father. And then saw I well with the faith that I felt that there was nothing betwixt the cross and heaven that might have harmed me. Either me behoved to look up or else to answer.

Starting point is 01:29:38 I answered inwardly with all the might of my soul and said, Nay, I may not, for thou art my heaven. This I said for that I would not, for I would leifer have been in that pain till doomsday than to come to heaven otherwise than by him. for I wist well that he that bound me so sore He should unbind me when that he would Thus was I learned to choose Jesus to my heaven

Starting point is 01:30:10 Whom I saw only in pain at that time Me liked no other heaven than Jesus Which shall be my bliss when I come there And this hath ever been a comfort to me That I chose Jesus to my heaven by His grace in all this time of passion and sorrow, and that hath been a learning to me that I should ever more do so, choose only Jesus to my heaven in will and woe.

Starting point is 01:30:42 And though I, as a wretched creature, had repented me, I said afore, if I had wist what pain it would be, I had been loath to have prayed, here saw I truly that it was reluctance and frailty of the flesh, without assent of the soul, to which God assigneth no blame. Repenting and willing choice be two contraries which I felt both in one at that time, and these be of our two parts, the one outward, the other inward. The outward part is our deadly fleshhood, which is now in pain and woe, and shall be in this life,

Starting point is 01:31:23 whereof I felt much in this time, and that part it was that repented. The inward part is an high, blissful life, which is all in peace and in love, and this was more inwardly felt, and this part is that in which mightily, wisely, and with steadfast will, I chose Jesus to my heaven. And in this I saw verily that the inward part, part is master and sovereign to the outward, and doth not charge itself with, nor take heed to, the will of that. But all the intent and will is set to be woned unto our Lord Jesus, that the outward part should draw the inward to ascent was not showed to me, but that the inward

Starting point is 01:32:17 draweth the outward by grace, and both shall be woned in bliss without end by the virtue of Christ, this was showed. End of chapter 19. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 20 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 8th.5.com. revelation chapter twenty for every man's sin that shall be saved he suffered and every man's sorrow and desolation he saw and sorrowed for kinship and love and thus i saw our lord jesus languoring long time for the oneing with the godhead gave strength to the manhood for love to suffer more than all men might suffer I mean not only more pain than all men might suffer,

Starting point is 01:33:32 but also that he suffered more pain than all men of salvation that ever were from the first beginning and to the last day might tell or fully think, having regard to the worthiness of the highest worshipful king and the shameful, despised, painful death. For he that is highest and worthiest was most fully men, naught and most utterly despised, for the highest point that may be seen in the passion is to think and know what he is that suffered. And in this showing he brought in part to mind the height and nobleness of the glorious Godhead, and therewith the preciousness and the tenderness of the

Starting point is 01:34:22 blessed body which be together united, and also the loathness that is in our kind to suffer pain, for as much as he was most tender and pure, right so he was most strong and mighty to suffer. And for every man's sin that shall be saved, he suffered, and every man's sorrow and desolation he saw, and sorrowed for kindness and love. For inasmuch as our lady sorrowed for his pains, in so much he suffered sorrow for her sorrow, and more in as greatly as the sweet manhood of him was worthier in kind. For as long as he was passable, he suffered for us and sorrowed for us, and now he is uprisen, and no more passable, yet he suffereth with us. And I, beholding all this by his grace, saw that the love of him was so strong which he hath to our soul, that willingly

Starting point is 01:35:31 he chose it with great desire, and mildly he suffered it with well-pleasing. For the soul that beholdeth it thus, when it is touched by grace, it shall verily see that the pains of Christ's passion pass all pains, all pains, that is to say, which shall be turned into everlasting, O'er passing joys by the virtue of Christ's passion. End of Chapter 20. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 21 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich.

Starting point is 01:36:28 The 8th Revelation. Chapter 21. now with him in his pains and his passion, dying. We shall be with him in heaven. Through learning in this little pain that we suffer here, we shall have an high, endless knowledge of God, which we could never have without that. It is God's will, as to mine understanding, that we have three manners of beholding his blessed passion. The first is the hard pain that he suffered, beholding it with contrition and compassion. And that showed our Lord in this time,

Starting point is 01:37:11 and gave me strength and grace to see it. And I looked for the departing with all my might, and thought to have seen the body all dead, but I saw him not so, and right in the same time that me thought by the seeming the life might no longer last, and the showing of the end behoved needs to be. Suddenly, I beholding in the same cross, he changed the look of his blessed countenance. The changing of his blessed countenance changed mine,

Starting point is 01:37:47 and I was as glad and merry as it was possible. Then brought our Lord merrily to my mind, where is now any point of the pain or of thy grief? And I was full merry. I understood that we be now in our Lord's meaning, in his cross with him, in his pains, and his passion, dying, and we, willingly abiding in the same cross with his help and his grace unto the last point, suddenly he shall change his cheer to us, and we shall be with him in heaven. betwixt that one and that other shall be no time, and then shall all be brought to joy. And thus said he in this showing, where is now any point of thy pain or thy grief, and we shall be full blessed?

Starting point is 01:38:45 And here saw I verily that if he showed now to us his blissful cheer, there is no pain in earth or in other place that should aggrieve us. But all things should be to us joy and bliss. But because he showeth to us time of his passion, as he bear it in this life and his cross, therefore we are in distress and travail with him, as our frailty asketh. And the cause why he suffereth it to be so,

Starting point is 01:39:19 is for that he will of his goodness make us the higher with him in his bliss. And for this little pain that we suffer here, we shall have an high, endless knowing in God, which we could never have without that. And the harder our pains have been with him in his cross, the more shall our worship be with him in his kingdom. End of chapter 21. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 01:39:58 Chapter 22 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The Ninth Revelation, Chapter 22. The love that made him to suffer passeth so far all his pains as heaven is above earth. Then said our good Lord Jesus Christ,

Starting point is 01:40:29 Art thou well pleased that I suffer for thee? I said, yea, good Lord, I thank thee. Yea, good Lord, blessed mayst thou be. Then said Jesus, our kind Lord, If thou art pleased, I am pleased. It is a joy, a bliss, an endless satisfying to me that ever suffered I passion for thee.

Starting point is 01:40:54 And if I might suffer more, I would suffer more. In this feeling my understanding was lifted up into heaven, and there I saw three heavens, of which sight I marvelled greatly, and though I see three heavens, and all in the blessed manhood of Christ, none is more, none is less,

Starting point is 01:41:17 none is higher, none is lower, but they are even like in bliss. For the first heaven, Christ showed me, his father, in no bodily likeness but in his property and in his working. That is to say, I saw in Christ that the Father is. The working of the Father is this, that He giveth mead to His Son Jesus Christ. This gift and this mead is so blissful to Jesus that his father might have given him no meed that might have pleased him better. The first heaven, that is the pleasing of the Father,

Starting point is 01:42:00 showed to me as one heaven, and it was blissful, for he is full pleased with all the deeds that Jesus hath done about our salvation. Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father, we be his bliss, we be his maid, we be his worship, we be his crown.

Starting point is 01:42:23 And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding that we be his crown. This that I say is so great bliss to Jesus that he setteth at naught all his travail, and his hard passion, and his cruel and shameful death. And in these words, If that I might suffer more, I would suffer more, I saw in truth that often as he might die,

Starting point is 01:42:51 So often he would, and love should never let him have rest till he had done it. And I beheld with great diligence, for to learn how often he would die if he might, and verily the number passed mine understanding and my wits, so far that my reason might not, nor could comprehend it. And when he had thus oft died, or should, yet he would set it at naught for love,

Starting point is 01:43:20 for all seemeth him but little in regard of his love. For though the sweet manhood of Christ might suffer but once, the goodness in him may never cease of proffer. Every day he is ready to the same if it might be. For if he said he would for my love make new heavens and new earth, it were but little in comparison. For this might be done every day if he would without any travail. but to die for my love so often that the number passeth creatures reason it is the highest

Starting point is 01:43:56 proffer that our Lord God might make to man's soul as to my sight. Then meaneth he thus, How should it not be that I should not do for thy love all that I might of deeds which grieve me not, sith I would for thy love die so often, having no regard to my hard pains? And here saw I, for the second beholding in this blessed passion, The love that made him to suffer, Passeth as far all his pains as heaven is above earth. For the pains was a noble, worshipful deed Done in a time by the working of love,

Starting point is 01:44:37 But love was without beginning, Is and shall be without ending. For which love he said full sweetly these words, If I might suffer more, I would suffer more. He said not if it were needful to suffer more, for though it were not needful, if he might suffer more, he would. This deed, and this work about our salvation, was ordained as well as God might ordain it.

Starting point is 01:45:07 And here I saw a full bliss in Christ, for his bliss should not have been full, if it might any better have been done, End of Chapter 22. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 23 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 9th Revelation, Chapter 23, The Glad Giver. All the Trinity wrought in the Passion of Jesus Christ.

Starting point is 01:45:53 And in these three words it is a joy, a bliss, an endless satisfying to me, were showed three heavens as thus. For the joy I understood the pleasure of the Father, and for the bliss, the worship of the Son, and for the endless satisfying the Holy Ghost. The Father is pleased, the Son is worshipped, the Holy Ghost is satisfied, the Holy Ghost is satisfied. And here saw I, for the third beholding, in his blissful passion. That is to say, the joy and the bliss that make him to be well satisfied in it. For our courteous lord showed his passion to me in five manners, of which the first is the bleeding of the head. The second is discolouring of his face. The third is the plenteous bleeding of the body, in seeming as from

Starting point is 01:46:54 the scourging. The fourth is the deep dying. These four are aforetold for the pains of the passion, and the fifth is this that was showed for the joy and the bliss of the passion. For it is God's will that we have true enjoying with him in our salvation, and therein he willeth that we be mightily comforted and strengthened, and thus willeth he that merrily with his grace, and thus willeth he that merrily with his grace our soul be occupied, for we are his bliss, for in us he enjoyeth without end, and so shall we in him with his grace. And all that he hath done for us, and doeth, and ever shall, was never cost nor charged to him, nor might be, but only that which he did in our manhood, beginning at the sweet incarnation, and lasting to the blessed uprise on Easter morrow,

Starting point is 01:47:55 so long due at the cost and the charge about our redemption indeed of the which deed he enjoyeth endlessly as it is aforesaid jesus willeth that we take heed to the bliss that is in the blessed trinity because of our salvation and that we desire to have as much spiritual enjoying with his grace as it is aforesaid That is to say that the enjoying of our salvation be as like to the joy that Christ has of our salvation as it may be while we are here. All the Trinity wrought in the passion of Christ, ministering abundance of virtues and plenty of grace to us by him. But only the maiden's son suffered, whereof all the blessed Trinity endlessly enjoyeth. All this was showed me in these words, art thou well pleased? And by that other word that Christ said, If thou art pleased, then am I pleased.

Starting point is 01:49:03 As if he said, it is joy and satisfying enough to me, And I ask naught else of thee for my travail, But that I might well please thee. And in this he brought to mind the property of a glad giver. A glad giver taketh but little heed of the thing that he giveth, but all his desire and all his intent is to please him and solace him to whom he giveth it. And if the receiver take the gift highly and thankfully, then the courteous giver setteth at naught all his cost and all his travail.

Starting point is 01:49:43 for joy and delight that he hath pleased and solaced him that he loveth. Plentiously and fully was this showed. Think also wisely of the greatness of this word ever, for in it was showed an high knowing of love that he hath in our salvation, with manifold joys that follow of the passion of Christ. One is that he rejoiceth that he hath done it indeed, and he shall no more suffer, another that he brought us from endless pains of hell. End of Chapter 23. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 01:50:31 Chapter 24 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 10th Revelation, Chapter 24. Our Lord looked unto his wounded side and beheld, rejoicing. Lo, how I love thee. Then with a glad cheer, our Lord looked unto his side and beheld rejoicing. With his sweet looking he led forth the understanding of his creature by the same wound into his side within. And then he showed a fair, delectable place, and large enough for all,

Starting point is 01:51:20 mankind that shall be saved, to rest in peace and in love. And therewith he brought to mind his dear worthy blood and precious water, which he let pour all out for love. And with the sweet beholding, he showed his blessed heart even cloven in two. And with this sweet enjoying, he showed unto mine understanding, in part, the blessed Godhead, stirring then the blessed Godhead, stirring then the poor soul to understand, as it may be said, that is to think on, the endless love that was without beginning, and is, and shall be ever. And with this our good Lord said full blissfully, lo how I loved thee. As if he had said, My darling, behold and see thy lord, thy God that is thy maker, and thine endless joy. see what satisfying and bliss I have in thy salvation, and for my love rejoice thou with me.

Starting point is 01:52:24 And also for more understanding this blessed word was said, Lo, how I loved thee. Behold and see that I loved thee so much ere I died for thee, that I would die for thee, and now I have died for thee, and suffered willingly that which I may, And now is all my bitter pain and all my hard travail turned to endless joy and bliss to me and to thee. How should it now be that thou shouldst anything pray that pleaseth me, but that I should full gladly grant it thee? For my pleasing is thy holiness and thine endless joy and bliss with me.

Starting point is 01:53:10 This is the understanding, simply as I can say it, of this. blessed word, lo, how I loved thee. This showed our good Lord, for to make us glad and merry. End of Chapter 24. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 25 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. the eleventh revelation chapter twenty five i wot well that thou wouldst see my blessed mother wilt thou see in her how thou art loved and with this same cheer 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 it was as if he had said i wot well that thou wouldst see my blessed mother for after myself she is the highest joy that i might show thee and much pleasance and worship to me

Starting point is 01:54:36 and most she is desired to be seen of my blessed creatures and for the high marvellous singular love that he hath to this sweet maiden his blessed mother our lady st mary He showed her highly rejoicing, as by the meaning of these sweet words, as if he said, "'Wilt thou see how I love her, that thou mightest joy with me in the love that I have in her, and she in me?' And also, unto more understanding this sweet word, Our Lord speaketh to all mankind that shall be saved, as it were all to one person, as if he said, Wilt thou see in her

Starting point is 01:55:20 How thou art loved? For thy love I made her so high, So noble and so worthy, And this pleaseth me, And so will I that it doeth thee. For after himself, She is the most blissful sight. But hereof am I not learned

Starting point is 01:55:39 To long to see her bodily presence While I am here, But the virtues of her blessed soul, her truth, her wisdom, her charity, whereby I may learn to know myself and reverently dread my God. And when our good Lord had showed this and said this word, Wilt thou see her? I answered and said, yea, good Lord, I thank thee, yea good Lord, if it be thy will. Oftentimes I prayed this, and I weaned to have seen her in bodily presence,

Starting point is 01:56:14 but I saw her not so. And Jesus in that word showed me ghostly sight of her, right as I had seen her afore little and simple, so he showed her then high and noble and glorious, and pleasing to him above all creatures. And he willeth that it be known, that so all those that please them in him should please them in her, and in the pleasance that he hath in her,

Starting point is 01:56:43 and she in him. And to more understanding he showed this example. As if a man love a creature singularly above all creatures, he willeth to make all creatures to love and to have pleasance in that creature that he loveth so greatly. And in this word that Jesus said, wilt thou see her? Me thought it was the most pleasing word that he might have given me of her. With that ghostly showly shirder, that he gave me of her. For our Lord showed me nothing in special but our Lady St. Mary, and her he showed three times. The first was as she was with child. The second was as she was in her sorrows under the cross. The third is as she is now, in pleasing, worship and joy. End of Chapter 25. This recording is in the post.

Starting point is 01:57:45 public domain. Chapter 26 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 12th Revelation, Chapter 26. It is I, it is I. And after this, our Lord showed himself more glorified as to my sight than I saw him before, in the showing wherein I was learned that our soul shall never have rest till it cometh to him, knowing that he is fullness of joy, homely and courteous, blissful and very life. Our Lord Jesus oftentimes said, I it am, I it am, I it am that is highest, I it am that thou lovest, I it am that thou enjoyest, I it am that thou servest, I it am that thou longest for, I it am that thou desirest, I it am that thou meanest, I it am that is all,

Starting point is 01:59:06 I it am that holy church preacheth and teacheth thee, I it am that showed me here to thee. The number of the words passeth my wish. and all my understanding and all my powers, and they are the highest as to my sight. For therein is comprehended, I cannot tell, but the joy that I saw in the showing of them passeth all that heart may wish for and soul may desire. Therefore the words be not declared here, but every man after the grace that God giveth him in understanding and loving receive them in our Lord's meaning. End of Chapter 26.

Starting point is 01:59:52 This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 27 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 13th Revelation. Chapter 27. Often I wondered why, by the great foreseeing wisdom of God, the beginning of sin was not hindered,

Starting point is 02:00:24 for then, me thought, all should have been well. Sin is behovable, playeth a needful part, but all shall be well. After this the Lord brought to my mind the longing that I had to him afore, and I saw that nothing letted me but sin, and so I looked generally upon us all, and me thought, If sin had not been, we should all have been clean and like to our Lord, as he made us. And thus in my folly, afore this time often I wondered why, by the great

Starting point is 02:01:02 foreseeing wisdom of God, the beginning of sin was not letted. For then, me thought, all should have been well. This stirring of the mind was much to be forsaken, but nevertheless mourning and sorrow I made therefore without reason and discretion. But Jesus, who in this vision informed me of all that is needful to me, answered by this word and said, It behoved that there should be sin, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind generally all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting that he bear for us in this life,

Starting point is 02:01:54 his dying, and all the pains and passions of all his creatures ghostly and bodily, for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our master Jesus till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh, and of all our inward affections which are not very good. And the beholding of this, with all pains that ever were or ever shall be, and with all these I understand the passion of Christ for most pain and overpassing. All this was showed in a touch and quickly passed over into comfort, for our good Lord would not that the soul were afeard of this terrible sight. But I saw not sin, for I believe it hath no manner of substance nor no part of being,

Starting point is 02:02:52 nor could it be known but by the pain it is cause of. And thus pain, it is something as to my sight for a time, for it purgeth, and maketh us to know ourselves and to ask mercy, for the passion of our Lord is comfort to us against all this, and so is his blessed will. And for the tender love that our good Lord hath to all that shall be saved, he comforteth readily and sweetly, signifying thus. It is sooth that sin is cause of all this pain,

Starting point is 02:03:29 but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. These words were said full tenderly, showing no manner of blame to me nor to any that shall be saved. Then were it a great unkindness to blame or wonder on God for my sin, since he blameth not me for sin. And in these words I saw a marvellous high mystery hid in God, which mystery he shall openly make known to us in heaven,

Starting point is 02:04:04 in which knowing we shall verily see the cause why he suffered sin to come, in which sight we shall endlessly joy in our Lord God. End of chapter 27. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 28 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 13th Revelation, Chapter 28.

Starting point is 02:04:44 Each brotherly compassion that man hath on his fellow Christians with charity, it is Christ in him. Thus I saw how Christ hath compassion on us, for the cause of sin, and right as I was afore in the showing of the passion of Christ, fulfilled with pain and compassion, like so in this sight I was fulfilled in part, with compassion of all mine even Christians, for that well, well-beloved people that shall be saved. For God's servants, holy church, shall be shaken in sorrow and anguish, tribulation in this world, as men shake a cloth in the wind. And as to this our Lord answered in this manner,

Starting point is 02:05:35 A great thing shall I make hereof in heaven, of endless worship, and everlasting joys. Yea, so far forth I saw that our Lord joyeth of the tribulations of his servants, with Ruth and compassion, on each person that he loveth to his bliss for to bring them he layeth something that is no blame in his sight whereby they are blamed and despised in this world scorned mocked and outcasted and this he doeth for to hinder the harm that they should take from the pomp and the vain glory of this wretched life and make their way ready to come to heaven and upraise them in his bliss ever everlasting. For he saith, I shall wholly break you of your vain affections and your vicious pride, and after that I shall together gather you, and make you mild and meek, clean and holy, by wanting to me. And then I saw that each kind compassion that man hath on his even Christians with charity, it is Christ in him.

Starting point is 02:06:48 That same gnaughting that was showed in his passion, it was showed again here in this compassion, wherein were two manner of understandings in our Lord's meaning. The one was the bliss that we are brought to, wherein he willeth that we rejoice. The other is for comfort in our pain, for he willeth that we perceive that it shall all be turned to worship and profit by virtue of his love. passion, that we perceive that we suffer not alone but with him, and see him to be our ground, and that we see his pains and his norting passeth so far all that we may suffer, that it may not be fully thought. The beholding of this will save us from murmuring and

Starting point is 02:07:40 despair in the feeling of our pains, and if we see soothly that our sin deserved it, yet his love excuseth us, and of his great courtesy he doeth away all our blame, and beholdeth us with Ruth and pity, as children, innocent, and unloatful. End of Chapter 28. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 29 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich the 13th Revelation Chapter 29

Starting point is 02:08:30 How could all be well for the great harm that is come by sin to the creature But in this I stood beholding things general Troublessly and mourning Saying thus to our Lord in my meaning With full great dread Ah good Lord! How my God! How my all be well, for the great hurt that is come by sin to the creature. And here I desired as far as I

Starting point is 02:09:00 durst to have some more open declaring, wherewith I might be eased in this matter. And to this, our blessed Lord answered full meekly and with full lovely cheer, and showed that Adam's sin was the most harm that ever was done or ever shall be to the world's end, and also he showed that this sin is openly known in all Holy Church on earth. Furthermore, he taught that I should behold the glorious satisfaction, for this amends-making is more pleasing to God and more worshipful, without comparison, than ever was the sin of Adam harmful. Then signifieth our blessed Lord thus in his teaching,

Starting point is 02:09:47 that we should take heed to this, for since I have made well the most harm, then it is my will that thou know thereby that I shall make well all that is less. End of chapter 29. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 30 of Revelations of Divine Love. Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes.

Starting point is 02:10:22 Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 13th Revelation Chapter 30 Two parts of truth The part that is open Our Saviour and our salvation And the part that is hid And shot up from us

Starting point is 02:10:40 All beside our salvation He gave me understanding of two parts of truth The one part is our Saviour and our salvation This blessed part is open and clear And fair and bright and plenteous, for all mankind that is of good will and shall be is comprehended in this part. Here too are we bounden of God, and drawn and counselled, and taught inwardly by the Holy Ghost, and outwardly by Holy Church in the same grace.

Starting point is 02:11:18 In this willeth our Lord that we be occupied, joying in him, for he enjoyeth in us, the more plenteously that we take of this with reverence and meekness, the more thanks we earn of him and the more speed to ourselves, thus we may say enjoying our part of our Lord. The other part is hid and shut up from us, that is to say, all that is beside our salvation, for it is our Lord's privy counsel, and it belongeth to the royal lordship of God

Starting point is 02:11:55 to have his privy counsel in peace, and it belongeth to his servant for obedience and reverence not to learn wholly his counsel. Our Lord hath pity and compassion on us, for that some creatures make themselves so busy therein, and I am sure if we knew how much we should please him and ease ourselves by leaving it, we would. The saints that be in heaven, they will to know nothing but that which our Lord willeth to show them, and also their charity and their desire is ruled after the will of our Lord, and thus ought we to will, like to them.

Starting point is 02:12:37 Then shall we nothing will nor desire, but the will of our Lord, as they do, for we are all one in God's seeing. And here was I learned that we shall trust and rejoice only in our Saviour, blessed Jesus, for all things. End of Chapter 30. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 31 of Revelations of Divine Love,

Starting point is 02:13:13 read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 13th Revelation, Chapter 31. The spiritual thirst, which was in him from without beginning, his desire in him, as long as we be in need. drawing us up to his bliss. And thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably, I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well, and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well.

Starting point is 02:14:02 in that he saith i may i understand it for the father and in that he saith i can i understand it for the son and where he saith i will i understand it for the holy ghost and where he saith i shall i understand it for the unity of the blessed trinity three persons and one truth and where he saith thou shalt see thyself, I understand the oneing of all mankind that shall be saved unto the blessed Trinity. And in these five words God willeth we be enclosed in rest and in peace. Thus shall the spiritual thirst of Christ have an end, for this is the spiritual thirst of Christ, the love-longing that lasteth and ever shall, till we see that sight on doomsday. for we that shall be saved and shall be Christ's joy and his bliss some be yet here and some be to come and so shall some be unto that day

Starting point is 02:15:15 therefore this is his thirst and love-longing to have us altogether whole in him to his bliss as to my sight for we be not now as fully whole in him as we shall be then for we know in our faith, and also it was showed in all the revelations, that Christ Jesus is both God and man. And Anant the Godhead, he is himself highest bliss, and was from without beginning, and shall be without end, which endless bliss may never be heightened nor lowered in itself. For this was plentiously seen in every showing, and special. in the 12th, where he saith, I am that which is highest. And anent Christ's manhood, it is known in our faith, and also it was showed that he, with the virtue of Godhead, for love to bring us to his bliss, suffered pains and passions, and died. And these be the works

Starting point is 02:16:23 of Christ's manhood wherein he rejoiceth. And that showed he in the ninth revelation, where he say, it is a joy and bliss and endless pleasing to me that ever I suffered passion for thee. And this is the bliss of Christ's works, and thus he signifieth where he saith in that same showing, we be his bliss, we be his mead, we be his worship, we be his crown. For anent that Christ is our head, he is glorified and impassable. and anent his body, in which all his members are knit, he is not yet fully glorified, nor all impassable. Therefore the same desire and thirst that he had upon the cross,

Starting point is 02:17:14 which desire, longing and thirst as to my sight, was in him from without beginning, the same hath he yet, and shall have unto the time that the last soul that shall be saved is come up to his bliss. for as verily as there is a property in God of Ruth and pity, so verily there is a property in God of thirst and longing. And of the virtue of this longing in Christ we have to long again to him,

Starting point is 02:17:45 without which no soul cometh to heaven. And this property of longing and thirst cometh of the endless goodness of God, even as the property of pity cometh of his endless goodness, And though longing and pity Are two sundry properties, As to my sight, In this standeth the point of the spiritual thirst, Which is desire in him as long as we be in need,

Starting point is 02:18:13 drawing us up to his bliss. And all this was seen in the showing of compassion, for that shall cease on doomsday. Thus he hath Ruth and compassion on us, and he hath longing to have us, but his wisdom and his love suffereth not the end to come till the best time. End of Chapter 31. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 02:18:50 Chapter 32 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 13th Revelation. Chapter 32 There be deeds evil done in our sight, And so great harms taken, That it seemeth to us that it were impossible

Starting point is 02:19:17 That ever it should come to good end, That great deed ordained by which our Lord God shall make all things well. One time our good Lord said, All things shall be well, And another time, he said, Thou shalt see thyself that all manner of things, shall be well, and in these two sayings the soul took sundry understandings. One was that he willeth we know that not only he taketh heed to noble things and to great,

Starting point is 02:19:53 but also to little and to small, to low, and to simple, to one and to other, and so meaneth he in that he saith all manner of things shall be well, for he willeth we know that the least thing shall not be forgotten. Another understanding is this, that there be deeds evil done in our sight, and so great harms taken, that it seemeth to us that it were impossible, that ever it should come to good end,

Starting point is 02:20:26 and upon this we look, sorrowing and mourning, therefore, so that we cannot resign us unto the blissful beholding of God as we should do. and the cause of this is that the use of our reason is now so blind so low and so simple that we cannot know that high marvellous wisdom the might and the goodness of the blissful trinity And thus signifieth he when he saith, Thou shalt see thyself, if all manner of things shall be well, As if he said, Take now heed faithfully and trustingly, and at the last end thou shalt verily see it in fullness of joy. And thus in these same five words aforesaid,

Starting point is 02:21:14 I may make all things well, etc. I understand a mighty comfort of all the work, of our Lord God that are yet to come. There is a deed which the Blessed Trinity shall do in the last day as to my sight, and when the deed shall be, and how it shall be done, is unknown of all creatures that are beneath Christ, and shall be till when it is done. The goodness and the love of our Lord God will that we wit that it shall be, and the might and the wisdom of him by the same love, will conceal it, and hide it from us what it shall be, and how it shall be done. And the cause why he willeth that we know this deed shall be, is for that he would have us the more eased in our soul,

Starting point is 02:22:07 and the more set at peace in love, leaving the beholding of all troublous things that might keep us back from true enjoying of him. This is that great deed ordained by our Lord God from without beginning, treasured and hid in his blessed only known to himself by which he shall make all things well for like as the blissful Trinity made all things of naught right so the same blessed Trinity shall make well

Starting point is 02:22:38 all that is not well and in this sight I marvelled greatly and beheld our faith marvelling thus our faith is grounded in God's word and it belongeth to our faith that we believe that God's word shall be saved in all things. And one point of our faith is that many creatures shall be condemned, as angels that fell out of heaven for pride which be now fiends, and man in earth that dieth out of the faith of holy church,

Starting point is 02:23:13 that is to say, they that be heathen men, and also man that hath received Christendom, and liveth unchristian life, and so dieth out of charity. All these shall be condemned to hell without end, as Holy Church teacheth me to believe. And all this so standing, me thought it was impossible that all manner of things should be well, as our Lord showed in the same time.

Starting point is 02:23:43 And as to this I had no other answer in showing of our Lord God, but this, that which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me. I shall save my word in all things, and I shall make all things well. Thus I was taught by the grace of God that I should steadfastly hold me in the faith, as I had aforehand understood,

Starting point is 02:24:09 and therewith that I should firmly believe that all things shall be well, as our Lord showed in the same time. For this is the great deed that our Lord shall do, In which deed he shall save his word, And he shall make all well that is not well. How it shall be done, there is no creature beneath Christ that knoweth it, Nor shall know it till it is done,

Starting point is 02:24:35 According to the understanding that I took of our Lord's meaning in this time. End of chapter 32. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 33 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich The 13th Revelation, Chapter 33 It is God's will that we have great regard to all his deeds that he hath done,

Starting point is 02:25:17 but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the deed shall be, and yet in this I desired as far as I durst, that I might have full sight of hell and purgatory. But it was not my meaning to make proof of anything that belongeth to the faith, for I believed soothfastly that hell and purgatory is for the same end that Holy Church teacheth, but my meaning was that I might have seen, for learning in all things that belong to my faith,

Starting point is 02:25:54 whereby I might live the more to God's worship and to my prophet. But for all my desire I could see of this right naught, save as it is aforesaid in the first showing, where I saw that the devil is reproved of God and endlessly condemned, in which sight I understood as to all creatures that are of the devil's condition in this life, and therein end that there is no more mention made of, of them afore God and all His holy than of the devil, notwithstanding that they be of mankind, whether they be christened or not. For though the revelation was made of goodness in which was made

Starting point is 02:26:39 little mention of evil, yet I was not drawn thereby from any point of the faith that Holy Church teacheth me to believe, for I had sight of the Passion of Christ in diverse showings, the first, the second, the fifth, and the eighth, wherein I had in part a feeling of the sorrow of our lady, and of his true friends that saw him in pain. But I saw not so properly specified the Jews that did him to death. Notwithstanding I knew in my faith that they were accursed and condemned without end, saving those that converted by grace, and I was strengthened and taught generally to keep me in the faith in every point, and in all as I had before understood, hoping that I was therein with the mercy and the grace of God, desiring and praying in my purpose that I might continue therein unto my

Starting point is 02:27:38 life's end. And it is God's will that we have great regard to all his deeds that he hath done, but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the deed shall be, and let us desire to be like our brethren which be saints in heaven, that will write naught but God's will, and are well pleased, both with hiding and with showing. For I saw soothly in our Lord's teaching, the more we busy us to know his secret counsels in this or any other thing, the father shall we be from the knowing thereof. End of Chapter 33. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 34 of Revelation. of divine love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich.

Starting point is 02:28:42 The 13th Revelation, chapter 34. All that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord show us. Our Lord God showed two manner of secret things. One is this great secret counsel. with all the privy points that belong there to, and these secret things he willeth we should know as being but as hid

Starting point is 02:29:11 until the time that he will clearly show them to us. The other are the secret things that he willeth to make open and known to us, for he would have us understand that it is his will that we should know them. They are secrets to us, not only for that he willeth that they be secrets to us, but they are secrets to us for our blindness and our ignorance.

Starting point is 02:29:38 And thereof he hath great Ruth, and therefore he will himself make them more open to us, whereby we may know him and love him and cleave to him. For all that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord show us. And of that is this showing, with all the preaching and teaching of holy, Church. God showed full great pleasance that he hath in all men and women that mightily and meekly,

Starting point is 02:30:11 and with all their will, take the preaching and teaching of Holy Church. For it is His Holy Church. He is the ground. He is the substance. He is the teaching. He is the teacher. He is the end. He is the meed for which every kind soul travaileth. and this of the showing is made known and shall be known to every soul to which the holy ghost declares it and i hope truly that all those that seek this he shall speed for they seek god All this that I have now told, and more that I shall tell after, is comforting against sin. For in the third showing, when I saw that God doeth all that is done, I saw no sin, and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said he, all shall be well.

Starting point is 02:31:17 End of Chapter 34. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 35 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 13th Revelation, Chapter 35. I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I loved. It is more worship to God to behold Him in all. and when God Almighty had showed so plentiously and joyfully of his goodness, I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I loved, if it should continue in good living, which I hoped by the

Starting point is 02:32:13 grace of God was begun. And in this desire for a singular showing, it seemed that I hindered myself, for I was not taught in this time. And then was I answered in my own. And then was I answered in reason, as it were by a friendly intervener, take it generally, and behold the graciousness of the Lord God as He showeth to thee, for it is more worship to God to behold Him in all than in any special thing. And therewith I learned that it is more worship to God to know all thing in general than to take pleasure in any special thing. And if I should do wisely according to this tip, I should not only be glad for nothing in special, but I should not be greatly distressed for no manner of thing, for all shall be well. For the fullness of joy is to behold God in all,

Starting point is 02:33:13 for by the same blessed might, wisdom and love that he made all thing, to the same end our good lord leadeth it continually, and thereto himself shall bring it, and when it is time, we shall see it, and the ground of this was showed in the first revelation, and more openly in the third, where it saith, I saw God in a point. All that our Lord doeth is rightful, and that which he suffereth is worshipful, and in these two is comprehended good and ill, for all that is good, our Lord doeth, and that which is evil, our Lord suffereth. I say not that any evil is worshipful, but I say the sufferance of our Lord God is worshipful,

Starting point is 02:34:06 whereby His goodness shall be known without end, in his marvellous meekness and mildness, by the working of mercy and grace. Rightfulness is that thing that is so good that it may not be better than it is. For God himself is very rightfulness, and all his works are done rightfully, as they are ordained from without beginning

Starting point is 02:34:32 by his high might, his high wisdom, his high goodness. And right as he ordained unto the best, right so he worketh continually, and leadeth it to the same end. And he is ever full pleased with himself and with all his works. and the beholding of this blissful accord is full sweet to the soul that seeth by grace. All the souls that shall be saved in heaven without end be made rightful in the sight of God

Starting point is 02:35:05 and by his own goodness, in which rightfulness we are endlessly kept and marvelously above all creatures, and mercy is a working that cometh out of the goodness of God, and it shall last in working all along, as sin is suffered to pursue rightful souls, and when sin hath no longer leave to pursue, then shall the working of mercy cease, and then shall all be brought to rightfulness, and therein stand without end.

Starting point is 02:35:40 And by his sufferance we fall, and in his blissful love with his might and his wisdom we are kept, and by mercy and grace we are raised to manifold more joys. Thus in rightfulness and mercy, he willeth to be known and loved, now and without end. And the soul that wisely beholdeth it in grace, it is well pleased with both, and endlessly enjoyeth. End of Chapter 35. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 02:36:26 36 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 13th Revelation, Chapter 36. My sin shall not hinder his goodness working. A deed shall be done as we come to heaven, and it may be known here in part. Though it be truly taken for the general man, yet it exclusion. not the special. For what our good Lord will do by his poor creatures it is now unknown to me. Our Lord God showed that a deed shall be done, and himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin,

Starting point is 02:37:16 and my sin shall not hinder his goodness working. And I saw that the beholding of this is a heavenly joy in a fearing soul, which ever more kindly by grace desireth God's will. this deed shall be begun here and it shall be worshipful to god and plenteously profitable to his lovers in earth and ever as we come to heaven we shall see it in marvellous joy and it shall last thus in working unto the last day and the worship and the bliss of it shall last in heaven afore god and all his holy ones for ever thus was this deed seen and understood in our lord's signifying and the cause why he showed it is to make us rejoice in him and in all his works when i saw his showing continued i understood that it was showed for a great thing that was for to come which thing God showed that he himself should do it, which deed hath these properties aforesaid, and this showed he well blissfully,

Starting point is 02:38:28 signifying that I should take it myself faithfully and trustingly. But what this deed should be was kept secret from me. And in this I saw that he willeth not that we dread to know the things that he showeth, he showeth them because he would have us know them, by which knowing he would have us love him, and have pleasure and endlessly enjoy in him. For the great love that he hath to us, he showeth us all that is worshipful and profitable for the time,

Starting point is 02:39:03 and the things that he will now have privy, yet of his great goodness he showeth them close, in which showing he willeth that we believe and understand that we shall see the same verily in his endless bliss. Then ought we to rejoice in him for all that he showeth, and all that he hideeth. And if we steadily and meekly do thus, we shall find therein great ease, and endless thanks we shall have of him, therefore. And this is the understanding of this word,

Starting point is 02:39:38 That it shall be done for me, meaneth that it shall be done for the general man, That is to say all that shall be saved. It shall be worshipful and marvellous and plenteous, and God himself shall do it. And this shall be the highest joy that may be to behold the deed that God himself shall do, and man shall do right naught but sin. Then signifieth our Lord God thus,

Starting point is 02:40:08 as if he said, Behold and see, Here hast thou matter of meekness, here hast thou matter of love, here hast thou matter to make naught of thyself, here hast thou matter to enjoy in me, and for my love, enjoy thou in me, for of all things therewith mightest thou please me most. And as long as we are in this life, what time that we by our folly turn us to the beholding of the reproved, tenderly our Lord God toucheth us and blissfully calleth us, saying in our soul, Let be all thy love, my dear worthy child, turn thee to me, I am enough to thee,

Starting point is 02:40:51 and enjoy in thy saviour and in thy salvation. And that this is our Lord's working in us, I am sure the soul that hath understanding therein by grace shall see it and feel it. And though it be so that this deed be truly taken for the general man, yet it excludeth not the special, for what our good Lord will do by his poor creatures, it is now unknown to me. But this deed and that other aforesaid they are not both one, but too sundry. This deed shall be done sooner, and that time shall be as we come to heaven, and to whom our Lord giveth it, it may be known here in part. But that great deed aforesaid shall neither be known in heaven nor earth till it is done.

Starting point is 02:41:46 And moreover he gave special understanding and teaching of working of miracles as thus. It is known that I have done miracles here afore, many and diverse, high and marvellous, worshipful and great. and so as I have done I do now continually and shall do in coming of time. It is known that afore miracles come sorrow and anguish and tribulation, and that is for that we should know our own feebleness and our mischiefs that we are fallen in by sin to meekan us and make us to dread God and cry for help and grace. Miracles come after that, and they come of the high might, wisdom and goodness of God,

Starting point is 02:42:36 showing his virtue and the joys of heaven so far as it may be in this passing life, and that to strengthen our faith and to increase our hope in charity, wherefore it pleaseth him to be known and worshipped in miracles, then signifieth he thus, he willeth that we be not borne over low, for sorrow and tempests that fall to us, for it hath ever so been a fore miracle coming. End of Chapter 36. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 37 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich, the 13th Revelation,

Starting point is 02:43:35 Chapter 37 In every soul that shall be saved is a godly will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall. For failing of love on our part, therefore is all our travail. God brought to my mind that I should sin, and for pleasance that I had in beholding of him, I attended not readily to that showing, and our Lord full mercifully abode and gave me grace to attend.

Starting point is 02:44:10 And this showing I took singularly to myself, but by all the gracious comfort that followeth, as ye shall see, I was learned to take it for all mine even Christians, all in general and nothing in special, though our Lord showed me that I should sin, by me alone is understood all. And therein I conceived a soft dread, And to this our Lord answered,

Starting point is 02:44:40 I keep thee full surely. This word was said with more love and secureness And spiritual keeping than I can or may tell, For as it was showed that I should sin, Right so was the comfort showed, Secureness and keeping for all mine even Christians. What may make me more to love mine even Christians than to see in God that He loveth all that shall be saved, as it were all one soul? For in every soul that shall be saved is a godly will that never assented to sin,

Starting point is 02:45:19 nor ever shall. Right as there is a beastly will in the lower part that may will no good, right so there is a godly will in the higher part, which will is so good, good, that it may never will evil, but ever good. And therefore we are that which he loveth, and endlessly we do that which him pleaseth. This showed our Lord in showing the wholeness of love that we stand in, in his sight, yea, that he loveth us now, as well while we are here, as he shall do while we are there afore his blessed face. But for failing love on our part, Therefore is all our travail. End of Chapter 37.

Starting point is 02:46:09 This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 38 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 13th Revelation. Chapter 38. In heaven, the token of sin is turned to. to worship. Examples thereof. Also God showed that sin shall be no shame to man, but worship. For right as to every sin is answering a pain by truth, right so for every sin to the same

Starting point is 02:46:59 soul is given a bliss by love. Right as diverse sins are punished with diverse pains according as they be grievous, right so shall they be rewarded with diverse joys in heaven, according as they have been painful and sorrowful to the soul on earth. For the soul that shall come to heaven is precious to God, and the place so worshipful that the goodness of God suffereth never, that soul to sin that shall come there without that the which sin shall be rewarded, and it is made known without end and blissfully restored by overpassing worship. For in this sight my understanding was lifted up into heaven,

Starting point is 02:47:48 and then God brought merrily to mind David and others in the old law without number, and in the new law he brought to my mind first Mary Magdalene, Peter and Paul, and those of Ind, and St. John of Beverley, and others also without number, how they are known in the church in earth with their sins, and it is to them no shame, but all is turned for them to worship, and therefore our courteous lord

Starting point is 02:48:20 showeth it thus for them here in part, like as it is there in fullness, for there the token of sin is turned to worship. And St. John of Beverley, our Lord showed him full rightly in comfort to us for homeliness, and brought to my mind how he is a dear neighbour, and of our knowing, and God called him St. John of Beverley, plainly as we do, and that with a most glad, sweet cheer,

Starting point is 02:48:52 showing that he is a full high saint in heaven in his sight and a blissful. And with this he made mention that in his youth and in his tender age, was a dear worthy servant to God, greatly God-loving and dreading, and yet God suffered him to fall, mercifully keeping him that he perish not, nor lost no time, and afterward God raised him to manifold good grace, and by the contrition and meekness that he had in his living, God hath given him in heaven manifold joys, overpassing that which he should have had if he had not fallen. And that this is sooth, God showeth in earth, with plenteous miracles doing about his body continually. And all this was to make us glad and merry in love.

Starting point is 02:49:49 End of Chapter 38. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 39 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. of divine love by Julian of Norwich, the 13th Revelation, Chapter 39. Sin is the sharpest scourge. By contrition we are made clean, by compassion we are made ready, and by true longing towards God we are made worthy. Sin is the sharpest scourge that any chosen soul may be smitten with, which scourge thoroughly beaten, and, by God, which scourge thoroughly beateth man and woman, and maketh him hateful in his own sight, so far forth that after while he thinketh himself he is not worthy but as to sink in hell, till that time when contrition

Starting point is 02:50:56 taketh him by touching of the Holy Ghost, and turneth the bitterness into hopes of God's mercy, and then he beginneth his wounds to heal, and the soul to quicken, as it is turned unto the life of Holy Church. The Holy Ghost leadeth him to confession, with all his will to show his sins nakedly and truly, with great sorrow and great shame that he hath defouled the fair image of God. Then receiveth he penance for every sin as enjoined by his doomsman that is grounded in Holy Church by the teaching of the Holy Ghost. And this is one meek of the Lord. And this is one meek of the life. that greatly pleaseth God, and also bodily sickness of God's sending, and also sorrow and shame from without, and reproof, and despite of this world, with all manner of grievance and temptations

Starting point is 02:51:57 that we be cast in, bodily and ghostly. Full preciously our Lord keepeth us when it seemeth to us that we are near forsaken and cast away for our sin and because we have deserved it. But because of meekness that we get hereby, we are raised well high in God's sight by His grace, with so great contrition and also compassion and true longing to God. Then they be suddenly delivered from sin and from pain, and taken up to bliss and made even high saints.

Starting point is 02:52:37 By contrition we are made clear, clean. By compassion we are made ready, and by true longing toward God we are made worthy. These are three means, as I understand, whereby that all souls come to heaven. That is to say, that have been sinners in earth and shall be saved. For by these three medicines it behoveth that every soul be healed. Though the soul be healed, his wounds are seen afore God, not as wounds but as worships. And so on the contrary wise, as we be punished here with sorrow and penance,

Starting point is 02:53:19 we shall be rewarded in heaven by the courteous love of our Lord God Almighty, who willeth that none that come there lose his travail in any degree. For he beholdeth sin as sorrow and pain to his lovers, to whom he assigneth no blame for love, the mead that we shall receive shall not be little but it shall be high glorious and worshipful and so shall shame be turned to worship and more joy but our courteous lord willeth not that his servants despair for often nor for grievous falling for our falling hindereth not him to love us peace and love are ever in us being and

Starting point is 02:54:09 working. But we be not always in peace and in love, but he willeth that we take heed thus, that he is ground of all our whole life in love, and furthermore that he is our everlasting keeper, and mightily defendeth us against our enemies, that be fulfil and fierce upon us. And so much our need is the more, for that we give them occasion by our falling. End of Chapter 39. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 40 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 13th Revelation, Chapter 40.

Starting point is 02:55:08 True love teaches us that we should hate sin only for love. To me was showed no harder hell than sin. God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it. This is a sovereign friendship of our courteous Lord that he keepeth us so tenderly while we be in sin, and furthermore he toucheth us full privily, and showeth us our sin by the sweet light of mercy and grace.

Starting point is 02:55:44 But when we see ourselves so foul, then ween we that God were wrath with us for our sin, and then are we stirred of the Holy Ghost by contrition into prayer and desire for the amending of our life with all our mights to slacken the wrath of God unto the time we find a rest in soul and a softness in conscience. Then hope we that God hath forgiven us our sins. and it is true. And then showeth our courteous lord himself to the soul, well merrily and with glad cheer, with friendly welcoming,

Starting point is 02:56:25 as if it had been in pain and in prison, saying sweetly thus, My darling, I am glad thou art come to me, in all thy woe I have ever been with thee. And now seest thou my loving, and we be woned in bliss. Thus are, sins forgiven by mercy and grace, and our soul is worshipfully received in joy, like as it shall be

Starting point is 02:56:52 when it cometh to heaven, as oftentimes as it cometh by the gracious working of the Holy Ghost, and the virtue of Christ's passion. Here understand I, in truth, that all manner of things are made ready for us by the great goodness of God, so far forth that what time we be ourselves in peace and charity, we be verily saved. But because we may not have this in fullness while we are here, therefore it falleth to us evermore to live in sweet prayer and lovely longing with our Lord Jesus. For he longeth ever to bring us to the fullness of joy,

Starting point is 02:57:36 as it is aforesaid where he showeth the spiritual thirst. But now, if any man or woman because of all, all this spiritual comfort that is aforesaid, be stirred by folly to say or to think, If this be true, then were it good to sin so as to have the more mead, or else to charge the less guilt to sin, beware of this stirring, for verily if it come it is untrue, and of the enemy of the same true love that teaches us that we should hate sin only for love. I am sure by my known feeling The more that any kind soul

Starting point is 02:58:17 Seeth this in the courteous love of our Lord God The loather he is to sin And the more he is ashamed For if afore us were laid together All the pains in hell and in purgatory And in earth, death and other And by itself sin We should rather choose all that pain than sin

Starting point is 02:58:38 For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated, that it may be likened to no pain which is not sin. And to me was showed no harder hell than sin, for a kind soul hath no hell but sin. And when we give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean, as mighty and as wise as God is to save men, so willing he is. For Christ himself is the ground of all the laws of Christian men, and he taught us to do good against ill. Here may we see that he is himself this charity,

Starting point is 02:59:26 and doeth to us as he teacheth us to do, for he willeth that we be like him in wholeness of endless love to ourself and to our even Christians. No more than his love is broken to us for our sin. No more willeth he that our love be broken to our self and to our even Christians, but that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul as God loveth it.

Starting point is 02:59:56 Then shall we hate sin, like as God hateth it, and love the soul as God loveth it. And this word, that he said is an endless comfort. I keep thee securely. End of chapter 40. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 41 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 14th Revelation. Chapter 41. I am the ground thy beseeching. After this our Lord showed concerning prayer, in which showing I see two conditions in our Lord signifying. One is rightfulness, another is sure trust. But yet oftentimes our trust

Starting point is 03:01:04 is not full, for we are not sure that God heareth us, as we think because of our unworthiness, and because we feel right naught, for we are as barren and dry oftentimes after our prayers as we were afore, and this in our feeling, our folly, is cause of our weakness, for thus have I felt in myself. And all this brought our Lord suddenly to my mind, and showed these words, and said, I am ground of thy beseeching. first it is my will that thou have it, and after I make thee to will it, and after I make thee to beseech it, and thou beseechest it. How should it then be that thou shouldst not have thy beseeching?

Starting point is 03:02:00 And thus, in the first reason, with the three that follow, our good lord showeth a mighty comfort, as it may be seen in the same words. And in the first reason, where he saith, and thou beseechest it, there he showeth his full great pleasance, and endless mead that he will give us for our beseeching. And in the second, where he saith, how should it then be, etc., this was said for an impossible thing, for it is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it, for everything that our good Lord maketh us to beseech himself hath ordained it to us from without beginning. Here we may see that our beseeching is not cause of God's goodness,

Starting point is 03:02:54 and that showed he soothfastly in all these sweet words when he saith, I am the ground. And our good Lord willeth that this be known of his lovers in earth, and the more that we know it, the more should we beseech, if it be wisely taken, and so is our Lord's meaning. Beseeching is a true, gracious, lasting will of the soul, woned and fastened into the will of our Lord by the sweet inward work of the Holy Ghost. Our Lord himself, he is the first receiver of our prayer as to my sight,

Starting point is 03:03:37 and taketh it full thankfully and highly enjoying, and he sendeth it up above, and seteth it in the treasure, where it shall never perish. It is there afore God, with all His holy, continually received, ever speeding the help of our needs, and when we shall receive our bliss,

Starting point is 03:04:00 it shall be given us for a degree of joy, with endless worshipful thanking from him. full glad and merry is our lord of our prayer and he looketh thereafter and he willeth to have it because with his grace he maketh us like to himself in condition as we are kind and so is his blissful will therefore he saith thus pray inwardly though thee thinketh it savour thee not for it is profitable though thou feel not though thou see naught yea though thou think thou canst not for in dryness and in barrenness in sickness and in feebleness then is thy prayer well pleasant to me though thee thinketh it savour thee naught but little And so is all thy believing prayer in my sight. For the meed and the endless thanks that he will give us, therefore he is covetous to have us pray continually in his sight.

Starting point is 03:05:10 God accepteth the good will and the travail of his servant, howsoever we feel. Wherefore it pleaseth him that we work both in our prayers and in good living. By his help and his grace, reasonably with discretion keeping our powers turned to him till when we have him that we seek in fullness of joy that is Jesus and that showed he in the fifteenth revelation farther on in this word thou shalt have me to thy meed and also to prayer belongeth thanking thanking is a true inward knowing

Starting point is 03:05:54 with great reverence and lovely dread, turning ourselves with all our mights unto the working that our good Lord stirreth us to, enjoying and thanking inwardly. And sometimes, for plenteousness, it breaketh out with voice, and saith, good Lord, I thank thee. Blessed mayst thou be.

Starting point is 03:06:19 And sometime when the heart is dry and feeleth not, or else by temptation of our enemy, then it is driven by reason and by grace to cry upon our Lord with voice, rehearing his blessed passion and his great goodness. And the virtue of our Lord's word turneth into the soul and quickeneth the heart, and entereth it by his grace into true working,

Starting point is 03:06:48 and maketh it pray right blissfully, and truly to enjoy our Lord, it is a full, blissful thanking in his sight. End of Chapter 41. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 42 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 14th Revelation, Chapter 42. Prayer is a right understanding of that fullness of joy that is to come with accordant longing and sure trust.

Starting point is 03:07:40 Our Lord God willeth that we have true understanding, and especially in three things that belong to our prayer. The first is, by whom and how that our prayer springeth, by whom he showeth when he saith, I am the ground, and how, by his goodness, for he saith first, it is my will. The second is, in what manner and how we should use our prayer, and that is that our will be turned unto the will of our Lord, enjoying, and so meaneth he when he saith, I will make thee to will it. The third is that we should know the fruit, and the truth, and the earth. end of our prayers, that is, that we be woned and like to our Lord in all things, and to this intent, and for this end was all this lovely lesson showed, and he will help us, and we shall

Starting point is 03:08:42 make it so as he saith himself, blessed may he be. For this is our Lord's will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large, for if we trust not as much as we pray, we do not full worship to our Lord in our prayer, and also we tarry and pain ourselves. The cause is, as I believe, that we know not truly that our Lord is the ground on whom our prayer springeth, and also that we know not that it is given us by the grace of his love, for if we knew this, it would make us to trust to have of our Lord's gift all the Lord's gift all that we desire, for I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace be first given to him.

Starting point is 03:09:39 But sometimes it cometh to our minds that we have prayed long time, and yet we think to ourselves that we have not our asking, and herefore should we not be in heaviness, for I am sure, by our Lord signifying, that either we abide a better time or more grace or a better gift. He willeth that we have true knowing in himself that he is being. And in this knowing he willeth that our understanding be grounded with all our might and all our intent and all our meaning.

Starting point is 03:10:18 And in this ground he willeth that we take our place and our dwelling. And by the gracious light of himself he will be, willeth that we have understanding of the things that follow. The first is our noble and excellent making. The second, our precious and dear worthy again buying. The third, all thing that he hath made beneath us, he hath made to serve us, and for our love keepeth it. Then signifieth he thus, as if he said,

Starting point is 03:10:52 behold and see that I have done all this before thy prayers, and now thou art and prayest me, and thus he signifieth that it belongeth to us to learn that the greatest deeds be already done, as Holy Church teacheth. And in the beholding of this, with thanking, we ought to pray for the deed that is now in doing, and that is that he rule and guide and guide us to his worship in this life and bring us to his bliss, and therefore he hath done all. Then signifieth he thus, that we should see that he doeth it, and that we should pray, therefore. For the one is not enough, for if we pray and see not that he doeth it, it maketh us heavy and doubtful, and that is not his worship. And if we see that He doeth, and we pray not,

Starting point is 03:11:56 we do not our debt, and so may it not be. That is to say, so is it not the thing that is in his beholding. But to see that He doeth it, and to pray for with all, so is he worshipped, and we sped. All things that our Lord hath ordained to do, it is his will that we pray therefore, either in special or in general. And the joy and the bliss that is to him, and the thanks and the worship that we shall have therefore, it passeth the understanding of creatures as to my sight. For prayer is a right understanding of that fullness of joy that is to come, with what well longing and sure trust. Failing of our bliss that we be kindly ordained to makeeth us to long. True understanding and love with sweet mind in our saviour graciously maketh us to trust.

Starting point is 03:13:01 And in these two workings our Lord beholdeth us continually, for it is our due part, and his goodness may no less assign to us. Thus it belongeth to us to do our diligence. And when we have done it, Then shall us yet think that it is naught, And sooth it is, For if we do as we can, And ask in truth for mercy and grace,

Starting point is 03:13:29 All that faileth us we shall find in him. And thus signifieth he where he saith, I am ground of thy beseeching. And thus in this blessed word with the shawl, with the showing, I saw a full overcoming against all our weakness and all our doubtful dreads. End of Chapter 42. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 43 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 14th Revelation.

Starting point is 03:14:20 Chapter 43. Prayer uniteth the soul to God. Prayer woneth the soul to God. For though the soul be ever like to God in kind and substance, restored by grace, it is often unlike in condition by sin on man's part. Then is prayer a witness that the soul willeth as God willeth, and it comforteth the conscience and enableeth man to grace. And thus he teacheth us to pray, and mightily to trust that we shall have it. For he beholdeth us in love,

Starting point is 03:15:04 and would make us partners of his good deed, and therefore he stirreth us to pray for that which it pleaseth him to do. For which prayer and good will that we have of his gift, he will reward us and give us endless mead. And this was showed in this word, and thou beseechest it. In this word God showed so great pleasance and so great content,

Starting point is 03:15:34 as though he were much beholden to us for every good deed that we do, and yet it is he that doeth it, because that we beseech him mightily to do all things that seem to him good, as if he said, what might then please me more than to beseech me mightily, wisely and earnestly, to do that thing that I shall do? And thus the soul by prayer accordeth to God. And when our courteous lord of his grace showeth himself to our soul, we have that which we desire, And then we see not for the time what we should more pray, But all our intent with all our might

Starting point is 03:16:22 Is set wholly to the beholding of Him. And this is an high unperceivable prayer as to my sight. For all the cause wherefore we pray it, It is oneed into the sight and beholding of Him to whom we pray, marvelously enjoying with reverent dread and with so great sweetness and delight in him that we can pray right naught but as he stirreth us for the time

Starting point is 03:16:51 and will I what the more the soul seeth of God the more it desireth him by his grace but when we see him not so then feel we need and cause to pray because of failing for an of ourself to Jesus. And when the soul is tempested, troubled, and left to itself by unrest, then it is time to pray, for to make itself pliable and obedient to God. But the soul, by no

Starting point is 03:17:27 manner of prayer, maketh God pliant to it, for he is ever alike in love. And this I saw, that what time we see needs, wherefore we pray, then our good Lord followeth us, helping our desire, and when we of his special grace plainly behold him, seeing none other needs, then we follow him, and he draweth us unto him by love. For I saw and felt that his marvellous and plentiful goodness

Starting point is 03:18:00 fulfileth all our powers, and therewith I saw that his continuant working in all manner of things is done so goodly, so wisely and so mightily that it overpasseth all our imagining, and all that we can wean and think, and then we can do no more but behold him, enjoying with an high, mighty desire to be all woned unto him, centred to his dwelling, and enjoy in his loving, and delight in his goodness. And then shall we with his sweet grace, our own meek, continuant prayer, come unto him now, in this life, by many privy touchings as sweet

Starting point is 03:18:47 spiritual sights and feeling, measured to us as our simpleness may bear it. And this is wrought, and shall be, by the grace of the Holy Ghost, so long till we shall die in longing for love. And then shall we all come unto our Lord, our self. clearly knowing and God fully having. And we shall endlessly be all had in God, Him verily seeing and fully feeling, Him spiritually hearing, and him delectably in-breathing, and of him sweetly drinking. And then we shall see God face to face, homely and fully, the creature that is made shall see and endlessly behold God which is the maker.

Starting point is 03:19:43 For thus may no man see God and live after, that is to say, in this deadly life. But when he of his special grace will show himself here, he strengtheneth the creature above itself, and he measureth the showing after his own will as it is profitable for the time. End of Chapter 43. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 44 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. Anent Certain Points in the foregoing 14 revelations.

Starting point is 03:20:39 Chapter 44 God is endless, sovereign truth, wisdom, love, not made, and man's soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made. God showed in all the revelations, oftentimes, that man worketh evermore his will and his worship lastingly without any stinting. And what this work is was showed in the first, and that in a marvellous example, for it was showed in the working of the soul of our blessed lady, St. Mary, that is, the working of truth and wisdom, and how it is done, I hope, by the grace of the Holy Ghost I shall tell, as I saw. Truth seeth God, and wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two

Starting point is 03:21:37 cometh the third, that is, a holy, marvellous delight in God, which is love. Where truth and wisdom are verily, there is love verily, coming of them both, and all of God's making, for he is endless sovereign truth, endless sovereign wisdom, endless sovereign love unmade, and man's soul is a creature in God, which hath the same properties made, and evermore it doeth that it was made for, it seeth God, it beholdeth God, and it loveth God, whereof God enjoyeth in the creature, and the creature in God, endlessly marveling. In which marveling he seeth his God, his Lord, his maker so high, so great and so good, in comparison with him that is made, that scarcely the creature seemeth aught to the self.

Starting point is 03:22:41 But the clarity and the clearness of truth and wisdom maketh him to see and to bear witness that he is made for love, in which God endlessly keepeth him. End of Chapter 44. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 45 of Revelations of Divine Love, Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich Anent Certain Points in the Foregoing 14 Revelations

Starting point is 03:23:24 Chapter 45 All heavenly things and all earthly things that belong to heaven are comprehended in these two judgments. God deemeth us looking upon our nature substance which is ever kept one in him, whole and safe without end. And this doom is because of his rightfulness, in the which it is made and kept. And man, judgeseth looking upon our changeable sense, soul,

Starting point is 03:23:58 which seemeth now one thing, now another, according as it taketh of the higher or lower parts, and is that which showeth outward. And this wisdom of man's judgment, is mingled because of the diverse things it beholdeth. For sometimes it is good and easy, and sometimes it is hard and grievous, and inasmuch as it is good and easy,

Starting point is 03:24:25 it belongeth to the rightfulness, and inasmuch as it is hard and grievous, by reason of the sin beheld, which showeth in our sense soul, our good Lord Jesus reformeth it, by the working of our sense soul, of mercy and grace through the virtue of his blessed passion, and so bringeth it to the rightfulness. And though these two judgments be thus accorded and woned, yet both shall be known in heaven without end.

Starting point is 03:24:58 The first doom which is of God's rightfulness is because of his high endless life in our substance, and this is that fair sweet doom that was showed in all the fair revelation, in which I saw him assigned to us no manner of blame. But though this was sweet and delectable, yet in the beholding only of this I could not be fully eased, and that was because of the doom of Holy Church which I had afore understood and which was continually in my sight. and therefore by this doom he thought I understood that sinners are worthy some time of blame and wrath. But these two could I not see in God. And therefore my desire was more than I can or may tell, for the higher doom was showed by God himself in that same time,

Starting point is 03:25:55 and therefore me behoved needs to take it, and the lower doom was learned me afore in Holy Church, and therefore I might in no way leave the lower doom. Then was this my desire, that I might see in God in what manner that which the doom of Holy Church teacheth is true in his sight, and how it belongeth to me verily to know it,

Starting point is 03:26:21 whereby the two dooms might both be saved, so as it were worshipful to God and right way to me. And to all this, I am. had none other answer but a marvellous example of a lord and of a servant, as I shall tell after, and that full mistily showed. And yet I stand desiring, and will unto my end, that I might by grace know these two dooms as it belongeth to me, for all heaven and all earthly things that belong to heaven are comprehended in these two dooms. And the more understanding, by the gracious leading of the Holy Ghost

Starting point is 03:27:05 that we have of these two dooms, the more we shall see and know our failings. And ever the more that we see them, the more of nature, by grace, we shall long to be fulfilled of endless joy and bliss, for we are made thereto, and our nature substance is now blissful in God, and hath been since it was made,

Starting point is 03:27:31 and shall be without end. End of chapter 45. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 46 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. And ent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations. Chapter 46.

Starting point is 03:28:05 It is needful to see and to know that we are sinners, wherefore we deserve pain and wrath. He is God, good, life, truth, love, peace. His clarity and his unity suffereth him not to be wrath. But our passing life that we have here in our sense soul knoweth not what our self is. and when we verily and clearly see and know what our self is, then shall we verily and clearly see and know our Lord God in fullness of joy.

Starting point is 03:28:49 And therefore it behoveth needs to be that the nearer we be to our bliss, the more we shall long after it, and that both by nature and by grace. We may have knowing of ourselves in this life by continual. and virtue of our high nature, in which knowing we may exercise and grow by forwarding and speeding of mercy and grace, but we may never fully know ourselves until the last point, in which point this passing life and manner of pain and woe shall have an end, and therefore it belongeth properly to us both by nature and by grace to long and

Starting point is 03:29:35 desire with all our mights to know ourselves in fullness of endless joy. And yet in all this time, from the beginning to the end, I had two manner of beholdings. The one was endless, continuous, continuant love with secureness of keeping and blissful salvation, for of this was all the showing. The other was of the common teaching of Holy Church, in which I had was afore informed and grounded, and with all my will having in use and understanding. And the beholding of this went not from me, for by the showing I was not stirred nor led therefrom, in no manner of point, but I had therein teaching to love it and find it good, whereby I might, by the help of our Lord and His grace, increase and rise to more heavenly knowing,

Starting point is 03:30:35 and higher loving. And thus in all the beholding, me thought it was needful to see and to know that we are sinners, and do many evils that we ought to leave, and leave many good deeds undone that we ought to do, wherefore we deserve pain and wrath. And notwithstanding all this, I saw soothfastly that our Lord was never wrath nor ever shall be, for he is God, good, life, truth, love, peace. His clarity and his unity suffereth him not to be wrath. For I saw truly that it is against the property of his might to be wrath, and against the property of his wisdom, and against the property of his goodness. God is the goodness that may not be wrath, for he is not other but goodness. Our soul is. Our soul is. Our service. Our service. Our

Starting point is 03:31:35 soul is want to him, unchangeable goodness, and between God and our soul is neither wrath nor forgiveness in his sight. For our soul is so fully woned to God of his own goodness, that between God and our soul might be right naught. And to this understanding was the soul led by love and drawn by might in every showing, that it is thus our good Lord showed, and how it is thus in the truth of his great goodness, and he willeth that we desire to learn it, that is to say, as far as it belongeth to his creature to learn it. For all things that the simple soul understood, God willeth that they be showed and made known. For the things that he will have privy, mightily and wisely himself he hideth them for love.

Starting point is 03:32:37 For I saw in the same showing that much privity is hid, which may never be known until the time that God of His goodness hath made us worthy to see it. And therewith I am well content, abiding our Lord's will in this high marvel. And now I yield me to my mother, holy church, as a simple child, Oeth. End of chapter 46. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 47 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich and ent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations. Chapter 47. We fail oftentimes of the sight of him, and anon we fall into ourself, and then find we no feeling of right, nought but

Starting point is 03:33:47 contrariness that is in ourself. Two things belong to our soul as duty, the one is that we reverently marvel, the other that we meekly suffer, ever enjoying in God, for he would have us understand that we shall in short time see clearly in himself all the that we desire. And notwithstanding all this, I beheld and marvelled greatly, what is the mercy and forgiveness of God? For by the teaching that I had afore, I understood that the mercy of God should be the forgiveness of his wrath after the time that we have sinned. For me thought that to a soul whose meaning and desire is to love, the wrath of God was harder than any other pain,

Starting point is 03:34:42 and therefore I took that the forgiveness of his wrath should be one of the principal points of his mercy, but, howsoever I might behold and desire, I could in no wise see this point in all the showing. But how I understood and saw of the work of mercy, I shall tell somewhat, as God will give me grace. I understood this. Man is changeable in this life,

Starting point is 03:35:11 and by frailty and overcoming falleth into sin. He is weak and unwise of himself, and also his will is overlaid. And in this time he is in tempest and in sorrow and woe, and the cause is blindness, for he seeth not God. For if he saw God continually, he should have no mischievous feeling, nor any manner of motion or yearning that serveth to sin.

Starting point is 03:35:42 Thus saw I, and felt in the same time, and me thought that the sight and the feeling was high, and plentious and gracious in comparison with that which our common feeling is in this life, but yet I thought it was but small and low in comparison with the great desire that the soul hath to see God. For I felt in me five manner of workings, which be these, enjoying, mourning,

Starting point is 03:36:14 desire, dread, and sure hope. Enjoying, for God gave me understanding and knowing that it was himself that I saw. Mourning, and that was for failing. Desire,

Starting point is 03:36:31 and that was I might see him ever more and more, understanding and knowing that we shall never have full rest till we see him verily and clearly in heaven. Dread was, for it seemed to me in all that time, that that sight should fail, and I be left to myself. Sure hope was in the endless love, that I saw I should be kept by his mercy and brought to his bliss. And the loving in his sight, with this sure hope of his merciful keeping, made me to have feeling and comfort, so that mourning and dread were not greatly painful. And yet in all this I beheld in the showing of God that this manner of sight may not be continuant in this life,

Starting point is 03:37:23 and that for his own worship and for increase of our endless joy. And therefore we fail, we fail oftentimes of the sight of him, and anon we fall into ourself, and then find we no feeling of right, naught but contrariness that is in ourself, and that's of the elder root of our first sin, with all the sins that follow of our contrivance. And in this we are in travail and tempest with feeling of sins, and of pain in many diverse manners, spiritual and bodily as it is known to us in this life. End of Chapter 47. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 03:38:16 Chapter 48 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. Anent Certain Points in the foregoing 14 revelations. Chapter 48. I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace, which have two manners of working in one love. But our good Lord, the Holy Ghost, which is endless life dwelling in our soul,

Starting point is 03:38:56 full securely keepeth us, and worketh therein a peace, and bringeth it to ease by grace, and accordeth it to God, and maketh it pliant. And this is the mercy. and the way that our Lord continually leadeth us in, as long as we be here in this life which is changeable. For I saw no wrath but on man's part, and that forgiveth he in us,

Starting point is 03:39:26 for wrath is not else but a forwardness and a contrariness to peace and love, and either it cometh of failing of might or a failing of wisdom, or a failing of goodness. which failing is not in God but is on our part for we by sin and wretchedness have in us a wretched and continuant contrariness to peace and to love and that showed he full often in his lovely regard of ruth and pity for the ground of mercy is love and the working of mercy is our keeping in love and this was showed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy, but as it were alone in love,

Starting point is 03:40:17 that is to say, as to my sight. Mercy is a sweet, gracious working in love, mingled with plenteous pity, for mercy worketh in keeping us, and mercy worketh turning to us all things to good. Mercy, by love, suffereth us to fail in measure. and inasmuch as we fail, in so much we fall. And in as much as we fall, in so much we die. For it needs must be that we die in so much as we fail of the sight and feeling of God that is our life.

Starting point is 03:40:59 Our failing is dreadful, our falling is shameful, and our dying is sorrowful. But in all this the sweet eye of pity and love is lifted never off us, nor the working of mercy ceaseth. For I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace, which have two manners of working in one love. Mercy is a pitiful property, which belongeth to the motherhood in tender love, and grace is a worshipful property, which belongeth to the royal lordship in the

Starting point is 03:41:40 same love. Mercy worketh, keeping, suffering, quickening and healing, and all is tenderness of love, and grace worketh, raising, rewarding, endlessly overpassing that which our longing and our travail deserveth, spreading abroad and showing the high, plenteous largeness of God's royal lordship in his marvellous courtesy. and this is of the abundance of love. For grace worketh our dreadful failing into plenteous, endless solace,

Starting point is 03:42:21 And grace worketh our shameful falling Into high worshipful rising, And grace worketh our sorrowful dying Into holy, blissful life. For I saw full surely That ever as our contrariness worketh to us here in earth pain, shame, and sorrow. Right so on the contrary wise, grace worketh to us in heaven, solace, worship and bliss, and overpassing. And so far forth

Starting point is 03:42:57 that when we come up and receive the sweet reward which grace hath wrought for us, then we shall thank and bless our Lord, endlessly rejoicing that ever we suffered woe, and that shall be for a property of blessed love that we shall know in God which we could never have known without woe going before. And when I saw all this, it behoved me needs to grant that the mercy of God and the forgiveness is to slacken and waste our wrath. End of Chapter 48. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 03:43:39 Chapter 49 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich Andent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations Chapter 49 Where Our Lord Appeareth, peace is taken, and wrath hath no place. Immediately is the soul made at one with God When it is truly set at peace in itself

Starting point is 03:44:20 For this was an high marvel to the soul Which was continually showed in all the revelations And was with great diligence beholden That our Lord God anent himself may not forgive For he may not be wrath It were impossible For this was shown showed, that our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live,

Starting point is 03:44:53 and therefore to the soul that of his special grace seeth so far into the high, marvellous goodness of God, and seeth that we are endlessly won to him in love, it is the most impossible that may be that God should be wrath. For wrath and friendship be too close. contraries. For he that wasteth and destroyeth our wrath, and maketh us meek and mild, it behoveth needs be that he himself be ever one in love, meek and mild, which is contrary to wrath. For I saw full surely that where our lord appeareth, peace is taken, and wrath hath no place. for I saw no manner of wrath in God, neither for short time nor for long. For in sooth as to my sight, if God might be wrath for an instant, we should never have

Starting point is 03:45:55 life nor place nor being. For as verily as we have our being of the endless might of God and of the endless wisdom and of the endless goodness, so verily we have our keeping in the endless might of God, in the endless wisdom, and in the endless goodness. For though we feel in ourselves, frail wretches, debates and strifes, yet are we all mannerful enclosed in the mildness of God and in his meekness, in his benignity, and in his graciousness. For I saw full surely that all our endless friendship, our place, our love, our love, and in his graciousness, for I saw full surely that all our endless friendship, our place, our life and our being, is in God. For that same endless goodness that keep us when we sin, that we perish not,

Starting point is 03:46:51 the same endless goodness continually treateth in us a peace against our wrath and our contrarious falling, and maketh us to see our need with a true dread, and mightily to seek unto God to have forgiveness, with a gracious desire of our salvation. And though we, by the wrath and the contrariness that is in us, be now in tribulation, distress and woe, as falleth to our blindness and frailty, yet are we securely safe by the merciful keeping of God

Starting point is 03:47:28 that we perish not. But we are not blissfully safe, in having of our endless joy, till we be all in peace and in love, that is to say, full pleased with God and with all his works, and with all his judgments, and loving and peaceable with ourself,

Starting point is 03:47:49 and with our even Christians, and with all that God loveth, as love besiemeth. And this doeth God's goodness in us. Thus saw I that God, God is our very peace, and he is our sure keeper when we are ourselves in un-peace, and he continually worketh to bring us into endless peace. And thus when we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild,

Starting point is 03:48:21 we are full safe. Suddenly is the soul want to God when it is truly peace in itself, for in him is found no wrath. And thus I saw, when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us. Nay, our lord of his goodness, maketh it to us full profitable.

Starting point is 03:48:53 For that contrariness is cause of our tribulations and all our woe, and our Lord Jesus maketh them and sendeth them up to heaven, and there are they made more sweet and delectable than heart may think or tongue may tell, and when we come thither we shall find them ready, all turned into very fair and endless worships. Thus is God our steadfast ground, and he shall be our full bliss and make us unchangeable, hears when we are there. End of chapter 49. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 03:49:44 Chapter 50 of Revelations of Divine Love read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. Anent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations. Chapter 50 The blame of our sin continually hangeth upon us. us. In the sight of God, the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be dead. And in this life, mercy and forgiveness is our way, and evermore leadeth us to grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on our own part, we be often dead as to

Starting point is 03:50:28 man's doom in earth. But in the sight of God, the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be. But yet here I wandered and marvelled with all the diligence of my soul, saying thus within me, good Lord, I see thee that art very truth, and I know in truth that we sin grievously every day, and be much blameworthy, and I may neither leave the knowing of thy truth, nor do I see thee show to us any manner of blame. How may this be? for i knew by the common teaching of holy church and by my own feeling that the blame of our sin continually hangeth upon us from the first man unto the time that we come up into heaven then was this my marvel that i saw our lord god showing to us no more blame than if we were as clean and as holy as angels be in heaven and between these two contraries my reason was greatly traversed my reason was greatly traversed my reason was greatly veiled through my blindness, and could have no rest for dread that his blessed present should

Starting point is 03:51:41 pass from my sight, and I be left in unknowing of how He beholdeth us in our sin. For either it behoved me to see in God that sin was all done away, or else me behoved to see in God how He seeth it, whereby I might truly know how it belongeth to me to see sin, and the manner of our blame. My longing endured, him continually beholding, and yet I could have no patience for great straits and perplexity, thinking, if I take it thus that we be no sinners and not blameworthy, it seemeth as I should err and fail of knowing of his truth.

Starting point is 03:52:26 And if it be so that we be sinners and blameworthy, good Lord, how may it then be that I can, not see this true thing in thee, which art my God, my maker, in whom I desire to see all truths. For three points make me hardy to ask it. The first is, because it is so low a thing, for if it were an high thing I should be a dread. The second is that it is so common, for if it were special and privy, also I should be a dread. The third is, that it needeth me to know it, as me thinketh, if I shall live here for knowing of good and evil,

Starting point is 03:53:11 whereby I may, by reason and grace, the more despot them asunder, and love goodness and hate evil, as Holy Church teacheth. I cried inwardly, with all my might seeking unto God for help, saying thus, Ah, Lord Jesus, king of bliss, how shall I be eased? Who shall teach me and tell me that thing me needeth to know, if I may not at this time see it in thee?

Starting point is 03:53:42 End of Chapter 50. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 51 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. Anent Certain Points in the foregoing 14 Revelations. Chapter 51 He is the head, and we be his members. Therefore our father nor may nor will more blame assigned to us than to his own son,

Starting point is 03:54:22 precious and worthy Christ. And then our courteous lord answered, in showing full mystery, a wonderful example of a lord that hath a servant, and he gave me sight to my understanding of both, which sight was showed doubly in the Lord and doubly in the servant. The one part was showed spiritually in bodily likeness, and the other part was showed more spiritually without bodily likeness. For the first sight, thus I saw two persons in bodily likeness,

Starting point is 03:55:02 that is to say, a Lord and a servant, and therewith God gave me spiritual understanding. The Lord sitteth stately in rest and in peace. The servant standeth by afore his Lord reverently, ready to do his Lord's will. The Lord looketh upon his servant full lovingly and sweetly, and meekly he sendeth him to a certain place to do his will. The servant not only he goeth, but suddenly he starteth and runneth in great haste for love to do his Lord's will. And anon he falleth into a slade, and taketh full great hurt. And then he groaneth and moaneth,

Starting point is 03:55:48 and waileth and strugglet, but he never may rise nor help himself by manner of way. And of all this the most mischief that I saw him in was failing of comfort, for he could not turn his face to look upon his loving Lord, which was to him full near, in whom is full comfort, but as a man that was feeble and unwise for the time, he turned his mind to his feeling, and endured in woe, in which he suffered seven great pains. The first was the sore bruising that he took in his falling, which was to him feelable pain. The second was the heaviness of his body. The third was feebleness following from these two. The fourth, that he was blinded in his reason and stunned in his mind, so far forth that almost he had

Starting point is 03:56:46 forgotten his own love. The fifth was that he might not rise. The sixth was most marvelous to me, and that was that he lay all alone. I looked all about and beheld, and far nor near, high nor low, I saw to him no help. The seventh was that the third was that the the place which he lay on was a long, hard, and grievous place. I marvelled how his servant might meekly suffer there all this woe, and I beheld with carefulness to learn if I could perceive in him any fault, or if the Lord should assign to him any blame, and in sooth there was none seen, for only his good will and his great desire was cause of his falling,

Starting point is 03:57:35 and he was unloathful, and as good-will. good inwardly, as when he stood afore his lord, ready to do his will. And right thus continually his loving lord full tenderly beholdeth him. But now, with a double manner of regard, one outward, full meekly and mildly, with great ruth and pity, and this was of the first sight, another inward, more spiritually, and this was showed with a leading of mine understanding into the Lord. in the which I saw him highly rejoicing for the worshipful restoring that he will and shall bring to his servant by his plenteous grace. And this was of that other showing.

Starting point is 03:58:23 And now was my understanding led again into the first sight, both keeping in mind. Then saith this courteous lord in his meaning, Lo, lo, my loved servant! What harm and distress he hath taken. in my service for my love, yea, and for his good will. Is it not fitting that I award him for his affright and his dread, his hurt, and his maim, and all his woe? And not only this, but forleth it not to me to give a gift that shall be better to him, and more worshipful, than his own wholeness should have been, or else methinketh I should do him no grace. And in this an inward spiritual shall,

Starting point is 03:59:09 showing of the Lord's meaning descended into my soul, in which I saw that it behoveth needs to be, by virtue of his great goodness and his own worship, that his dear worthy servant, which he loved so much, should be verily and blissfully rewarded, above that he should have been if he had not fallen. Yea, and so far forth, that his falling and his woe that he hath taken thereby shall be turned into high and overpassing worship and endless bliss. And at this point the showing of the example vanished, and our good Lord led forth mine understanding in sight and in showing of the revelation to the end.

Starting point is 03:59:56 But notwithstanding all this forth-leading, the marveling over the example went never from me, for me thought it was given me for an answer to my desire, and yet could I not tell you, take therein full understanding to my knees at that time. For in the servant that was showed for Adam, as I shall tell, I saw many diverse properties that might in no manner of way be assigned to single Adam. And thus, in that time I stood for much part in unknowing,

Starting point is 04:00:30 for the full understanding of this marvellous example was not given to me in that time. in which mighty example three properties of the revelation be yet greatly hid, and notwithstanding this further forth leading, I saw and understood that every showing is full of secret things left hid. And therefore me behoveth now to tell three properties in which I am somewhat eased, the first is the beginning of teaching that I understood therein in the same time. The second is the inward teaching that I have understood therein afterward. The third, all the whole revelation from the beginning to the end,

Starting point is 04:01:19 that is to say, of this book, which our Lord God of His goodness bringeth oftentimes freely to the sight of mine understanding. And these three are so one, as to my understanding that I cannot nor may dispart them. And by these three as one, I have teaching whereby I ought to believe and trust in our Lord God, that of the same goodness of which he showed it, and for the same end,

Starting point is 04:01:49 right so, of the same goodness and for the same end, he shall declare it to us when it is his will. For twenty years after the same, the time of the showing, save three months, I had teaching inwardly, as I shall tell. It belongeth to thee to take heed, to all the properties and conditions that were showed in the example, though thou thinkth that they be misty, and indifferent to thy sight. I assented willingly, with great desire, and inwardly beheld with heedfulness, all the points and properties that were showed in the same time, as far from, and from the way.

Starting point is 04:02:31 forth as my wits and understanding would serve, beginning my beholding at the Lord and at the servant, and the manner of sitting of the Lord, and the place that he sat on, and the colour of his clothing, and the manner of shape, and his countenance without, and his nobleness and goodness within,

Starting point is 04:02:53 at the manner of standing of the servant, and the place where and how, at his manner of clothing, the colour and shape, at his outward having and at his inward goodness and his unloatfulness. The Lord that sat stately in rest and in peace, I understood that he is God. The servant that stood afore the Lord, I understood that it was showed for Adam,

Starting point is 04:03:22 that is to say, one man was showed that time and his falling, to make it thereby understood how God beholdeth all man, and his falling. And in the sight of God, all man is one man, and one man is all man. This man was hurt in his might and made full feeble, and he was stunned in his understanding, so that he was turned from the beholding of his lord.

Starting point is 04:03:52 But his will was kept whole in God's sight, for his will I saw our Lord commend and approve, but himself was letted and blinded from the knowing of this will, and this is to him great sorrow and grievous distress, for neither doth he see clearly his loving lord, which is to him full meek and mild, nor doth he see truly what himself is in the sight of his loving lord. And will I what, when these two are wisely and truly seen, we shall get rest and peace here in part? and the fullness of the bliss of heaven by his plenteous grace. And this was a beginning of teaching, which I saw in the same time, whereby I might come to know in what manner he beholdeth us in our sin. And then I saw that only pain blameth and punisheth, and our courteous lord comforteth and sorroweth, and ever he is to the soul in glad cheer,

Starting point is 04:04:58 loving and longing to bring us to his bliss. The place that the Lord sat on was simple, on the earth, barren and desert, alone in wilderness. His clothing was ample and full seemly, as falleth to a lord. The colour of his cloth was blue as azure, most sad and fair.

Starting point is 04:05:22 His cheer was merciful. The colour of his face was fair brown, with full, seemly features. His eyes were black, most fair and seemly, showing outward full of lovely pity, and showing within him an high regard, long and broad, all full of endless heavens. And the lovely looking,

Starting point is 04:05:46 wherewith he looked upon his servant continually, and especially in his falling, methought it might melt our hearts for love and burst them in two for joy. The fair-looking showed itself of a seemly mingledness which was marvellous to behold. The one part was Ruth and pity, the other was joy and bliss. The joy and bliss passeth as far Ruth and pity as heaven is above earth. The pity was earthly, and the bliss was heavenly.

Starting point is 04:06:23 The Ruth and pity of the Father was in regard of the falling, of Adam, which is his most loved creature, the joy and bliss was in regard of his dear worthy son, which is even with the father. The merciful beholding of his countenance of love fulfilled all earth and descended down with Adam into hell, with which continuant pity Adam was kept from endless death. And thus mercy and pity dwelleth with mankind unto the time we come up into heaven. But man is blinded in this life, and therefore we may not see our father God as he is.

Starting point is 04:07:09 And what time that he, of his goodness, willeth to show himself to man, he showeth himself homely as man. Notwithstanding, I reason, in verity we ought to know and believe that the father is not man. But his sitting, on the earth, barren and desert is to signify this. He made man's soul to be his own city and his

Starting point is 04:07:35 dwelling place, which is most pleasing to him of all his works. And what time that man was fallen into sorrow and pain, he was not all seemly to serve in that noble office, and therefore our Lord Father would prepare himself no other place, but would sit upon the earth, abiding mankind. which is mingled with earth, till what time by his grace his dear worthy son had brought again his city into the noble fairness with his hard travail. The blueness of the clothing may betokeneth his steadfastness. The brownness of his fair face, with the seemly blackness of the eyes, was most accordant to show his holy soberness.

Starting point is 04:08:24 The length and breadth of his garments, which were fair, flaming about, betokeneth that he hath be closed in him all heavens, and all joy and bliss. And this was showed in a touch of time, where I have said, Mine understanding was led into the Lord, In which inward showing I saw him highly rejoice for the worshipful restoring, that he will and shall bring his servant to by his plenteous grace. And yet I marvelled, beholding the Lord and the servant aforesaid, I saw the Lord sit stately, and the servant standing reverently afore his Lord,

Starting point is 04:09:10 in which servant there is double understanding, one without, another within. outwardly he was clad simply as a labourer which were got ready for his toil and he stood full near the lord not evenly in front of him but in part to one side on the left his clothing was a white curtail single old and all defaced died with sweat of his body straight fitting to him and short as it were an handful beneath the knee thread-belled seeming as it should soon be worn out, ready to be ragged and rent. And of this I marvelled greatly, thinking, This is now an unseemly clothing for the servant that is so greatly loved to stand in, afore so worshipful a lord. And inwardly in him was showed a ground of love, which love that he had to the Lord was even like to the love that the Lord had to him.

Starting point is 04:10:14 The wisdom of the servants saw inwardly that there was one thing to do which should be to the worship of the Lord. And the servant, for love, having no regard to himself, nor to anything that might befall him, hastily he started and ran at the sending of his Lord, to do that thing which was his will and his worship, for it seemed by his outward clothing that he had been a continuant labourer of long-d time, and by the inward sight that I had both of the Lord and the servant, it seemed that he was a new one, that is to say, new beginning to travail, which servant was never sent out before. There was a treasure in the earth which the Lord loved. I marvelled and thought what it might be, and I was answered in mine understanding, it is a food which is delectable and pleasant to the Lord.

Starting point is 04:11:14 for I saw the Lord sit as a man, and I saw neither meat nor drink wherewith to serve him. This was one marvel. Another marvel was that his majestic Lord had no servant but one, and him he sent out. I beheld, thinking what manner of labor it might be that the servant should do, and then I understood that he should do the greatest labor and hardest travail, That is, he should be a gardener, delve and dike, toil and sweat, and turn the earth upside down, and seek the deepness and water the plants in time. And in this he should continue his travail, and make sweet floods to run,

Starting point is 04:12:01 and noble and plenteous fruits to spring, which he should bring afore the Lord to serve him therewith to his desire. and he should never turn again till he had prepared this food already as he knew that it pleased the Lord. And then he should take this food, with the drink in the food, and bear it full worshipfully afore the Lord. And all this time the Lord should sit in the same place, abiding his servant whom he sent out. And yet I marvelled from whence the servant came, for I saw, saw in the Lord that he hath within himself endless life and all manner of goodness, save that treasure that was in the earth. And also that treasure was grounded in the Lord in marvellous

Starting point is 04:12:53 deepness of endless love, but it was not all to his worship, till the servant had thus nobly prepared it, and brought it before him in himself present. And without the Lord was nothing but wilderness. And I understood not all what this example meant, and therefore I marvelled whence the servant came. In the servant is comprehended the second person in the Trinity, and in the servant is comprehended Adam, that is to say, all man. And therefore when I say the son, it meaneth the Godhead which is even with the Father. And when I say the servant, It meaneth Christ's manhood, which is rightful Adam. By the nearness of the servant is understood the son,

Starting point is 04:13:47 and by the standing on the left side is understood Adam. The Lord is the Father, God, the servant is the Son, Christ Jesus. The Holy Ghost is even love which is in them both. When Adam fell, God's son fell. Because of the rightful oneing which had been made in heaven, God's son might not be departed from Adam, for by Adam I understand all man. Adam fell from life to death, into the deep of this wretched world, and after that into hell, God's son fell with Adam into the deep of the

Starting point is 04:14:32 maiden's womb, who was the fairest daughter of Adam, and for this end, To excuse Adam from blame in heaven and in earth, and mightily he fetched him out of hell. By the wisdom and the goodness that was in the servant is understood God's son. By the poor clothing as a labourer standing near the left side, is understood the manhood and Adam, with all the scathe and feebleness that followeth. For in all this our good Lord showed his own son, and Adam but one man. The virtue and the goodness that we have is of Jesus Christ, the feebleness and the blindness that we have is of Adam, which two were showed in the servant.

Starting point is 04:15:25 And thus hath our good Lord Jesus taken upon him all our blame, and therefore our father, nor may nor will, more blame assigned to us than to his own son, dear worthy Christ. Thus was he, the servant, afore his coming into earth, standing ready afore the Father in purpose, till what time he would send him to do that worshipful deed by which mankind was brought again into heaven.

Starting point is 04:15:56 That is to say, notwithstanding that he is God, even with the Father as anent to the Godhead, but in his foreseeing purpose that he would be man, to save man in fulfilling of his father's will so he stood afore his father as a servant willingly taking upon him all our charge and then he started full readily at the father's will and anon he fell full low into the maiden's womb having no regard to himself nor to his hard pains the white kirtle is the flesh the singleness is that there was right nought atwixt the godhead and manhood the straightness is poverty the end is of adam's wearing The defacing of sweat of Adam's travail.

Starting point is 04:16:51 The shortness showeth the servant's labour. And thus I saw the son saying in his meaning, Lo, my dear father, I stand before thee in Adam's curtail, All ready to start and to run. I would be in the earth, and do thy worship, when it is thy will to send me. How long shall I desire? full soothfastly wist the son when it would be the father's will and how long he should desire.

Starting point is 04:17:23 That is to say he whist it and end the Godhead, for he is the wisdom of the Father, wherefore this question was showed with understanding of the manhood of Christ. For all mankind that shall be saved by the sweet incarnation and blissful passion of Christ, all is the manhood of Christ. for he is the head and we be his members, to which members the day and the time is unknown when every passing woe and sorrow shall have an end, and the everlasting joy and bliss shall be fulfilled,

Starting point is 04:18:02 which day and time for to see all the company of heaven longeth. And all that shall be under heaven that shall come hither, their way is by longing and desire. which desire and longing was showed in the servant's standing afore the Lord, or else thus in the Son standing afore the Father in Adam's curtail, for the longing and desire of all mankind that shall be saved appeared in Jesus. For Jesus is all that shall be saved, and all that shall be saved is Jesus, and all of the charity of God, with obedience,

Starting point is 04:18:45 meekness and patience and virtues that belong to us. Also in this marvellous example I have teaching with me, as it were, the beginning of an ABC, whereby I have some understanding of our Lord's meaning. For the secret things of the revelation be hid therein, notwithstanding that all the showings are full of secret things, the sitting of the Father, between the Lord's, His Godhead, that is to say, by showing of rest and peace, for in the Godhead may be no travail, and that he showed himself as Lord betokeneth his governance to our manhood.

Starting point is 04:19:31 The standing of the servant betokeneth travail, on one side and on the left, betokeneth that he was not all worthy to stand even right afore the Lord. His starting was the Godhead, and the running was the manhood, for the Godhead started from the Father into the maiden's womb, falling into the taking of our kind. And in this falling he took great sore, the saw that he took was our flesh, in which he had also swiftly feeling of deadly pains,

Starting point is 04:20:08 that he stood a dread before the Lord, and not even right, betokeneth that his clothing was not seemly to stand in even right afore the Lord, nor that he might not, nor should not, be his office while he was a labourer, nor also he might not sit in rest and peace with the Lord, till he had won his peace rightfully with his hard travail, and that he stood by the left side, betokenedeth that the father left his own son willingly in the manhood

Starting point is 04:20:41 to suffer all man's pains without sparing of him. By that his curtail was in point to be ragged and rent, his understood the blows, the scourgings, the thorns and the nails, the drawing and the dragging, his tender flesh rending. As I saw in some part before how the flesh was rent from the skull, falling in pieces until the time when the bleeding ceased, and then it began to dry again, cleaving to the bone. And by the struggling and writhing, groaning and moaning,

Starting point is 04:21:20 he's understood that he might never rise almightyly from the time that he has fallen into the maiden's womb till his body was slain and dead, he yielding the soul into the father's hands with all mankind for whom he was sent. And at this point he began first, to show his might, for he went into hell, and when he was there he raised up the great root out of the deep deepness which rightfully was knit to him in high heaven. The body was in the grave till Easter morrow, and from that time he lay never more, for then was rightfully ended,

Starting point is 04:22:03 the struggling and the writhing, the groaning and the moaning, and our foul deadly flesh that God's took on him, which was Adam's old curtail, straight, worn bear, and short, was then by our saviour made fair, new white and bright, and of endless cleanness, loose and long, fairer and richer, than was then the clothing which before I saw on the father, for that clothing was blue, but Christ's clothing is coloured now of a fair seemly melder, which is so marvellous that I can it not describe, for it is all of very worships. Now sitteth not the sun on earth in wilderness, but he sitteth in his noblest seat, which he made in heaven most to his pleasing. Now standeth not the son afore the father as a servant afore the Lord dreadingly,

Starting point is 04:23:06 clad in part naked, but he standeth afore the Father even right, richly clad in blissful largeness, with a crown upon his head of precious richness. For it was showed that we be his crown, which crown is the joy of the Father, the worship of the Son, the satisfying of the Holy Ghost, and endless, marvellous bliss to all that be in heaven. Now standeth not the son afore the father on the left side as a labourer, but he sitteth on his father's right hand, in endless rest and peace. But it is not meant that the son sitteth on the right hand, side by side, as one man sitteth by another in this life, for there is no such sitting as to my sight in the Trinity,

Starting point is 04:24:03 but he sitteth on his father's right hand, that is to say, in the highest nobleness of the father's joys. Now is the spouse, God's son, in peace with his loved wife, which is the fair maiden of endless joy. Now sitteth the son, very God and man, in his city in rest and peace, which city his father hath adight to him of his endless purpose,

Starting point is 04:24:34 and the Father in the Son and the Holy Ghost in the Father and in the Son. End of Chapter 51. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 52 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich and end certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations. Chapter 52. We have now matter of mourning, for our sin is cause of Christ pains, and we have, lastingly, matter of joy, for endless love made him to suffer. And thus I saw that God rejoiceth

Starting point is 04:25:30 that He is our father, and God rejoiceth that He is our mother, and God rejoiceth that he is our very spouse, and our soul is his loved wife. And Christ, and Christ, rejoiceth that he is our brother, and Jesus rejoiceth that he is our saviour. These are five high joys, as I understand, in which he willeth that we enjoy, Him praising, Him thanking, Him loving, Him endlessly blessing. All that shall be saved, we have in us for the time of this life, a marvellous mingling, both of Weal and Woe. We have in us our Lorde.

Starting point is 04:26:13 Lord Jesus uprisen, we have in us the wretchedness and the mischief of Adam's falling, dying. By Christ we are steadfastly kept, and by His grace touching us we are raised into sure trust of salvation. And by Adam's falling we are so broken, in our feeling, in diverse manners by sins and by sundry pains, in which we are made dark, that scarcely we can take any comfort. But in our intent we abide in God, and faithfully trust to have mercy and grace, and this is his own working in us, and of his goodness he openeth the eye of our understanding by which we have sight, sometime more and sometimes less, according as God giveth ability to receive. And now we are raised into the one, and now we are suffered to fall into the other.

Starting point is 04:27:13 And thus is this medley so marvellous in us that scarcely we know of ourselves, or of our even Christian, in what way we stand, for the marvellousness of this sundry feeling. But that same holy assent that we assent to God when we feel him, truly setting our will to be with him, with all our heart and with all our soul, and with all our soul. our might. And then we hate and despise our evil stirrings, and all that might be occasion of sin, spiritual and bodily, and yet nevertheless, when this sweetness is hid, we fall again into blindness, and so into woe and tribulation, in diverse manners. But then is this our comfort, that we know in our faith that by virtue of Christ, which is our keeper, we assent never there to,

Starting point is 04:28:07 but we groan there against, and dur on in pain and woe, praying unto that time that he showeth him again to us. And thus we stand in this medley all the days of our life, but he willeth that we trust that he is lastingly with us, and that in three manner, he is with us in heaven, very man in his own person, us up-drawing, and that was showed in the showing of the spiritual thirst. And he is with us in earth, us leading, and that was showed in the third showing, where I saw God in a point. And he is with us in our soul,

Starting point is 04:28:50 endlessly dwelling, us ruling and keeping, and that was showed in the sixteenth showing, as I shall tell. And thus in the servant was showed the scathe and blindness of Adam's foretion, falling, and in the servant was showed the wisdom and goodness of God's son, and in the Lord was showed the Ruth and pity of Adam's woe, and in the Lord was showed the high nobility and the

Starting point is 04:29:18 endless worship that mankind is come to by the virtue of the passion and death of his dear worthy son. And therefore mightily he joyeth in his falling, for the high raising and fullness of bliss that mankind is come to, overpassing that we should have had if he had not fallen. And thus to see this overpassing nobleness was mine understanding led into God in the same time that I saw the servant fall. And thus we have now matter of mourning, for our sin is cause of Christ's pains, and we have, lastingly, matter of joy, for endless love made him to suffer. and therefore the creature that seeth and feeleth the working of love by grace,

Starting point is 04:30:09 hateth naught but sin, for of all things to my sight, love and hate are the hardest and most unmeasurable contraries. And notwithstanding all this, I saw and understood in our Lord's meaning, that we may not in this life keep us from sin, as wholly in full cleanness as we shall be in heaven. but we may well by grace keep us from the sins which would lead us to endless pains as Holy Church teacheth us, and eschew venial ones reasonably up to our might. And if we by our blindness and our wretchedness any time fall,

Starting point is 04:30:51 we should readily rise, knowing the sweet touching of grace, and with all our will amend us upon the teaching of Holy Church, according as the sin is grievous, and go forthwith to God in love, and neither on the one side fall over low, inclining to despair, nor on the other side be over reckless, as if we made no matter of it, but nakedly acknowledge our feebleness, finding that we may not stand a twinkling of an eye, but by keeping of grace, and reverently cleave to God on him only trusting.

Starting point is 04:31:30 for after one wise is the beholding by god and after another wise is the beholding by man for it belongeth to man meekly to accuse himself and it belongeth to the proper goodness of our lord god courteously to excuse man and these be two parts that were showed in the double manner of regard with which the lord beheld the falling of his loved servant the one was showed outward, very meekly and mildly, with great ruth and pity, and that of endless love. And right thus willeth our Lord that we accuse ourselves, earnestly and truly seeing and knowing our falling, and all the harms that come thereof, seeing and learning that we can never restore it. And therewith that we earnestly and truly see and know his everlasting love that he hath to us, and his plenteous mercy. And thus graciously to see and know both together is the meek accusing that our Lord asketh of us, and himself worketh it where it is. And this is the lower

Starting point is 04:32:46 part of man's life, and it was showed in the Lord's outward manner of regard, in which showing I saw two parts. The one is the rueful falling of man, the other is the worshipful falling of man, the other is the worshipful satisfaction that our Lord hath made for man. The other manner of regard was showed inward, and that was more highly and all fully one, for the life and the virtue that we have in the lower part is of the higher, and it cometh down to us from out of the natural love of the high self, by the working of grace. Atwicks the life of the one

Starting point is 04:33:27 And the life of the other There is right naught For it is all one love Which one blessed love Hath now in us double working For in the lower part Our pains and passions Mercies and forgiveness

Starting point is 04:33:42 And such other that are profitable But in the higher part Are none of these But all one high love And marvellous joy In which joy all pains are highly restored. And in this time our Lord showeth not only our excusing from blame in his beholding of our higher part, but the worshipful nobility that he shall bring us to

Starting point is 04:34:09 by the working of grace in our lower part, turning all our blame that is therein from our falling into endless worship when we be won to the high self above. Chapter 52. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 53 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. Annent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations, chapter 53. In every soul that shall be saved is a godly will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.

Starting point is 04:35:03 Ere that he made us he loved us, and when we were made, we loved him. And I saw that he willeth that we understand, He taketh not harder the falling of any creature That shall be saved than he took the falling of Adam, Which we know was endlessly loved and securely kept In the time of all his need, And now is blissfully restored in high overpassing joy,

Starting point is 04:35:32 for our lord is so good so gentle and so courteous that he may never assign default in those in whom he shall ever be blessed and praised and in this that i have now told was my desire in part answered and my great difficulty some deal eased by the lovely gracious showing of our good lord in which showing i saw and understood full surely that in every soul that shall be saved is a godly will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall, which will is so good that it may never will evil, but evermore continually it willeth good, and worketh good in the sight of God. Therefore our Lord willeth that we know this in the faith and the belief, and especially that we have all this blessed will whole and safe in our Lord Jesus. Christ. For that same kind that heaven shall be filled with behoveth needs of God's rightfulness, so to have been knit and wand to him, that therein was kept a substance which might never,

Starting point is 04:36:48 nor should, be parted from him, and that through his own good will in his endless foreseeing purpose. But notwithstanding this rightful knitting and this endless wanting, yet the redemption and the again buying of mankind is needful and speedful in everything as it is done for the same intent and to the same end that holy church in our faith us teacheth for i saw that god began never to love mankind for right the same that mankind shall be an endless bliss fulfilling the joy of god as anent his works Right so the same, mankind hath been in the foresight of God, Known and loved from without beginning in his rightful intent. By the endless ascent of the full accord of all the Trinity, the mid-person willed to be ground and head of this fair kind,

Starting point is 04:37:52 Out of whom we be all come, In whom we be all enclosed, into whom we shall all wend, in him finding our full heaven in everlasting joy by the foreseeing purpose of all the blessed Trinity from without beginning for ere that he made us he loved us and when we were made we loved him and this is a love that is made to our kindly substance

Starting point is 04:38:23 by virtue of the kindly substantial goodness of the Holy Ghost mighty in reason by virtue of the might of the father and wise in mind by virtue of the wisdom of the son and thus is man's soul made by God and in the same point knit to God and thus I understand that man's soul is made of naught That is to say it is made, but of naught that is made. And thus, when God should make man's body, He took the clay of earth, Which is a matter mingled and gathered of all bodily things, And thereof he made man's body.

Starting point is 04:39:10 But to the making of man's soul, He would take right naught, but made it. And thus is the nature made rightfully won to the maker, which is substantial nature not made, that is, God, and therefore it is that there may nor shall be right naught atwix God and man's soul. And in this endless love man's soul is kept whole, as the matter of the revelations signifieth and showeth,

Starting point is 04:39:45 in which endless love we be led and kept of God and never shall be lost. For he willeth we be aware that our soul is a life, which life of his goodness and his grace shall last in heaven without end, Him loving, Him thanking, Him praising. And write the same that we shall be without end, The same we were treasured in God and hid,

Starting point is 04:40:14 Known and loved from without beginning. wherefore he would have us understand that the noblest thing that ever he made is mankind, and the fullest substance and the highest virtue is the blessed soul of Christ. And furthermore he would have us understand that his dear worthy soul of manhood was preciously knit to him in the making by him of manhood's substantial nature, which not is so subtle and so mighty that it, man's soul, is oneed into God, in which oneing it is made endlessly holy. Furthermore, he would have us know that all the souls that shall be saved in heaven without end

Starting point is 04:41:04 are knit and wand in this oneing and made holy in his holiness. End of chapter 53. This recording is. in the public domain. Chapter 54 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich and ent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations.

Starting point is 04:41:41 Chapter 54 Faith is naught else but a right understanding with true belief and sure trust of our being that we are in God and God is in us whom we see not. And because of this great endless love that God hath to all mankind, he maketh no disparting in love between the blessed soul of Christ and the least soul that shall be saved. For it is full easy to believe and to trust

Starting point is 04:42:13 that the dwelling of the blessed soul of Christ is full high in the glorious Godhead, and verily, as I understand in our Lord's signifying, where the blessed soul of Christ is, there is the substance of all the souls that shall be saved by Christ. Highly ought we to rejoice that God dwelleth in our soul, and much more highly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwelleth in God, our soul is made to be God's dwelling place,

Starting point is 04:42:45 and the dwelling place of the soul is God, which is unmade. And high understanding it is, inwardly to see and know that God, which is our maker, dwelleth in our soul. And an higher understanding it is, inwardly to see and to know that our soul that is made dwelleth in God's substance, of which substance, God, we are that we are. And I saw no difference between God and our substance, but as it were all God, and yet mine 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.

Starting point is 04:43:43 of the Trinity is our mother, in whom we are all enclosed. The high goodness of the Trinity is our Lord, and in Him we are enclosed, and He in us. We are enclosed in the Father, and we are enclosed in the Son, and we are enclosed in the Holy Ghost, and the Father is enclosed in us, and the Son is enclosed in us, and the Holy Ghost is enclosed in us. All mightiness, all wisdom, all goodness, one God, one Lord. And our faith is a virtue that cometh of our nature substance into our sent soul by the Holy Ghost, in which all our virtues come to us, for without that no man may receive virtue. For it is naught else but a right understanding with true belief and sure trust of our being,

Starting point is 04:44:47 that we are in God and God in us whom we see not. And this virtue, with all other that God hath ordained to us coming therein, worketh in us great things. For Christ's merciful working is in us, and we graciously accord to him through the gifts and the virtues of the Holy Ghost. This working makeeth that we are Christ's children and Christian in living. End of Chapter 54. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 55 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes.

Starting point is 04:45:37 Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. Annent Certain Points in the foregoing 14 Revelations, Chapter 55. Christ is our way. Mankind shall be restored from double death. And thus Christ is our way, us surely leading in his laws, and Christ in his body mightily beareth us up into heaven. For I saw that Christ,

Starting point is 04:46:06 us all having in him that shall be saved by him, worshipfully presenteth his father in heaven with us, which present full thankfully his father received, and courteously giveth it to his son, Jesus Christ, which gift and working is joy to the Father and bliss to the Son, and pleasing to the Holy Ghost. And of all things that belong to us to do, it is most pleasing to our Lord that we enjoy in this joy,

Starting point is 04:46:39 which is in the Blessed Trinity in virtue of our salvation. And this was seen in the ninth showing, where it speaketh more of this matter. And notwithstanding all our feeling of woe or wheel, God willeth that we should understand and hold by faith that we are more verily in heaven than in earth. Our faith cometh of the natural love of our soul, and of the clear light of our reason,

Starting point is 04:47:10 and of the steadfast mind which we have from God in our first making, and what time that our soul is inspired into our body, in which we are made sensual, so soon mercy and grace begin to work, having of us care and keeping with pity and love, in which working the Holy Ghost formeth in our faith, hope that we shall come again up above to our substance, into the virtue of Christ, increased and fulfilled through the Holy Ghost. thus i understood that the sense soul is grounded in nature in mercy and in grace which ground enablet us to receive gifts that lead us to endless life for i saw full assuredly that our substance is in god and also i saw that in our sense soul god is for in the selfsame point that our soul is made sensual in the selfsame point is the city of god is the city of god is the city of god is the selfsame point is the city of god ordained to him from without beginning into which seat he cometh and never shall remove from it for God is never out of the soul in which he dwelleth blissfully without end and this was seen in the sixteenth showing where it saith the place that Jesus taketh in our soul he shall never remove from it and all the gifts that God may give to creatures he hath given to his son

Starting point is 04:48:44 Jesus for us, which gifts he, dwelling in us, hath enclosed in him unto the time that we be waxen and grown, our soul with our body, and our body with our soul, either of them taking help of other, till we be brought up into stature as nature worketh. And then, in the ground of nature, with working of mercy, the Holy Ghost graciously inspireth into us gifts leading to endless life. And thus was my understanding led of God to see in him and to understand, to perceive and to know

Starting point is 04:49:24 that our soul is made Trinity, like to the unmade blissful Trinity, known and loved from without beginning, and in the making, won to the maker, as it is aforesaid. This sight was full sweet and marvellous to behold,

Starting point is 04:49:43 peaceable, restful, sure and delectable. And because of the worshipful wanting that was thus made by God betwixt the soul and body, it behoveth needs to be that mankind shall be restored from double death, which restoring might never be until the time that the second person in the Trinity had taken the lower part of man's nature, to whom the highest part was won in the first making. and these two parts were in Christ, the higher and the lower, which is but one soul, the higher part was one in peace with God, in full joy and bliss, the lower part, which is sense nature, suffered for the salvation of mankind. And these two parts in Christ

Starting point is 04:50:36 were seen and felt in the eighth showing, in which my body was fulfilled with feeling and of Christ's passion and his death. And furthermore with this was a subtle feeling and privy inward sight of the high part which I was showed in the same time when I could not, even for the friendly proffer made to me, look up into heaven. And that was because of that mighty beholding that I had of the inward life, which inward life is that high substance, that precious soul of Christ, which is endlessly rejoicing in the Godhead. End of Chapter 55. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 04:51:28 Chapter 56 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. Annent Certain Points in the foregoing 14 revelations, Chapter 56. is nearer to us than our own soul, we can never come to full knowing of God till we know first clearly our own soul. And thus I saw full surely that it is readier to us to come to the knowing of God than to know our own soul, for our soul is so deep grounded in God and so endlessly treasured

Starting point is 04:52:15 that we may not come to the knowing thereof till we have first knowing of God, which is the maker, to whom it is won. But, notwithstanding, I saw that we have, for fullness, to desire wisely and truly to know our own soul, whereby we are learned to seek it where it is, and that is in God. And thus by gracious leading of the Holy Ghost, we should know them both in one, whether we be stirred to know God or our soul, both these stirrings are good and good. true. God is nearer to us than our own soul, for he is the ground in whom our soul standeth, and he is the mean that keepeth the substance and the sense nature together, so that they shall never depart, for our soul sitteth in God in very rest, and our soul standeth in God in very

Starting point is 04:53:15 strength, and our soul is kindly rooted in God, in endless love, and therefore if we will have knowledge of our soul, and communing and dalliance therewith, it behoveth to seek unto our Lord God in whom it is enclosed. And of this enclosement I saw and understood more in the sixteenth showing, as I shall tell. And as anent our substance and our sense part, Both together may rightly be called our soul, and that is because of the wanting that they have in God. The worshipful city that our Lord Jesus siteth in is our sense soul, in which he is enclosed, and our kindly substance is enclosed in Jesus with the blessed soul of Christ sitting in rest in the Godhead. And I saw full surely that it behoveth needs to be that we should be in longing and in

Starting point is 04:54:17 penance unto the time that we be led so deep into God that we verily and truly know our own soul. And truly I saw that into this high deepness our good Lord himself leadeth us in the same love that he made us, and in the same love that he brought us by mercy and grace through virtue of his blessed passion. And notwithstanding all this, we may never come to full knowing of God till we know first clearly our own soul, for until the time that our soul is in its full powers, we cannot be all fully holy, and that is until the time that our sense soul,

Starting point is 04:55:01 by the virtue of Christ's passion, be brought up to the substance, with all the prophets of our tribulation that our Lord shall make us to get by mercy and grace. I had in part experience of the touch of the touch of, of God in the soul, and it is grounded in nature. That is to say, our reason is grounded in God, which is substantial naturehood. Out of this substantial naturehood, mercy and grace springeth and spreadeth into us, working all things in fulfilling of our joy. These are our ground

Starting point is 04:55:41 in which we have our increase and our fulfilling. These be three properties. in one goodness, and where one worketh, all work in the things which be now belonging to us. God willeth that we understand this, desiring with all our hearts to have knowing of them more and more unto the time that we be fulfilled. For fully to know them is naught else but endless joy and bliss that we shall have in heaven, which God willeth should be begun here in knowing of his love. for only in our reason we may not profit but if we have evenly therewith mind and love nor only in our nature ground that we have in god we may not be saved but if we have coming of the same ground mercy and grace for of these three working altogether we receive all our goodness of the which the first gifts are goods of nature for in our faiths our first gifts are goods of nature for in our faiths we are our faiths we receive all our goodness for in our faiths we are our first making, God gave us as full goods as we might receive in our spirit alone, and also greater goods,

Starting point is 04:56:55 but his foreseeing purpose in his endless wisdom willed that we should be double. End of Chapter 56. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 57 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. by Julian of Norwich. Anent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations, chapter 57. In Christ our two natures are united, and anent our substance he made us noble, and so rich that evermore we work his will and his worship. Where I say we, it meaneth man that shall be saved. For soothly I saw that we are that which he loveth, and do that which him pleaseth,

Starting point is 04:58:00 lastingly without any stinting, and that by virtue of the great riches and of the high noble virtues by measure come to our soul what time it is knit to our body, in which knitting we are made sensual. And thus in our substance we are full, and in our sense soul we fail,

Starting point is 04:58:24 which failing God will restore and fulfill by working of mercy and grace plenteously flowing into us out of his own nature goodness. And thus his nature goodness maketh that mercy and grace work in us, and the nature goodness that we have of him enablet us to receive the working

Starting point is 04:58:47 of mercy and grace. I saw that our nature is in God whole, in which whole nature of man. manhood, he maketh diversities flowing out of him to work his will, whom nature keepeth, and mercy and grace restoreth and fulfilleth. And of these none shall perish. For our nature that is the higher part is knit to God in the making, and God is knit to our nature that is the lower part in our flesh-taking. And thus in Christ, our two natures are one. And thus in Christ, our two natures are for the Trinity is comprehended in Christ, in whom our higher part is grounded and rooted,

Starting point is 04:59:34 and our lower part the second person hath taken, which nature first to him was made ready. For I saw full surely that all the works that God hath done, or ever shall, were fully known to him, and are foreseen from without beginning, and for love he made mankind, and for the same love would be man. The next good that we receive is our faith in which our profiting beginneth, and it cometh out of the high riches of our nature substance into our sensual soul, and it is grounded in us through the nature goodness of God, by the working of mercy and grace. And thereof come all other goods by which we are led and saved, for the commandments of God come therein, in which we ought to have two manners of understanding. The one is that we ought to understand and

Starting point is 05:00:35 know which are his biddings to love and to keep them. The other is that we ought to know his forbiddings, to hate and to refuse them, for in these two is all our working comprehended. Also in our faith come the seven sacraments, each following other, in order as God hath ordained them to us. and all manner of virtues. For the same virtues that we have received of our substance, given to us in nature by the goodness of God, the same virtues by the working of mercy are given to us in grace through the Holy Ghost, renewed,

Starting point is 05:01:17 which virtues and gifts are treasured to us in Jesus Christ, for in that same time that God knitted himself to our body in the virgin's womb, he took our sensual soul, in which taking, he, as all having enclosed in him, won it to our substance, in which oneing he was perfect man, for Christ having knit in him each man that shall be saved is perfect man. Thus our lady is our mother, in whom we are all enclosed and of her born in Christ, for she that is mother of our saviour is mother of all that shall be saved in our saviour. And our saviour is our very mother in whom we be endlessly born, and never shall come out of him. Plaintiously and fully and sweetly was this showed,

Starting point is 05:02:16 and it is spoken of in the first, where it saith, we are all in him enclosed, and he is enclosed, and he is enclosed in us, and that enclosing of him in us is spoken of in the sixteenth showing, where it saith he sitteth in our soul. For it is his good pleasure to reign in our understanding blissfully, and sit in our soul restfully, and to dwell in our soul endlessly, us all working into him, in which working he willeth that we be his helpers, giving to him, giving to him all, our attending, learning his laws, keeping his laws, desiring that all be done that he doeth, truly trusting in Him. For soothly I saw that our substance is in God. End of Chapter 57. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 58 of Revelations of Divine

Starting point is 05:03:23 Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. Divine Love by Julian of Norwich, and in certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations. Chapter 58 All our life is in three, nature, mercy, grace. The high might of the Trinity is our Father, and the deep wisdom of the Trinity is our mother, and the great love of the Trinity is our Lord. God, the Blessed Trinity, which is everlasting being, right as he is endless from without beginning, right so it was in his purpose endless to make mankind.

Starting point is 05:04:12 Which fair kind first was prepared to his own son, the second person, and when he would by full accord of all the Trinity, he made us all at once, and in our making he knit us and wanders to himself. by which oneing we are kept as clear and as noble as we were made. By the virtue of the same precious oneing we love our maker and seek him, praise him and thank him and endlessly enjoy him. And this is the work which is wrought continually in every soul that shall be saved, which is the godly will aforesaid.

Starting point is 05:04:56 And thus in our making, God or God, or not, Almighty is our nature's father, and God, all wisdom, is our nature's mother, with the love and the goodness of the Holy Ghost, which is all one God, one Lord. And in the knitting and the oneing, he is our very true spouse, and we his loved wife, his fair maiden, with which wife he is never displeased, for he saith, I love thee, and thou lovest me, and our love shall never be departed in two. I beheld the working of all the blessed Trinity, in which beholding I saw and understood these three properties, the property of the fatherhood, the property of the motherhood, and the property of the Lordhood in one God. In our Father-Almight, in our Father-A-Worthy. In our

Starting point is 05:05:54 Father Almighty, we have our keeping and our bliss as an entire natural substance, which is to us by our making without beginning. And in the second person, in skill and wisdom, we have our keeping as anent our sense soul, our restoring and our saving, for he is our mother, brother and saviour, and in our good Lord the Holy Ghost we have our rewarding and our meed-giving for our living and our travail, and endless overpassing of all that we desire in his marvellous courtesy of his high, plenteous grace. For all our life is in three, in the first we have our being, in the second we have our increasing, and in the third we have our fulfilling.

Starting point is 05:06:50 The first is nature, the second is mercy, and the third is grace. For the first, I understood that the high might of the Trinity is our father, and the deep wisdom of the Trinity is our mother, and the great love of the Trinity is our Lord. And all this we have in knowledge,

Starting point is 05:07:13 nature and in the making of our substance. And furthermore, I saw that the second person, which is our mother, as annents the substance, that same dear worthy person, is become our mother as anence the cent soul. For we are double by God's making, that is to say, substantial and sensual. Our substance is the higher part, which we have in our Father, God Almighty, and the second person of the Trinity is our mother in nature in making of our substance,

Starting point is 05:07:51 in whom we are grounded and rooted. And he is our mother in mercy in taking of our sense part, and thus our mother is to us in diverse manners working, in whom our parts are kept undisparted. For in our mother Christ we profit and increase, And in mercy he reformeth us and restoreth, And by the virtue of his passion and his death and uprising,

Starting point is 05:08:22 Woneth us to our substance. Thus worketh our mother in mercy to all his children, Which are to him yielding and obedient. And grace worketh with mercy, And specially in two properties, as it was showed, Which working belongeth to the third person, the Holy Ghost. He worketh rewarding and giving. Rewarding is a large giving of truth that the Lord doeth to him that hath travailed, and giving is a courteous working which he doeth freely of grace,

Starting point is 05:09:02 fulfilling and overpassing all that is deserved of creatures. Thus in our Father, God Almighty, we have our being, and in our Mother of Mercy we have our reforming and restoring, in whom our parts are one and all made perfect man, and by reward yielding and giving in grace of the Holy Ghost we are fulfilled. And our substance is in our Father, God Almighty, and our substance is in our Mother, God all wisdom, and our substance is in our Lord the Holy Ghost, God all goodness. For our substance is whole in each person of the Trinity, which is one God.

Starting point is 05:09:52 And our sense soul is only in the second person, Christ Jesus, in whom is the Father and the Holy Ghost. And in Him and by Him we are mightily taken out of hell, and out of the wretchedness in earth, worshipfully brought up into heaven and blissfully woned to our substance, increased in riches and in nobleness by all the virtues of Christ,

Starting point is 05:10:21 and by the grace and working of the Holy Ghost. End of Chapter 58. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 59 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich and ent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations Chapter 59

Starting point is 05:10:57 Jesus Christ that doeth good against evil is our very mother We have our being of him where the ground of motherhood beginneth with all the sweet keeping by love that endlessly followeth. And all this bliss we have by mercy and grace, which manner of bliss we might never have had nor known, but if that property of goodness which is God had been contraried, whereby we have this bliss. For wickedness hath been suffered to rise contrary to the goodness,

Starting point is 05:11:37 and the goodness of mercy and grace contraried against the wickedness, and turned all to goodness and to worship, to all these that shall be saved. For it is the property in God which doeth good against evil. Thus Jesus Christ, that doeth good against evil, is our very mother. We have our being of him, where the ground of motherhood begineth,

Starting point is 05:12:06 with all the sweet keeping of love that endlessly followeth. As verily as God is our father, so verily God is our mother, and that showed he in all, and especially in these sweet words where he saith, I it am. That is to say, I it am, the might and the goodness of the fatherhood, I it am, the wisdom of the motherhood, I it am the light and the grace that is all blessed love. I it am the Trinity. I it am the unity.

Starting point is 05:12:48 I am the sovereign goodness of all manner of things. I am that maketh thee to love. I am that maketh thee to long. I it am the endless fulfilling of all true desires. there the soul is highest, noblest and worthiest, where it is lowest, meekest and mildest. And out of this substantial ground we have all our virtues in our sense part by gift of nature, by helping and speeding of mercy and grace, without the which we may not profit. Our High Father, God Almighty, which is being, he knew and and loved us from afore any time, of which knowing, in his marvellous deep charity and the foreseeing counsel of all the Blessed Trinity, he willed that the second person should become

Starting point is 05:13:49 our mother. Our father willeth, our mother worketh, our good Lord the Holy Ghost confirmeth, and therefore it belongeth to us to love our God in whom we have our being, Him reverently thanking and praising for our making, mightily praying to our mother for mercy and pity, and to our Lord the Holy Ghost for help and grace. For in these three is all our life, nature, mercy, grace, whereof we have meekness and mildness, patience and pity, and hating of sin and of wickedness, for it belongeth properly to virtue, to hate sin and wickedness.

Starting point is 05:14:40 And thus is Jesus our very mother in nature by virtue of our first making, and he is our very mother in grace by taking our nature made. All the fair working and all the sweet natural office of dear worthy motherhood is impropriated to the second person, for in him we have this godly will whole and safe without end, both in nature and in grace, of his own proper goodness. I understood three manners of beholding

Starting point is 05:15:18 of motherhood in God. The first is grounded in our nature's making, the second is taking of our nature, and there beginneth the motherhood of grace. The third is motherhood of working, and therein is a forth spreading by the same grace, of length and breadth and height, and of deepness without end. And all is one love. End of chapter 59. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 60 of Revelations of Divine Love. read for librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich and ent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations

Starting point is 05:16:17 Chapter 60 The kind loving mother But now behoveth to say a little more of this forth spreading As I understand in the meaning of our Lord How that we be brought again by the motherhood of mercy and grace into our nature's place, where that we were made by the motherhood of nature love, which kindly love it never leaveth us. Our kind mother, our gracious mother, for that he would all wholly become our mother in all things,

Starting point is 05:16:54 he took the ground of his works full low and full mildly in the maiden's womb, and that he showed in the first showing where he brought that meek maid afore the eye of mine understanding in the simple stature as she was when she conceived. That is to say, our high God is sovereign wisdom of all. In this low place he arrayed and dight him full ready in our poor flesh, himself to do the service and the office of motherhood in all things. The mother's service is nearest, readiest and surest, nearest, for it is most of nature, readiest for it is most of love, and surest for it is most of truth.

Starting point is 05:17:50 This office none might nor could nor ever should do to the full, but he alone. We know that all our mother's bearing is bearing of us to pain and to dying. And what is this but that our very mother, Jesus, he, all love, beareth us to joy and to endless living? Blessed may he be. Thus he sustaineth us within himself in love, and travailed unto the full time that he would suffer the shy. throes, and the most grievous pains that ever were or ever shall be, and died at the last. And when he had finished, and so borne us to bliss, yet might not all this make full content to his marvellous love, and that showeth he in these high over-passing words of love,

Starting point is 05:18:49 if I might suffer more, I would suffer more. He might no more die, but he would not stint of working, wherefore then it behoveth him to feed us, for the dear worthy love of motherhood hath made him debtor to us. The mother may give her child suck of her milk, but our precious mother, Jesus, he may feed us with himself, and doeth it, full courteously and full tenderly, with the blessed sacrament that is precious, food of my life, and with all the sweet sacraments he sustaineth us full mercifully and graciously. And so meant he in this blessed word where that he said, It is I that Holy Church preacheth thee and teacheth thee,

Starting point is 05:19:44 That is to say, all the health and life of sacraments, All the virtue and grace of my word, All the goodness that is ordained in Holy Church for thee, it is I. The mother may lay the child tenderly to her breast, but our tender mother, Jesus, he may homely lead us into his blessed breast by his sweet open side, and show therein part of the Godhead and the joys of heaven, with spiritual sureness of endless bliss. And that showed he in the tenth showing, giving the same understanding, in this sweet word where he saith lo how i loved thee looking unto the wound in his side rejoicing

Starting point is 05:20:35 this fair lovely word mother it is so sweet and so close in nature of itself that it may not verily be said of none but of him and to her that is very mother of him and of all To the property of motherhood belongeth natural love, wisdom, and knowing, and it is good, for though it be so that our bodily forth-bringing be but little, low, and simple, in regard of our spiritual forth-bringing, yet it is he that doeth it, in the creatures by whom that is done. The kindly loving mother that witeth and knoweth the need of her child, she keep her, at full tenderly, as the nature and condition of motherhood will. And as it waxeth in age, she changeth her working, but not her love. And when it is waxen of more age, she suffereth that it be beaten in breaking down of vices, to make the child receive virtues and

Starting point is 05:21:41 graces. This working, with all that be fair and good, our Lord doeth it in them, by who it is done. Thus he is our mother in nature by the working of grace in the lower part for love of the higher part. And he willeth that we know this, for he will have all our love fastened to him. And in this I saw that all our duty that we owe by God's bidding to fatherhood and motherhood, for reason of God's fatherhood and motherhood, is full of God's fatherhood. fulfilled in true loving of God, which blessed love Christ worketh in us. And this was showed in all the revelations, and especially in the high plenteous words where he saith, it is I that thou lovest. End of chapter 60. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 05:22:51 Chapter 61 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich and end certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations. Chapter 61. By the assay of this falling, we shall have an high, marvellous knowing of love in God without end, for strong and marvelous is that love which may not nor will not be broken for trespass.

Starting point is 05:23:27 And in our spiritual forth-bringing, he useth more tenderness of keeping without any likeness, by as much as our soul is of more price in his sight. He kindleth our understanding, he directeth our ways, he easeth our conscience, he comforteth our soul, he lighteneth our heart, and giveth us in part knowing and believing in his blissful godhead with gracious mind in his sweet manhood

Starting point is 05:24:03 and his blessed passion with reverent marveling in his high overpassing goodness and maketh us to love all that he loveth for his love and to be well pleased with him and all his works

Starting point is 05:24:19 and when we fall hastily he raiseth us by his lovely calling and gracious touching. And when we be thus strengthened by his sweet working, then we with all our will choose him, by his sweet grace, to be his servants and his lovers, lastingly without end. And after this, he suffereth some of us to fall more hard and more grievously than ever we did afore as us thinketh. And then ween we, who be not all wise, that all were naught that we have begun, but this is not so, for it needeth us to fall, and it needeth us to see it. For if we never fell, we should not know how feeble and how

Starting point is 05:25:12 wretched we are of ourself, and also we should not fully know that marvellous love of our maker. for we shall see verily in heaven without end that we have grievously sinned in this life and notwithstanding this we shall see that we were never hurt in his love we were nevertheless of price in his sight And by the assay of this falling, we shall have an high, marvellous knowing of love in God without end, for strong and marvellous is that love which may not nor will not be broken for trespass. And this is one understanding of our prophet. Another is the lowness and meekness that we shall get by the sight of our falling, for thereby we shall highly be raised in heaven, to which raising we might never have come without that meekness,

Starting point is 05:26:13 and therefore it needeth us to see it, and if we see it not, though we fell, it should not profit us, and commonly first we fall, and later we see it, and both by the mercy of God. The mother may suffer the child to fall, sometimes, and to be hurt in diverse manners for its own profit, but she may never suffer that any manner of peril come to the child, for love. And though our earthly mother may suffer her child

Starting point is 05:26:48 to perish, our heavenly mother, Jesus, may not suffer us that are his children to perish, for he is almighty, all wisdom, and all love, and so is none but he. Blessed may he be. But oftentimes when our falling and our wretchedness is showed us, we are so sore a dread and so greatly ashamed of ourself, that scarcely we find where we may hold us. But then willeth not our courteous mother that we flee away, for him were nothing loather. But he willeth then that we use the condition of a child, for when it is hurt, or a dread, it runneth hastily to the mother for help, with all its might. So willeth he that we do, as a meek child, saying thus,

Starting point is 05:27:45 My kind mother, my gracious mother, my dear worthy mother, have mercy on me. I have made myself foul and unlike to thee, and I nor may nor can amend it, but with thine help and grace. And if we feel us not then eased forthwith, Be we sure that he useth the condition of a wise mother. For if he see that it be more profit to us to mourn and to weep, He suffereth it, with Ruth and pity, Unto the best time for love.

Starting point is 05:28:22 And he willeth then that we use the property of a child, That ever more of nature trusteth to the love of the mother, In will and in woe. and he willeth that we take us mightily to the faith of holy church and find there our dear worthy mother in solace of true understanding with all the blessed common For one single person may oftentimes be broken, as it seemeth to himself, But the whole body of Holy Church was never broken, nor never shall be, without end. And therefore a sure thing it is, a good and a gracious, To will meekly and mightily, to be fastened and woned to our mother,

Starting point is 05:29:10 Holy Church, that is, Christ Jesus. For the food of mercy, that is his dear worthy blood and precious water is plenteous to make us fair and clean. The blessed wounds of our saviour be open and enjoy to heal us. The sweet gracious hands of our mother be ready and diligently about us.

Starting point is 05:29:35 For he, in all this working, useth the office of a kind nurse that hath naught else to do but to give heed about the salvation of her child. It is his office to save us, it is his worship to do for us, and it is his will that we know it, for he willeth that we love him sweetly, and trust in him meekly and mightily. And this showed he in these gracious words, I keep thee full surely.

Starting point is 05:30:11 End of Chapter 61. This recording is in the public domain. 62 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich, and then certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations, chapter 62. God is very father and very mother of nature, and all natures that he hath made to flow out of him to work his work his work. shall be restored and brought again into him by the salvation of mankind through the working of grace. For in that time he showed our frailty and our fallings, our afflictings and our settings at nought,

Starting point is 05:31:12 our despites and our outcastings, and all our woe so far forth as we thought it might befall in this life, and therewith he showed his blessed might, His blessed wisdom, His blessed love, that He keepeth us in this time as tenderly and as sweetly to his worship, and as surely to our salvation, as he doeth when we are in most solace and comfort, and thereto he raiseth us spiritually and highly in heaven, and turneth it all to his worship and to our joy without end. For his love suffereth us never to lose to God.

Starting point is 05:31:55 time. And all this is of the nature goodness of God by the working of grace. God is nature in his being. That is to say, that goodness that is nature, it is God. He is the ground, he is the substance, he is the same thing that is naturehood, and he is very father and very mother of nature, and all natures that he hath made to flow out of him to work his will shall be restored and brought again into him by the salvation of man through the working of grace. For of all natures that he hath set in diverse creatures by part, in man is all the whole, in fullness and in virtue, in fairness and in goodness, in royalty and nobleness, in all manner of majesty, of preciousness and worship. Here may we see that we are all beholden to God for nature, and we are all beholden to God for grace. Here may we see us needeth not greatly to seek far out to no sundry natures, but to holy church unto our mother's breast,

Starting point is 05:33:14 that is to say unto our own soul where our Lord dwelleth, and there shall we find all now in faith and understanding, and afterward verily in himself clearly, in bliss. But let no man nor woman take this singularly to himself, for it is not so, it is general, for it is of our precious Christ, and to him was this fair nature, for the worship and nobility of man's making, and for the joy and the bliss of man's salvation

Starting point is 05:33:52 even as he saw it, whist and knew from without beginning. End of Chapter 62. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 63 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich and ent certain points in the foregoing 14 revelations chapter 63 as verily as sin is unclean so verily is it unkind a disease or monstrous thing against nature

Starting point is 05:34:40 he shall heal us full fair here may we see that we have verily of nature to hate sin and we have verily of grace to hate sin. For nature is all good and fair in itself, and grace was sent out to save nature and destroy sin, and bring again fair nature to the blessed point from whence it came, that is God, with more nobleness and worship by the virtuous working of grace. For it shall be seen afore God by all His holy,

Starting point is 05:35:20 in joy without end, that nature hath been assayed in the fire of tribulation, and therein hath been found no flaw, no fault. Thus are nature and grace of one accord, for grace is God, as nature is God. He is two in manner of working, and one in love, and neither of these worketh without other, they be not disparted. and when we by mercy of god and with his help accord us to nature and grace we shall see verily that sin is in sooth viler and more painful than hell without likeness for it is contrary to our fair nature for as verily as sin is unclean so verily is it unnatural and thus an horrible thing to see for the loved soul that would be all fair and shining in the sight of god as nature and grace teacheth Yet be not a dread of this, Save inasmuch as dread may speed us, But meekly make we our moan to our dear worthy mother,

Starting point is 05:36:37 And he shall be sprinkle us in his precious blood, And make our soul full soft and full mild, And heal us full fare by process of time, Right as it is most worship to him, And joy to us without end. And of this sweet, fairer, working, he shall never cease nor stint till all his dear worthy children be born and forth brought. And that showed he where he showed me understanding of the ghostly thirst that is the love-longing

Starting point is 05:37:12 that shall last till doomsday. Thus in our very mother, Jesus, our life is grounded in the foreseeing wisdom of himself from without beginning, with the high might of the Father, the high sovereign goodness of the Holy Ghost. And in the taking of our nature, he quickened us. In his blessed dying upon the cross he bear us to endless life. And from that time, and now, and evermore unto doomsday, he feedeth us and furthereth us, even as that high sovereign kindness of motherhood, and as kindly need of childhood asketh. Fair and sweet is our heavenly mother in the sight of our souls. Precious and lovely are the gracious children in the sight of our heavenly mother,

Starting point is 05:38:08 with mildness and meekness, and all the fair virtues that belong to children in nature, for of nature the child despaireth not of the mother's love of nature the child presumeth not of itself of nature the child loveth the mother and each one of the other children these are the fair virtues with all other that be like wherewith our heavenly mother is served and pleased and i understood none higher stature in this life than child in feebleness and failing of might and of wit unto the time that our gracious mother hath brought us up to our father's bliss. And then shall it verily be known to us his meaning in those sweet words where he saith, All shall be well, and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of things shall be well. And then shall the bliss of our mother in Christ be new to begin. in the joys of our God, which new beginning shall last without end, new beginning. Thus I understood that all his blessed children, which become out of him by nature, shall be brought

Starting point is 05:39:32 again into him by grace. End of chapter 63. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 64 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich The 15th Revelation Chapter 64 Thou shalt come up above afore this time I had great longing

Starting point is 05:40:12 and desire of God's gift to be delivered of this world and of this life for oftentimes I beheld the woe that is here, and the wheel and the bliss that is being there. And if there had been no pain in this life but the absence of our Lord, me thought it was some time more than I might bear. And this made me to mourn, and eagerly to long, and also from mine own wretchedness, sloth and weakness, me liked not to live and to travail, as me fell to do. And to all this our courteous lord answered for comfort and patience, and said these words, Suddenly thou shalt be taken from all thy pain, from all thy sickness,

Starting point is 05:41:07 from all thy distress, and from all thy woe, and thou shalt come up above, and thou shalt have me to thy meed, and thou shalt be fulfilled of love and of bliss, and thou shalt never have no manner of pain, no manner of misliking, no wanting of will, but ever joy and bliss without end. What should it then agree thee to suffer a while, seeing that it is my will and my worship. And in this word, suddenly thou shalt be taken, I saw that God rewardeth man for the patience that he hath in abiding God's will, and for his time, and for that man lengtheneth his patience over the time of his living, for not knowing of his time of passing, that is a great prophet. For if a man knew his time, he should not have patience over that time. But, as God willeth,

Starting point is 05:42:14 while the soul is in the body, it seemeth to itself that it is ever at the point to be taken. For all this life and this languor that we have here is but a point, and when we are taken suddenly out of pain into bliss, then pain shall be naught. For in the world, for in the world, for in the world, In this time I saw a body lying on the earth, which body showed heavy and horrible, without shape and form, as it were a swollen quag of stinking mire. And suddenly out of this body sprang a full fair creature, a little child, fully shapen and formed, nimble and lively, whiter than lily, which swiftly glided up into heaven. and the swollenness of the body betokeneth great wretchedness of our deadly flesh and the littleness of the child betokeneth the cleanness of purity in the soul and methought with this body abideth no fairness of this child and on this child dwelleth no foulness of this body it is more blissful that man be taken from pain than that pain be taken from man for if pain be taken from us it may come again therefore it is a sovereign comfort and blissful beholding in a loving soul that we shall be taken from pain

Starting point is 05:43:54 for in this behest i saw a marvellous compassion that our lord hath in us for our woe and a courteous promising of clear deliverance for he willeth that we be comforted in the over-passing, and that he showed in these words, and thou shalt come up above, and thou shalt have me to thy mead, and thou shalt be fulfilled of joy and bliss. It is God's will that we set the point of our thought in this blissful beholding as often as we may,

Starting point is 05:44:32 and as long time keep us therein with His grace, for this is a blessed contemplation to the soul that is led of God, and fall greatly to his worship for the time that it lasteth. And when we fall again to our heaviness and spiritual blindness and feeling of pains spiritual and bodily by our frailty,

Starting point is 05:44:59 it is God's will that we know that He has, hath not forgotten us. And so signifieth he in these words, and thou shalt never more have pain, no manner of sickness, no manner of misliking, no wanting of will, but ever joy and bliss without end. What should it then agree thee to suffer a while, seeing it is my will and my worship. It is God's will that we take his behests and his comfortings as largely and as mightily as we may take them. And also he willeth that we take our abiding and our troubles as lightly as we may take them and set them at naught. For the more lightly we take them and the less price we set on them for love, the less pain we shall have in the feeling of them.

Starting point is 05:45:59 and the more thanks and meed we shall have for them. End of chapter 64. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 65 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 15th Revelation, Chapter 65. The Charity of God,

Starting point is 05:46:36 maketh in us such a unity that when it is truly seen no man can part himself from other and thus i understood that what man or woman with firm will chooseth god in this life for love he may be sure that he is loved without end which endless love worketh in him that grace for he willeth that we be as assured in hope of bliss of heaven while we are here, as we shall be in sureness while we are there. And ever the more pleasance and joy that we take in this sureness with reverence and meekness, the better pleaseth him, as it was showed. This reverence that I mean is a holy courteous dread of our Lord, to which meekness is united, and that is that a creature seeth the Lord, marvellous great, and itself marvellous little, for these virtues are had endlessly by the loved of God, and this may now be seen and felt

Starting point is 05:47:54 in measure through the gracious presence of our Lord when it is seen, which presence in all things is most desired, for it worketh marvellous assuredness in true faith and sure hope, by greatness of charity, in dread that is sweet and delectable. It is God's will that I see myself as much bound to him in love as if he had done for me all that he hath done, and thus should every soul think inwardly of its love. lover. That is to say, the charity of God maketh in us such a unity, that when it is truly seen, no man can part himself from other, and thus ought our soul to think that God hath done for it all that he hath done. And this showed he to make us to love him, and not dread but him,

Starting point is 05:48:59 for it is his will that we perceive that all the might of our enemy is taken into our friend's hand, and therefore the soul that knoweth assuredly this he shall not dread but him that he loveth. All other dread he setteth among passions and bodily sickness and imaginations, and therefore though we be in so much pain, woe and, distress that it seemeth to us we can think of right naught, but of that which we are in, or of that which we feel. Yet, as soon as we may, pass we light over, and set we it at naught. And why? For that God willeth we know him, and if we know him and love him and reverently dread him, we shall have peace, and be in great rest, and it shall be in great rest, and it shall

Starting point is 05:49:59 be great pleasance to us all that he doeth. And this showed our Lord in these words, What should it then aggrieve thee to suffer a while, Sith it is my will and my worship? Now have I told you of fifteen revelations, as God vouchsafed to minister them to my mind, renewed by lightings and touchings, I hope of the same spirit that showed them all. Of which fifteen showings the first began early in the morn, about the hour of four, and they lasted, showing by process full, fair, and steadily, each following another, till it was nine of the day, overpast. End of Chapter 65. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 05:51:06 Chapter 66 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 15th Revelation. Chapter 66 All was closed and I saw no more. for the folly of feeling a little bodily pain I unwisely lost for the time the comfort of all this blessed showing of our Lord God

Starting point is 05:51:39 and after this the good Lord showed the sixteenth revelation on the night following as I shall tell after which sixteenth was conclusion and confirmation to all fifteen But first, me behoveth to tell you, as anent my feebleness, wretchedness and blindness. I have said in the beginning, and in this moment all my pain was suddenly taken from me, of which pain I had no grief nor distress, as long as the fifteen showings lasted following. And at the end all was close, and I saw no more. And soon I felt that I should live and languish, and anon my sickness came again,

Starting point is 05:52:33 first in my head with a sound and a din, and suddenly all my body was fulfilled with sickness like as it was of fall, and I was as barren and as dry as if I never had comfort but little. And as a wretched creature I moaned and cried for feeling of my bodily pains, a failing of comfort, spiritual and bodily. Then came a religious person to me, and asked me how I fared. I said I had raved to-day, and he laughed loud and heartily, and I said, The cross that stood afore my face, me thought it bled fast, and with this word the person that I spake to waxed all sober and marvelled, and anon unarmled, and anon

Starting point is 05:53:26 I was sore ashamed and astonished for my recklessness, and I thought, This man taketh in sober earnest the least word that I might say. Then said I no more thereof, and when I saw that he took it earnestly, and with so great reverence, I wept, full greatly ashamed, and would have been shriven, but at that time I could tell it no priest, for I thought, How should a priest believe me? I believe not our Lord God.

Starting point is 05:54:03 This showing I believed verily for the time that I saw him, and so was then my will and my meaning ever for to do without end. But as a fool I let it pass from my mind. Ah, lo, the wretch that I am, this was a great sin, great unkindness, that I, for folly of feeling of a little bodily pain,

Starting point is 05:54:29 so unwisely lost for the time, the comfort of all this blessed showing of our Lord God. Here may you see what I am of myself. But herein would our courteous Lord not leave me, and I lay still till night, trusting in his mercy, and then I began to sleep. And in the sleep, at the beginning, methought the fiend set him on my throat, putting forth a visage full near my face,

Starting point is 05:55:04 like a young man's, and it was long and wondrous lean. I saw never none such. The colour was red like the tile-stone when it is new burnt, with black spots therein like black freckles, fowler than the tiled, tile stone. His hair was red as dust, clipped in front, with full locks hanging on the temples.

Starting point is 05:55:29 He grinned on me with a malicious semblance, showing white teeth, and so much me thought it the more horrible. Body nor hands had me none shapely, but with his paws he held me in the throat, and would have strangled me, but he might not. This terrible showing was made whilst I was sleeping, and so was none other, but in all this time I trusted to be saved and kept by the mercy of God, and our courteous Lord gave me grace to waken,

Starting point is 05:56:07 and scarcely had I my life. The persons that were with me looked on me, and wet my temples, and my heart began to comfort. And anon a light smoke came in the door, with a great heat and a foul stench. I said, Benedicte Dominé, it is all on fire that is here.

Starting point is 05:56:30 And I weaned it had been a bodily fire that should have burnt us all to death. I asked them that were with me if they felt any stench. They said, nay, they felt none. I said, Blessed be God, for then wist I well, it was the fiend that was come to tempest me, and anon I took to that which our Lord had showed me on the same day, with all the faith of

Starting point is 05:56:58 Holy Church, for I beheld it is both one, and fled thereto as to my comfort, and anon all vanished away, and I was brought to great rest and peace, without sickness of body or dread of conscience. End of chapter 66. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 67 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 16th Revelation, Chapter 67.

Starting point is 05:57:47 The place that Jesus taketh in our soul, he shall not never remove from without end, for in us is his homeliest home and his endless dwelling. Our soul can never have rest in things that are beneath itself, yet may it not abide in the beholding of itself. And then our Lord opened my spiritual eye, and showed me my soul in midst of my heart. I saw the soul so large as it were an endless world, and as it were a blissful kingdom, and by the conditions that I saw therein, I understood that it is a worshipful city. In the midst of that city sitteth our Lord Jesus, God and man, a fair person of large stature, highest bishop, most majestic king, most worshipful Lord. And I saw him clad majestically,

Starting point is 05:58:50 and worshipfully he sitteth in the soul, even right in peace and rest. And the Godhead ruleth and sustaineth heaven and earth, and all that is, sovereign might, sovereign wisdom, and sovereign goodness. But the place that Jesus taketh in our soul, he shall never remove it without end, as to my sight, for in us is his homeliest home and his endless dwelling. And in this sight,

Starting point is 05:59:23 And in this sight he showed me the satisfying that he hath of the making of man's soul. For as well as the Father might make a creature, and as well as the Son might make a creature, so well would the Holy Ghost that man's soul were made. And so it was done. And therefore the Blessed Trinity enjoyeth without end in the making of man's soul. For he saw from without beginning what should be able. please him without end. All thing that he hath made showeth his lordship, as understanding was given at the

Starting point is 06:00:02 same time by example of a creature that is to see great treasures and kingdoms belonging to a lord, and when it had seen all the nobleness beneath, then marvelling, it was moved to seek above to the high place where the lord dwelleth, knowing by reason that his dwelling is in the world. It was in the dwelling is in the worthiest place. And thus I understood in verity that our soul may never have rest in things that are beneath itself, and when it cometh above all creatures into the self, yet may it not abide in the beholding of itself, but all the beholding is blissfully set in God that is the maker dwelling therein, for in man's soul is his very dwelling.

Starting point is 06:00:52 And the highest light and the brightest shining of the city is the glorious love of our Lord as to my sight. And what may make us more to enjoy in God than to see in him that he enjoyeth in the highest of all his works? For I saw in the same showing that if the Blessed Trinity might have made man's soul any better, any fairer, any nobler than it was made, He should not have been full pleased with the making of man's soul, and he willeth that our hearts be mightily raised above the deepness of the earth and all vain sorrows, and rejoice in him. End of Chapter 67. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 68 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes.

Starting point is 06:01:54 Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich The sixteenth revelation Chapter 68 He said not Thou shalt not be tempested Thou shalt not be travailed Thou shalt not be afflicted Thou shalt not be overcome

Starting point is 06:02:14 This was a delectable sight And a restful showing That it is so without end The beholding of this while we are here Is full pleasing to God And full great prophet to us And the soul that thus beholdeth It maketh it like to him that is beheld

Starting point is 06:02:37 And woneth it in rest and peace By his grace And this was a singular joy and bliss to me That I saw him sitting For the quiet secureness of sitting Showeth endless dwelling And he gave me to know, soothfastly, That it was he that showed me all afore,

Starting point is 06:03:00 And when I had beheld this with heedfulness, Then showed our good Lord words, He showed it all the revelation, again within in my soul, Full meekly, without voice and without opening of lips, Right as he had aforedone, and said full sweetly, wit it now well that it was no raving that thou sawest today, but take it and believe it, and keep thee therein, and comfort thee therein,

Starting point is 06:03:31 and trust thou thereto, and thou shalt not be overcome. These last words were said for believing and true sureness that it is our Lord Jesus that showed me all, and write as in the first word that our good Lord showed, signifying his blissful passion herewith is the devil overcome right so he said in the last word with full true secureness meaning us all thou shalt not be overcome and all this teaching in this true comfort it is general to all mine even christians as it is aforesaid and so is god's will And this word, thou shalt not be overcome, was said full clearly and full mightily, for assuredness and comfort against all tribulations that may come.

Starting point is 06:04:30 He said not, thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be traveiled, thou shalt not be afflicted, but he said, thou shalt not be overcome. God willeth that we take heed to these words, and that we be ever strong. in sure trust, in will and woe, for he loveth and enjoyeth us, and so willeth he that we love and enjoy him, and mightily trust in him, and all shall be well. And soon after all was close, and I saw no more. End of Chapter 68. This recording is in the public domain. read for librivox dot org by david barnes revelations of divine love by julian of norwich the sixteenth revelation chapter sixty nine i was delivered from the enemy by the virtue of christ's passion after this the fiend came again with his heat and with his stench and gave me much ado the stench was so vile and so painful and also

Starting point is 06:05:54 dreadful and travailless. Also I heard a bodily jangling, as if it had been of two persons, and both to my thinking jangled at one time as if they had holden a parliament with a great busyness, and all was soft muttering, so that I understood not that they said. And all this was to stir me to despair, as me thought, seeming to me as though they mocked at preying of prayers which are said boisterously with the mouth, failing of devout attending and wise diligence, the which we owe to God in our prayers. And our Lord God gave me grace mightily for to trust in him, and to comfort my soul with bodily speech, as I should have done to another person that had been travailed. Me thought that busyness might not be likened to no bodily busyness. My bodily eye I

Starting point is 06:06:54 set on the same cross where I had been in comforter for that time, my tongue with speech of Christ's passion and rehearsing the faith of Holy Church, and my heart to fasten on God with all the trust and the might. And I thought to myself, saying, Thou hast now great busyness to keep thee in the faith, for that thou shouldst not be taken of the enemy. Wouldst thou now from this time evermore be so busy to keep thee from sin, this were a good and sovereign occupation. For I thought in sooth, Were I safe from sin, I were full safe from all the fiends of hell and enemies of my soul. And thus he occupied me all that night, and on the morn till it was about prime day. And anon they were all gone and all passed, and they left nothing but stench, and that lasted still a while,

Starting point is 06:07:55 and I scorned him. And thus was I delivered from him by the virtue of Christ's passion, for therewith is the fiend overcome, as our Lord Jesus Christ said afore. End of Chapter 69. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 70 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich The 16th Revelation Chapter 70

Starting point is 06:08:37 Above the faith is no goodness kept in this life as to my sight and beneath the faith is no help of soul but in there In all this blessed showing, our good Lord gave understanding that the sight should pass, which blessed showing the faith keepeth, with his own good will and his grace. For he left with me neither sign nor token whereby I might know it, but he left with me his own blessed word and true understanding,

Starting point is 06:09:14 bidding me full mightily that I should believe it. And so I do, blessed may he be, I believe that he is our saviour that showed it, and that it is the faith that he showed, and therefore I believe it, rejoicing, and thereto I am bounden by all his own meaning, with the next words that follow, keep thee therein, and comfort thee therewith, and trust thou thereto. Thus I am bounden to keep it in my faith, for on the same day that it was showed, what time that the sight was passed,

Starting point is 06:09:54 as a wretch I forsook it, and openly I said that I had raved. Then our Lord Jesus, of his mercy, would not let it perish, but he showed it all again within in my soul, with more fullness, with the blessed light of his precious love, saying these words full mightily and full meekly wit it now well it was no raving that thou sawest this day as if he had said

Starting point is 06:10:25 for that the sight was passed from thee thou loos'dst it and hadst not skill to keep it but wit it now that is to say now that thou seest it this was said not only for that same time but also to set thereupon the ground of my faith when he saith anon following but take it believe it and keep thee therein and comfort thee therewith and trust thou thou thou'n following and trust thou'n following and to take it believe it and keep thee therein and comfort thee therewith and trust thou there too, and thou shalt not be overcome. In these six words that follow, take it, etc., his meaning is to fasten it faithfully in our heart, for he willeth that it dwell with us in faith to our life's end, and after, in fullness of joy, desiring that we have ever steadfast trust in his blissful behest, knowing his goodness. For our faith is contraried in diverse manners by our own blindness and our spiritual enemy within and without, and therefore our precious lover helpeth us with spiritual sight and true teaching in sundry manners within and without, whereby that we may

Starting point is 06:11:45 know him. And therefore in whatsoever manner he teacheth us, he willeth that we perceive him wisely receive him sweetly and keep us in him faithfully for above the faith is no goodness kept in this life as to my sight and beneath the faith is no help of soul but in the faith there willeth the lord that we keep us for we have by his goodness and by his own working to keep us in the faith and by his sufferance through ghostly enmity we are assayed in the faith and made mighty. For if our faith had none enmity, it should deserve no mead, according to the understanding that I have in all our Lord's teaching. End of Chapter 70. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 71 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevex.org by David Barnes.

Starting point is 06:12:57 revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich the sixteenth revelation chapter 71 three manners of looking seen in our Lord's countenance glad and joyous and sweet is the blissful lovely cheer of our Lord to our souls for he beholdeth us ever living in love-longing and he willeth that our soul be in glad cheer to him, to give him his mead, and thus I hope, with his grace he hath drawn, and more shall draw the outer cheer to the inner cheer, and make us all one with him, and each of us with other, in true lasting joy that is Jesus. I have signifying of three manners of cheer of our Lord, The first is cheer of passion, as he showed while he was here in this life, dying.

Starting point is 06:14:03 Though this manner of beholding be mournful and troubled, yet it is glad and joyous, for he is God. The second manner of cheer is of Ruth and compassion, and this showeth he with sureness of keeping to all his lovers that betake them to his mercy. the third is the blissful cheer as it shall be without end and this was showed oftenest and longest continued and thus in the time of our pain and our woe he showeth us cheer of his passion and his cross helping us to bear it by his own blessed virtue and in the time of our sinning he showeth to us cheer of ruth and pity mightily keeping us and defending us against all our enemies. And these be the common cheer which he showeth to us in this life. Therewith mingling the third, and that is his blissful cheer, like in part as it shall be in heaven. And that showing is by gracious touching and sweet lighting of the

Starting point is 06:15:18 spiritual life, whereby that we are kept in sure faith, hope and charity, with contrition and devotion, and also with contemplation, and all manner of true solace and sweet comforts. End of Chapter 71. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 72 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. the 16th Revelation Chapter 72 As long as we be meddling with any part of sin

Starting point is 06:16:07 We shall never see clearly The blissful countenance of our Lord But now behoveth me to tell in what manner I saw sin deadly in the creatures Which shall not die for sin But live in the joy of God without end I saw that two contrary things should never be together in one place.

Starting point is 06:16:32 The most contrary that are is the highest bliss and the deepest pain. The highest bliss that is is to have him in clarity of endless life, him verily seeing, him sweetly feeling, all perfectly having in fullness of joy. And thus was the blissful cheer of our Lord

Starting point is 06:16:57 showed in pity. in which showing i saw that sin is most contrary so far forth that as long as we be meddling with any part of sin we shall never see clearly the blissful cheer of our lord and the more horrible and grievous that our sins be the deeper are we for that time from this blissful sight and therefore it seemeth to us oftentimes as we are in peril of death in a part of hell for the sorrow and pain that the sin is to us and thus we are dead for the time from the very sight of our blissful life but in all this i saw soothfastly that we be not dead in the sight of god nor he passeth never from us but he shall never have his full bliss in us till we have our full bliss in him verily seeing him his fair blissful cheer. For we are ordained thereto in nature, and get there too by grace. Thus I saw how sin is deadly for a short time in the blessed creatures of endless life. And ever the more clearly that the soul seeth this blissful cheer by grace of loving,

Starting point is 06:18:22 the more it longeth to see it in fullness. For notwithstanding that our Lord God dwellers, in us and is here with us, and albeit he claspeth us, and encloses us for tender love, that he may never leave us, and is more near to us than tongue can tell or heart can think, yet may we never stint of moaning, nor of weeping, nor of longing, till we see him clearly in his blissful countenance, for in that precious blissful sight there may no woe abide, nor any wheel fail. And in this I saw matter of mirth, and matter of moaning. Matter of mirth, for our lord, our maker, is so near to us and in us, and we in him,

Starting point is 06:19:15 by sureness of keeping through his great goodness. Matter of moaning, for our ghostly eye is so blind, and we be so borne down by weight of our mortal flesh and dark, of sin, that we may not see our Lord God clearly in his fair blissful cheer. No, and because of this dimness, scarcely we can believe and trust his great love and our sureness of keeping. And therefore it is that I say we may never stint of moaning nor of weeping. This weeping meaneth not all in pouring out of tears by our bodily eye, but also hath more ghostly understanding, for the kindly desire of our soul is so great and so unmeasurable,

Starting point is 06:20:08 that if there were given us for our solace and for our comfort all the noble things that ever God made in heaven and in earth, and we saw not the fair blissful cheer of himself, yet we should not stint of moaning nor ghostly weeping, that is to say, of painful longing, till when we should see verily the fair blissful cheer of our maker. And if we were in all the pain that heart can think and tongue may tell, if we might in that time see his fair blissful cheer, all this pain should not aggrieve us. Thus is that blissful sight the end of all manner of pain to the loving soul,

Starting point is 06:20:55 and the fulfilling of all manner of joy and bliss. And that showed he in the high, marvellous words where he said, I it am that is highest, I it am that is lowest, I it am that is all. It belongeth to us to have three manner of knowings. The first is that we know our Lord God. The second is that we know ourselves. what we are by him in nature and grace.

Starting point is 06:21:30 The third is that we know meekly what our self is, anent our sin and feebleness, and for these three was all the showing made, as to mine understanding. End of Chapter 72. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 73 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David.

Starting point is 06:22:04 Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 16th Revelation, chapter 73, two manners of sickness that we have, impatience or sloth, despair or mistrustful dread. All the blessed teaching of our Lord was showed by three parts, that is to say, by bodily sight and by word formed in mine understanding, and by blessed teaching. And by the blessed teaching of our Lord was showed by three parts, by spiritual sight. For the bodily sight I have said as I saw as truly as I can, and for the words I have said them right as our Lord showed them to me, and for the spiritual sight I have told some deal, but I may never fully tell it, and therefore for this sight I am stirred to say more, as God will give me grace.

Starting point is 06:23:00 generally he showed sin wherein that all is comprehended but in special he showed only these two and these two are they that most do travail and tempesters according to that which our lord showed me and of them he would have us to be amended i speak of such men and women as for god's love hate sin and dispose themselves to do god's will then by our spiritual blindness and bodily heaviness we are most inclining to these, and therefore it is God's will that they be known, for then we shall refuse them as we do other sins. And for help of this, full meekly our Lord showed the patience that he had in his hard passion, and also the joying and the satisfying that he hath of that passion for love. And this he showed in example, that we should gladly and wisely bear our pains for that is great pleasing to him and endless profit to us and the cause why we are travailed with them is for lack in knowing of love though the three persons in the trinity be all even in itself the soul took most understanding in love yea and he willeth that in all things we have our beholding and our enjoying in love and of this knowing are we most blind for some of us believe that god is almighty and may do all and that he is all wisdom and can do all but that he is all love and we are most blind but that he is all love and we are

Starting point is 06:24:48 will do all, there we stop short. And this not knowing it is that hindreth most God's lovers as to my sight. For when we begin to hate sin and amend us by the ordinance of Holy Church, yet there dwelleth a dread that letteth us because of the beholding of ourself and of our sins are foredone, and some of us because of our every daily sins, for we hold not our covenants, nor keep we our cleanness that our Lord setteth us in, but fall oftentimes into so much wretchedness that shame it is to see it. And the beholding of this make us so sorry and so heavy that scarcely we can find any comfort. And this dread we take some time for a meekness, but it is a foul blindness and a weakness, and we cannot despise it as we do another sin, that we know as sin, for it cometh subtly of enmity,

Starting point is 06:25:58 and it is against truth, for it is God's will that of all the properties of the blissful Trinity we should have most sureness and comfort in love, for love maketh might and wisdom full meek to us. For write as by the courtesy of God, He forgiveth our sin after the time that we repent us. Right so willeth he that we forgive our sin, as an end our unskilful heaviness and our doubtful dreads. End of Chapter 73.

Starting point is 06:26:36 This recording is in the public. domain. Chapter 74 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 16th Revelation. Chapter 74. There is no dread that fully pleaseth God in us, but reverent dread. For I understand that there be four manner of dreads. One is the dreads. One is the dread of an affright that cometh to a man suddenly by frailty. This dread doeth good, for it helpeth to purge man, as doeth bodily sickness or such other pain as is not sin. For all such pains help man if they be patiently taken. The second is dread of pain, whereby man is stirred and wakened

Starting point is 06:27:40 from sleep of sin. He is not able for the time to perceive the soft comfort of the Holy Ghost, till he have understanding of this dread of pain, of bodily death, of spiritual enemies. And this dread stirreth us to seek comfort and mercy of God, and thus this dread helpeth us, and enableeth us to have contrition by the blissful touching of the Holy Ghost. The third is doubtful dread. Doubtful dread, inasmuch as it draweth to despair, God will have it turned in us into love by the knowing of love.

Starting point is 06:28:23 That is to say that the bitterness of doubt be turned into the sweetness of natural love by grace. For it may never please our Lord that his servants doubt in his goodness. The fourth is reverent dread, for there is no dread that fully pleaseth God in us but reverent dread, and that is full soft, for the more it is had, the less it is felt for sweetness of love. Love and dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the goodness of our maker,

Starting point is 06:29:01 and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love, and we have of grace to love. love, and we have of nature to dread, and we have of grace to dread. It belongeth to the lordship and to the fatherhood to be dreaded, as it belongeth to the goodness to be loved, and it belongeth to us that are his servants and his children to dread him for lordship and fatherhood, as it belongeth to us to love him for goodness. And though this reverent dread and love be not parted asunder, yet they are not both one, but they are two in property and in working, and neither

Starting point is 06:29:48 of them may be had without other. Therefore I am sure he that loveth, he dreadeth, though that he feel it but little. All dreads other than reverent dread that I, proffered to us, though they come under the colour of holiness, yet are not so true, and hereby may they be known asunder. That dread that maketh us hastily to flee from all that is not good, and fall into our Lord's breast, as the child into the mother's bosom, with all our intent and with all our mind, knowing our feebleness and our great need, knowing his everlasting goodness and his blissful love, only seeking to him for salvation, cleaving to him with sure trust, that dread that bringeth us into this working, it is natural, gracious, good and true.

Starting point is 06:30:48 And all that is contrary to this, either it is wrong or it is mingled with wrong. Then is this the remedy, to know them both and refuse the wrong. natural property of dread which we have in this life by the gracious working of the Holy Ghost, the same shall be in heaven afore God, gentle, courteous, and full delectable, and thus we shall in love be homely and near to God, and we shall in dread be gentle and courteous to God, and both alike equal. Desire we of our Lord to dread him reverently, to love him meekly, to trust in him mightily. For when we dread him reverently, and love him meekly, our trust is never in vain. For the more that we trust, and the more mightily, the more we please and worship our Lord

Starting point is 06:31:48 that we trust in. And if we fail in this reverent dread and meek love, as God forbid we should, our trust shall soon be misruled for the time, and therefore it needeth as much as much, to pray our Lord of grace that we may have this reverent dread and meek love of his gift in heart and in work, for without this, no man may please God. End of Chapter 74. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 75 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich the 16th revelation Chapter 75

Starting point is 06:32:46 We shall see verily the cause of all things that he hath done And evermore we shall see the cause of all things that he hath permitted I saw that God can do all that we need And these three that I shall speak of we need love longing pity pity in love keepeth us in the time of our need and longing in the same love draweth us up into heaven for the thirst of god is to have the general man unto him in which thirst he hath drawn his holy that be now in bliss and getting his lively members ever he draweth and drinketh and yet he thirsteth and longeth. I saw three manners of longing in God and all to one end, of which we have the same in us,

Starting point is 06:33:49 and by the same virtue, and for the same end. The first is that he longeth to teach us to know him and love him ever more, as it is convenient and speedful to us. The second is that he longeth to teach us, have us up to his bliss, as souls are when they are taken out of pain into heaven. The third is to fulfil us in bliss, and that shall be on the last day fulfilled ever to last. For I saw, as it is known in our faith, that the pain and the sorrow shall be ended to all that shall be saved, and not only we shall receive the same bliss that Saul.

Starting point is 06:34:36 souls afore have had in heaven, but also we shall receive a new bliss which plenteously shall be flowing out of God into us, and shall fulfil us. And these be the goods which he hath ordained to give us from without beginning. These goods are treasured and hid in himself, for unto that time no creature is mighty nor worthy to receive them. In this fulfilling we shall see verily the cause of all things that he hath done, and evermore we shall see the cause of all things that he hath suffered, and the bliss and the fulfilling shall be so deep and so high, that for wonder and marvel all creatures shall have to God so great reverend,

Starting point is 06:35:30 dread, overpassing that which hath been seen and felt before, that the pillars of heaven shall tremble and quake. But this manner of trembling and dread shall have no pain, but it belongeth to the worthy might of God thus to be beholden by his creatures, in great dread trembling and quaking for meekness of joy, marvelling at the greatness of God the maker, and at the littleness of all that is made. For the beholding of this, maketh the creature marvellously meek and mild. Wherefore God willeth, and also it belongeth to us both in nature and grace, that we wit and know of this, desiring this sight and this working, for it leadeth us in right way, and keepeth us in true life,

Starting point is 06:36:29 and woneth us to God. And as good as God is, so great he is. And as much as it belongeth to his goodness to be loved, so much it belongeth to his greatness to be dreaded. For this reverent dread is the fair courtesy that is in heaven afore God's face. And as much as he shall then be known and loved overpassing that he is now, in so much he shall be dreaded over passing that he is now wherefore it behoveth needs to be that all heaven and earth shall tremble and quake when the pillars shall tremble and quake end of chapter seventy five this recording is in the public domain chapter seventy six of revelations of divine love read for librivox dot org by david barnes

Starting point is 06:37:37 revelations of divine love by julian of norwich the sixteenth revelation chapter seventy six the soul that beholdeth the fair nature of our lord jesus it hateth no hell but sin I speak but little of reverent dread, for I hope it may be seen in this matter aforesaid. But well I what our Lord showed me no souls but those that dread him, for well I what the soul that truly taketh the teaching of the Holy Ghost, it hateth more sin for vileness and horribleness than it doth all the pain that is in hell. for the soul that beholdeth the fair nature of our Lord Jesus, it hateth no hell but sin as to my sight. And therefore it is God's will that we know sin,

Starting point is 06:38:35 and pray busily and travail earnestly, and seek teaching meekly, that we fall not blindly therein, and if we fall, that we rise readily, for it is the most pain that the soul may be able, have to turn from God any time by sin. The soul that willeth to be in rest when another man's sin cometh to mind, he shall flee it as the pain of hell, seeking unto God for remedy, for help against it.

Starting point is 06:39:10 For the beholding of other man's sins, it maketh as it were, a thick mist afore the eyes of the soul, and we cannot, for the time, see the fendens. of God, but if we may behold them with contrition with him, with compassion on him, and with holy desire to God for him. For without this it harmeth and tempesteth, and hindreth the soul that beholdeth them. For this I understood in the showing of compassion. In this blissful showing of our Lord, I have understanding of two contrary things, the one is the most wisdom that any creature may do in this life, the other is the most folly. The most wisdom is for a creature to do after the will and counsel of his highest sovereign friend.

Starting point is 06:40:08 This blessed friend is Jesus, and it is his will and his counsel that we hold us with him and fasten us to him homely, evermore, in what states aware that we be? For whether so that we be foul or clean, we are all one in his loving. For weal nor for woe he willeth never we flee from him. But because of the changeability that we are in, in ourself, we fall often into sin. Then we have this doubting dread by the stirring of our enemy and by our own folly and blindness. For they say thus, Thou seest well thou art a wretched creature, a sinner, and also unfaithful, for thou keepest not the command, thou dost promise oftentimes our lord that thou shalt do better, and anon after thou fallest again into the same, especially into sloth and losing of time. For that is the beginning of sin as to my sight, and especially to the creatures that have

Starting point is 06:41:18 given them to serve our Lord with inward beholding of his blessed goodness. And this maketh us a dread to appear afore our courteous Lord. Thus it is our enemy that would put us aback with false dread, by reason of our wretchedness, through pain that he threateth us with. For it is his meaning to make us so heavy and so weary in this that we should let out of mind the fair, blissful beholding of our everlasting friend. End of Chapter 76. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 06:42:05 Chapter 77 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. the 16th Revelation Chapter 77 Accus not thyself over much Deeming that thy tribulation and thy woe is all thy fault All thy living is penance profitable

Starting point is 06:42:33 In the remedy he willeth that we rejoice Our good lord showed the enmity of the fiend In which showing I understood that all that is contrary to love and peace is of the fiend and of his part. And we have of our feebleness and our folly to fall, and we have of mercy and grace of the Holy Ghost to rise to more joy. And if our enemy aught winneth of us by our falling, for it is his pleasure,

Starting point is 06:43:09 he looseth manifold more in our rising by charity and meekness. And this glorious rising It is to him so great sorrow and pain For the hate that he hath to our soul That he burneth continually in envy And all this sorrow That he would make us to have It shall turn to himself

Starting point is 06:43:34 And for this it was that our Lord scorned him And it was this that made me mightily to laugh Then is this the remedy That we be aware of our wretchedness And flee to our Lord Forever the more needy that we be The more speedful it is to us to draw nigh to him And let us say thus in our thinking

Starting point is 06:43:59 I know well I have a shrewd pain But our Lord is almighty And may punish me mightily And he is all wisdom And can punish me discern me discerned and he is all goodness, and loveth me full tenderly. And in this beholding it is necessary for us to abide, for it is a lovely meekness of a sinful soul,

Starting point is 06:44:27 wrought by mercy and grace of the Holy Ghost, when we willingly and gladly take the scourge and chastening of our Lord that himself will give us. And it shall be full tenderness, and full easy, if that we will only hold us satisfied with him, and with all his works. For the penance that man taketh of himself was not showed me, that is to say, it was not showed specified, but specially and highly, and with full lovely manner of look, was it showed that we shall meekly bear and suffer the penance that God himself giveth us,

Starting point is 06:45:11 with mind in his blessed passion. For when we have mind in his blessed passion with pity and love, then we suffer with him, like as his friends did that saw it. And this was showed in the 13th showing, near the beginning, where it speaketh of pity.

Starting point is 06:45:34 For he saith, accuse not thyself overdone much, deeming that thy tribulation and thy tribulation and thy woe is all for thy fault, for I will not that thou be heavy or sorrowful indiscreetly, for I tell thee, howsoever thou do, thou shalt have woe, and therefore I will that thou wisely know thy penance, and thou shalt see in truth that all thy living is penance profitable.

Starting point is 06:46:06 This place is prison, and this life is penance, And in the remedy He willeth that we rejoice. The remedy is that our Lord is with us, Keeping and leading into the fullness of joy. For this is an endless joy to us in our Lord's signifying, That he shall be our bliss when we are there. He is our keeper while we are here. Our way and our heaven is true love and sure trust.

Starting point is 06:46:40 And of this he gave us. understanding in all the showings, and especially in the showing of the passion, where he made me mightily to choose him for my heaven. Flee we to our Lord, and we shall be comforted, touch we him, and we shall be made clean, cleave we to him, and we shall be sure and safe from all manner of peril. For our courteous Lord willeth that we should be as homely, with him, as heart may think or soul may desire. But let us beware that we take not so recklessly this homeliness as to leave courtesy, for our Lord himself is sovereign homeliness, and as homeliness,

Starting point is 06:47:29 and as homely as he is, so courteous he is, for he is very courteous. And the blessed creatures that shall be in heaven with him without end, he will have them like to himself in all things. And to be like our Lord perfectly, it is our very salvation and our full bliss. And if we want not, how we shall do all this, desire we of our Lord, and he shall teach us, for it is his own good pleasure and his worship. Blessed may he be. End of Chapter 77. This recording is in the public domain.

Starting point is 06:48:23 Chapter 78 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 16th Revelation, Chapter 78. Though we be highly lifted up into contemplation, by the special gift of our lord, yet it is needful to us to have knowledge and sight of our sin and our feebleness. Our lord of his mercy showeth us our sin and our feebleness

Starting point is 06:49:00 by the sweet gracious light of himself. For our sin is so vile and so horrible that he of his courtesy will not show it to us but by the light of his grace and mercy. of four things, therefore, it is His will that we have knowing. The first is that He is our ground from whom we have all our life and our being. The second is that He keepeth us mightily and mercifully in the time that we are in our sin and among all our enemies that our full fell upon us. And so much we are in the more peril, for that we give them occasion thereto, and know not

Starting point is 06:49:45 our own need. The third is, how courteously he keepeth us, and maketh us to know that we go amiss. The fourth is, how steadfastly he abideth us, and changeth no regard, for he willeth that we be turned again, and want to him in love as he is to us. And thus by this gracious knowing, we may see our sin profitably without despair, for truly we need to see it, and by the sight we shall be made ashamed of ourself, and brought down as anent our pride and presumption, for it behoveth us verily to see that of ourselves we are right naught but sin and wretchedness,

Starting point is 06:50:37 and thus by the sight of the less that our Lord showeth us, the more is reckoned which we see not, for he of his courtesy measureeth the sight to us, for it is so vile and so horrible that we should not endure to see it as it is, and by this meek knowing after this manner, through contrition and grace, we shall be broken from all that is not our Lord.

Starting point is 06:51:06 And then shall our blessed Saviour perfectly heal us, and won us to him. This breaking and this healing our Lord meaneth for the general man, for he that is highest and nearest with God, he may see himself sinful, and needeth to, with me, and I that am the least and lowest that shall be saved, I may be comforted with him that is highest. So hath our Lord won does in charity, as where he showed me, that I should sin. And for joy that I had in beholding of him, I attended not readily to that showing, and our courteous lord stopped there, and would not further teach me, till that he gave me grace and will to attend. And hereby was I learned, that though we be highly lifted up into contemplation

Starting point is 06:52:05 by the special gift of our Lord, yet it is needful to us therewith to have knowing and sight of our sin and our feebleness, for without this knowing we may not have true meekness, and without this meekness we may not be saved.

Starting point is 06:52:25 And afterward also, I saw that we may not have this knowing from ourselves, nor from none of all our spiritual enemies, for they will us not so great good. For if it were by their will, we should not see it until our ending day. Then be we greatly beholden to God, for that he will himself, for love,

Starting point is 06:52:52 show it to us in time of mercy and grace. End of Chapter 78. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 79 of Revelations of Divine, Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 16th Revelation, Chapter 79. I was taught that I should see mine own sin and not other men's sin, except it may be for comfort

Starting point is 06:53:33 and help of my fellow Christians. Also I had of this revelation more understanding, in that he showed us. me that I should sin, I took it nakedly to my own singular person, for I was none otherwise showed at that time. But by the high, gracious comfort of our Lord that followed after, I saw that his meaning was for the general man, that is to say, all man, which is sinful and shall be unto the last day, of which man I am a member, as I hope, by the mercy of God, for the blessed comfort that i saw it is large enough for us all and here was i learned that i should see mine own sin and not other men's sins but if it may be for comfort and help of mine even christians and also in this same showing where i saw that i should sin there was i learned to be in dread for unsureness of myself for i wot not for i wot not for i would not

Starting point is 06:54:42 how I shall fall, nor I know not the measure, nor the greatness of sin, for that would I have whist with dread, and thereto I had none answer. Also, our courteous lord, in the same time he showed full surely and mightily the endlessness and the unchangeability of his love, and afterward, that by his great goodness and his grace inwardly keeping, the love of him, the love of him, and our soul shall never be disparted in two without end. And thus in this dread I have matter of meekness that saveth me from presumption, and in the blessed showing of love I have matter of true comfort and of joy that saveth me from despair. All this homely showing of our courteous lord, it is a lovely lesson and a sweet,

Starting point is 06:55:40 gracious teaching of himself, in comforting of our soul. For he willeth that we should know by the sweetness and homely loving of him, that all that we see or feel within or without, that is contrary to this, is of the enemy, and not of God. And thus, if we be stirred to be the more reckless of our living, or of the keeping of our hearts because that we have knowing of this plenteous love, then need we greatly to beware, for this stirring if it come is untrue, and greatly we ought to hate it, for it all hath no likeness of God's will. And when that we be fallen, by frailty or blindness,

Starting point is 06:56:29 then our courteous lord toucheth us, and stirreth us, and calleth us, and then willeth he that we see our wretchedness, and meekly be aware of us. it but he willeth not that we abide thus nor he willeth not that we busy us greatly about our accusing nor he willeth not that we be wretched over ourself but he willeth that we hastily turn ourselves unto him for he standeth all aloof and abideth us sorrowfully and mournfully till when we come and have haste to have us to him for we are his joy and his delight and he is our salve and our life when i say he standeth all alone i leave the speaking of the blessed company of heaven and speak of his office and his working here on earth upon the condition of the showing End of Chapter 79. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 80 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich.

Starting point is 06:57:52 The 16th Revelation, Chapter 80. Himself is nearest and meekest, highest and lowest, and doeth all. Love suffereth never to be without pity. By three things man standeth in this life, by which three God is worshipped, and we be speeded, kept and saved. The first is use of man's reason natural. The second is common teaching of the Holy Church.

Starting point is 06:58:29 The third is, inward gracious working of the Holy Ghost. And these three be all of one God. God is the ground of our natural reason, and God the teaching of Holy Church, and God is the Holy Ghost, and all be sundry gifts to which he willeth that we have great regard and attend us thereto. For these work in us continually altogether,

Starting point is 06:59:01 and these be great things, of which great things he willeth that we have knowing here, as it were, in an ABC, that is to say, that we have a little knowing, whereof we shall have fullness in heaven, and that is for to speed us. We know in our faith that God alone took our nature, and none but he, and furthermore that Christ alone did all the works that belong to our salvation, and none but he and right so he alone doeth now the last end that is to say he dwelleth here with us and ruleth us and governeth us in this living and bringeth us to his bliss and this shall he do as long as any soul is in earth that shall come to heaven,

Starting point is 06:59:58 and so far forth that if there were no such soul but one, he should be withal alone till he had brought him up to his bliss. I believe and understand the ministration of angels, as Clark's tell us, but it was not showed me, for himself is nearest and meekest, highest and lowest, and doeth all, and not only all that we need, but also he doeth all that is worshipful to our joy in heaven. And where I say that he abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in ourself, in contrition and compassion, and all sorrowing and moaning that we are not one with our Lord,

Starting point is 07:00:49 and all such that is speedful, it is Christ in us. And though some of us feel it seldom, it passeth never from Christ, till what time He hath brought us out of all our woe. For love suffereth never to be without pity. And what time that we fall into sin, and leave the mind of him, and the keeping of our own soul, then keepeth Christ alone all the charge. And thus, standeth he sorrowfully and moaning. Then belongeth it to us for reverence and kindness, to turn us hastily to our Lord, and leave him not alone. He is here alone with us all, that is to say, only for us he is here. And what time I am strange to him by sin, despair or sloth, then I let my Lord stand alone, inasmuch as much as it is in me.

Starting point is 07:01:49 and thus it fareth with us all which be sinners. But though it be so that we do thus oftentimes, His goodness suffereth us never to be alone, but lastingly he is with us, and tenderly he excuseth us, and ever shieldeth us from blame in his sight. End of Chapter 80. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 81 of Revelations of Divine Love. Read for Librevox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich The 16th Revelation

Starting point is 07:02:37 Chapter 81 God seeth all our living a penance For nature longing of our love Is to him a lasting penance in us His love maketh him to long Our good Lord showed himself in diverse manners both in heaven and in earth, but I saw him take no place save in man's soul. He showed himself in earth, in the sweet incarnation, and in his blessed passion.

Starting point is 07:03:11 And in other manner he showed himself in earth, as in the revelation where I say, I saw God in a point, and in another manner he showed himself in earth, thus as it were in pilgrimage, that is to say, he is here with us, leading us, and shall be till when he hath brought us all to his bliss in heaven. He showed himself diverse times reigning, as it is aforesaid, but principally in man's soul. He hath taken there his resting place and his worshipful city, out of which worshipful sea he shall never rise nor remove without end. Marvelous and stately is the place where the Lord dwelleth, and therefore he willeth that we readily answer to his gracious touching,

Starting point is 07:04:05 more rejoicing in his whole love than sorrowing in our often fallings. For it is the most worship to him of anything 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, a penance, for nature's longing in us is to him eye-lasting penance in us, which penance he worketh in us, and mercifully he helpeth us to bear it. For his love maketh him to long for us, his wisdom and his truth and his rightfulness, maketh him to suffer us to be here.

Starting point is 07:04:51 And in this same manner of longing and abiding, he willeth to see it in. us, for this is our natural penance, and the highest as to my sight. For this penance goeth never from us till that time that we be fulfilled, when we shall have him to our meed, and therefore he willeth that we set our hearts in the overpassing, that is to say, from the pain that we feel, into the bliss that we trust. End of Chapter 81. This recording is in the public. domain. Chapter 82 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich. The 16th Revelation, Chapter 82. In falling and in

Starting point is 07:05:52 rising, we are ever preciously kept in one love. But here showed our courteous lord the moaning and the mourning of the soul, signifying thus, I know well thou wilt live for my love, joyously and gladly suffering all the penance that may come to thee. But inasmuch as thou thou livest not without sin, thou wouldest suffer for my love, all the woe, all the tribulation and distress that might come to thee, and it is sooth. But be not greatly aggrieved with sin that falleth to thee against thy will. And here I understood that which was showed, that the Lord beholdeth the servant with pity and not with blame.

Starting point is 07:06:43 For this passing life asketh not to live all without blame and sin. He loveth us endlessly, and we sin customably, and he showeth us full mildly, and then we sorrow and mourn discreetly, turning us unto the beholding of his mercy cleaving to his love and goodness seeing that he is our medicine perceiving that we do naught but sin and thus by the meekness we get by the sight of our sin faithfully knowing his everlasting love him thanking and praising we please him i love thee and thou lovest me and our loveest me and our love shall not be parted in two. For thy prophet I suffer these things to come. And all this was showed in spiritual understanding, saying these blessed words, I keep thee full surely. And by the great desire that I saw

Starting point is 07:07:48 in our blessed Lord that we shall live in this manner, that is to say in longing and enjoying, as all this lesson of love showeth, thereby I understood that that which is contrarious to us is not of him but of enmity, and he willeth that we know it by the sweet, gracious light of his kind love. If any such lover 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 beholds. For in the beholds, of God we fall not, and in the beholding of self we stand not. And both these manners of beholding be soothed as to my sight.

Starting point is 07:08:44 But the beholding of our Lord God is the highest soothness. Then are we greatly bound to God, for that He willeth in this living to show us this high soothness. And I understood that while we be in this life, it is full speedful to us that we see both these at once. For the higher beholding keepeth us in spiritual solace and true enjoying in God, and that other that is the lower beholding, keepeth us in dread, and maketh us ashamed of ourselves. But our good Lord willeth ever that we hold us much more in the beholding of the higher, and yet leave not the knowing of the lower, unto the time that we be brought up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus onto our mead,

Starting point is 07:09:38 and be fulfilled of joy and bliss without end. End of Chapter 82. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 83 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librivox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. Revelation chapter 83 life love and light i had in part touching sight and feeling in these three properties in god in which the strength and effect of all the revelation standeth and they were seen in every showing and most properly in the twelfth where it saith oftentimes it is i the properties are these, life, love, and light. In life is marvellous homeliness, and in love is gentle courtesy,

Starting point is 07:10:51 and in light is endless naturehood. These properties were in one goodness, unto which goodness my reason would be won, and cleave to it with all its might. I beheld with reverent dread, and highly marvelling in the sight and in the feeling of the sweet accord that our reason is in God, understanding that it is the highest gift that we have received, and it is grounded in nature. Our faith is a light by nature coming of our endless day that is our Father, God,

Starting point is 07:11:32 in which light our Mother, Christ, and our good Lord, the Holy Ghost, leadeth us in this passing life. This light is measured discreetly, needfully standing to us in the night. The light is cause of our life. The night is cause of our pain and of all our woe, in which we earn mead and thanks of God. For we, with mercy and grace,

Starting point is 07:12:02 steadfastly know and believe our light, going therein wisely and mightily. And at the end of woe, seeing our eyes shall be opened, and in clearness of light our sight shall be full, which light is God, our maker and holy ghost, in Christ Jesus our Saviour. Thus I saw and understood that our faith is our light in our night, which light is God

Starting point is 07:12:34 Our endless day End of Chapter 83 This recording is in the public domain Chapter 84 of Revelations of Divine Love Read for Librivox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love By Julian of Norwich

Starting point is 07:13:01 The 16th Revelation Chapter 84 Charity The Light is Charity charity, and the measuring of this light is done to us profitably by the wisdom of God. For neither is the light so large that we may see our blissful day, nor is it shot from us, but it is such a light in which we may live meedfully, with travail deserving the endless worship of God, and this was seen in the sixth showing where he said,

Starting point is 07:13:38 I thank thee of thy service and of thy travail. Thus charity keepeth us in faith and hope, and hope leadeth us in charity, and in the end all shall be charity. I had three manners of understanding of this light, charity. The first is charity unmade, the second is charity made, the third is charity given charity unmade is god charity made is our soul in god charity given is virtue and that is a precious gift of working in which we love god for himself and ourselves in god and that which god loveth for god

Starting point is 07:14:34 End of Chapter 84. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 85 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Barnes. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich. The 16th Revelation, Chapter 85. Lord, blessed mayest thou be, for it is thus, it is well. and in this sight I have marvelled highly, for notwithstanding our simple living and our blindness here, yet endlessly our courteous lord beholdeth us in this working, rejoicing, and of all things we may please him best wisely and truly to believe, and to enjoy with him and in him,

Starting point is 07:15:35 for as verily as we shall be in the bliss of God without end, praising and thanking, so verily we have been in the foresight of God, loved and known in his endless purpose from without beginning, in which unbegun love he made us, and in the same love he keepeth us, and never suffereth us to be hurt in manner by which our bliss might be lost. And therefore, when the doom is given, and we be all brought up above, then shall we clearly see in God the secret things which be now hid to us. Then shall none of us be stirred to say in any wise, Lord, if it had been thus, then it had been full well. But we shall say all with one voice, Lord, blessed mayst thou be, for it is thus, it is well.

Starting point is 07:16:37 And now see we verily that all thing is done as it was then ordained before that anything was made. End of Chapter 85. This recording is in the public domain. Chapter 86 of Revelations of Divine Love, read for Librevox.org by David Bowens. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich The 16th Revelation Chapter 86 Love was our Lord's meaning

Starting point is 07:17:18 This book is begun by God's gift and his grace But it is not yet performed as to my sight For charity, pray we all Together with God's working, thanking, trusting, enjoying. for thus will our good Lord be prayed to, as by the understanding that I took, of all his own meaning, and of the sweet words where he saith full merrily, I am the ground of thy beseeching. For truly I saw and understood in our Lord's meaning, that he showed it, for that he willeth to have it known more than it is, in which knowing he will give us grace to love us grace to love.

Starting point is 07:18:07 love him and cleave to him. For he beholdeth his heavenly treasure with so great love on earth, that he willeth to give us more light and solace in heavenly joy, in drawing to him of our hearts, for sorrow and darkness which we are in. And from that time that it was showed, I desired oftentimes to learn what was our Lord's meaning. And fifteen years after, and more, I was answered in ghostly understanding, saying thus, Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well.

Starting point is 07:18:49 Love was his meaning. Who showed it thee? Love. What showed he thee? Love. Wherefore showed it he? for love hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same but thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end thus was i learned that love was our lord's meaning and i saw full surely that ere god made us he loved us which love was never slacked nor ever shall be

Starting point is 07:19:29 and in this love he hath done all his works and in this love he hath made all things profitable to us and in this love our life is everlasting in our making we had beginning but the love wherein he made us was in him from without beginning in which love we have our beginning and all this shall we see in god without end End of Chapter 86. End of Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich.

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