Revelations of Divine Love

REVELATIONS
                            of DIVINE LOVE
                          Recorded by JULIAN,
                        Anchoress at _NORWICH_
                           ANNO DOMINI 1373


                    _In lumine tuo videbimus lumen_


                        A version from the MS.
                         in the BRITISH MUSEUM
                               edited by
                             GRACE WARRACK


                           Methuen & Company
                        36 Essex Street Strand
                                London
                                 1901






    DOMINI, REFUGIUM FACTUS ES NOBIS, A GENERATIONE IN GENERATIONEM.
    RESPICE IN SERVOS TUOS, ET IN OPERA TUA: ET DIRIGE FILIOS EORUM.
    ET SIT SPLENDOR DOMINI DEI NOSTRI SUPER NOS, ET OPERA MANUUM
      NOSTRARUM DIRIGE SUPER NOS: ET OPUS MANUUM NOSTRARUM DIRIGE.

"Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the
third: that is a holy, marvelling delight in God; which is Love."






                               CONTENTS

                                                      PAGE
 I.
 NOTES ON MANUSCRIPTS AND EDITIONS OF THIS BOOK.        xi

 II.
 NOTE AS TO TWO JULIANS.                                xv

 III.
 INTRODUCTION:--
 Part I. The Lady Julian.                             xvii
 Part II.  The Manner of the Book.                  xxxiii
 Part III. The Theme of the Book.                       lv

 IV.
 "REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE":--
 (_editorial account_)

 i.
 A List of Contents, called "A Particular of the
 Chapters".                                              1

 ii.-iii.
 Autobiographical.                                       3

 iv.-ix.
 _The First Revelation_: The Trinity is shewn,
 through the  Suffering of Christ, as Goodness,
 or Love all-working.                                    8

 x.
 _The Second Revelation_: Man's Sight of God's
 Love is but partial  because of sin's darkness.        21

 xi.
 _The Third Revelation_: All Being is Being of
 God and is good: Sin  is no Being.                     26

 xii.
 _The Fourth Revelation_: The stain of sin through
 lacking of  human love is cleared away by the
 Death of Christ in His Love.                           29

 xiii.
 _The Fifth Revelation_: By Love's Sacrifice,
 in Christ, the evil suffered, for Love's
 Increase, to rise, is overcome for ever.               30

 xiv.
 _The Sixth Revelation_: The travail of Man
 against evil on earth is a glory accepted
 by Love in Heaven.                                     33

 xv.
 _The Seventh Revelation:_ It is of God's Will,
 for our learning, that on earth we change between
 joy of light and pain of darkness.                     34

 xvi.-xxi.
 _The Eighth Revelation:_ Of the oneness
 of God and Man in the Passion of Christ, through
 Compassion of the Creature with Christ and of
 Christ with the Creature. All compassion in men
 is Christ in men.                                      36

 xxii.-xxiii.
 _The Ninth Revelation_: Of the worshipful entering
 of Man's soul into the Joy of Love Divine in the
 Passion.                                               46

 xxiv.
 _The Tenth Revelation_: Of the thankful entering
 of the soul into the Peace of _the Endless Love_
 opened up for Man in the time of the Passion.          51

 xxv.
 _The Eleventh Revelation:_ Of Christ's Raising,
 Fulfilling Love to the souls of men, as beheld
 in the love between Him and His Mother.                52

 xxvi.
 _The Twelfth Revelation:_ All that the soul
 lives by and loves is God, through Christ.             54

 xxvii.-xl.
 _The Thirteenth Revelation:_ Man's finite love
 was suffered  by Infinite Love to fail, that
 falling thus through sin into pain and death
 of darkness, the creature therein might more
 deeply know his need and more highly know, in
 its succouring strength, the Creator's Love,
 as the Saviour's; that so being raised, and for
 ever held clinging to that through the grace of
 the Holy Ghost, he might rise to fuller and
 higher and endless oneness with God.                   55

 xli.-xliii.
 _The Fourteenth Revelation:_ Beginning on
 earth, Prayer makes the soul one with God.             84

 xliv.-lxiii.
 Regarding these Revelations and the Christian
 Life of Love's travail on earth against sin.           93

 lxiv.-lxv.
 _The Fifteenth Revelation_ (Closing): Of
 Love's Fulfilment in Heaven.                          159

 lxvi.
 Autobiographical: The fall through frailty of
 nature, by self-regarding, into doubt of the
 Shewing of Love; the rescue by mercy; the
 assaying of faith and the overcoming by grace.        164

 lxvii.-lxviii.
 _The Sixteenth Revelation_ (Confirming): The
 Indwelling of God In the Soul, now and for ever.
 "_Thou shalt not be overcome._"                       167

 lxix.
 Autobiographical: The second assaying of faith,
 through the horror of spiritual darkness; the
 overcoming by virtue of the Passion of Christ,
 with help from the Common Belief of the
 Christian Fellowship.