 This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. 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 thorns, and their with was comprehended and specified the Trinity, with the Incarnation, and unity between God and man's soul. With many fair showings of endless wisdom and teachings of love, in which all the showings that followed be grounded and wanded. 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, with plenty of 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 rewarded his blessed servants in heaven. The seventh is our often feeling of will and woe. The feeling of will is gracious touching and lightening, with true assuredness of endless joy. The feeling of woe is temptation by heaviness and irksomeness of our fleshly living. With ghostly understanding that we are kept all as securely in love in woe as in will 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 joined pleasing he willeth that we be solaced and mirthed 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. The eleventh is an high ghostly showing of his dear worthy mother. The twelfth is that our Lord is most worthy being. The thirteenth 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, 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 sayeth, 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 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, where 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 Saviour, endlessly dwelleth in our soul, worshipfully ruling and protecting all things, us mightily and wisely saving and keeping for love, and we shall not be overcome of our enemy. REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE by Julian of Norwich Read for LibriVox.org by David Barnes REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE CHAPTER II A SIMPLE CREATURE UNLEADED Which creature afford desired three gifts of God? These revelations were showed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord, 1373, the thirteenth day of May, which creature had afford 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, me thought I had some feeling in the passion of Christ, but yet I desired more by the grace of God, me 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 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 them and suffer with him, other sight nor showing of God desired I never none till the soul were disparted 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, 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 not 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, 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 are foresaid past from my mind but the third dwelled with me continually. End of Chapter 2 Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich Read for LibriVox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love, Chapter 3 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 weened not to have lived till day and after this I langued forth two days and two nights and on the third night I weened often times to have passed and so weened 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 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 duered till day and by then my body was dead from the middle downwards as to my feeling then was I minded to be set up right backward leaning with help for to have more freedom of my heart to be at God's will and thinking on God while my life would last 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 there upon and comfort thee therewith me thought I was well as it was for my eyes were set uprightward unto heaven 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 duer 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 image of the cross where upon I beheld a common light and I wished 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 specially 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 for me thought I had left for 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 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 filled my heart with utmost joy In this moment suddenly I saw the red blood trickle down from under the garland hot and freshly and right plentiously 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 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 domine this I said for reverence in my meaning with mighty voice and full greatly was astounded for wonder and marvel that I had that he that is so reverent and dreadful will be so homely 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 through this sight of the blessed passion with the Godhead that I saw in my understanding I knew well that it was strength enough for me yea and for all creatures living against all the fiends of hell and ghostly 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 waxin above a child in the stature that she was when she conceived also God showed in part the wisdom and the truth of her soul wherein I understood the reverent beholding in which she beheld her God and maker marveling 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 God's hand made in this sight I understood soothly that she is more than all that God made beneath her in worthiness and grace for above her is nothing that is made 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 5 God of thy goodness give me thyself Only in thee I have all In this same time our Lord showed me a spiritual sight of his only loving I saw that he is to us everything that is good and comfortable for us He is our clothing that for love wrapeth us claspeth us and all encloseeth 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 there upon 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 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 warned 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 is made betwixt my God and me it needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to holdest 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 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 pleasants 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 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 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 there unto by his grace with true understanding and steadfast love 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 for 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 it is nearest in nature and readyest 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 hole 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 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 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 know 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 reverent 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 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 specially if he showeth it himself of a full true meaning and with a glad cheer both privately and in company then think if this poor creature thus and what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me that I'm so simple this marvellous homeliness soothly it is more joy and pleasant to me than if he gave me great gift and were himself strange in manner this bodily example was showed so highly that man's heart might be ravished and almost forgetting itself for joy of the great homeliness thus it faireth 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 and loblest 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 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 deserve it 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 past and hid 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 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 domine in which showing I understood six things the first is the tokens of the blessed passion and the plenteous shedding of his precious blood the second is the maiden that is his dear 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 watch 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 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 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 dwelled in my understanding and I abode with reverent dread joying in that I saw 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 today doomsday with me and this I said for that I thought to have died for that day that a man dyeth 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 in example for in all this time I weaned to have died and that was marvel to me and trouble us partly 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 profit that he leave the beholding of a poor creature that it was showed to 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 he take it with great joy and pleasant 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 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 in as much 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 want it well but I say it to you that be simple for ease and comfort 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 showing 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 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 beholdeth it thus shall be truly taught and mightily comforted if he needeth comfort I speak of them that shall be saved 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 a forehand 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 there unto and with this intent I beheld the showing with all my diligence 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 say by bodily sight and by word formed in my 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 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 languering pains more than I can tell and often changing of colour and one time I saw half the face beginning at the ear overgone with dry blood till it covered to the mid-face and after that the other half was covered on the same wise the whilst in this first part it vanished even as it came this saw I bodily troblously 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 thee needeth none but him 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 and this is and should be our common working in this life as to my sight one time my 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 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 over passing 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 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 and the beholding mourning full of dread and longing for I was some time 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 that our fair, bright, blessed Lord bear for our sins it made me think truly vernacular 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 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 manner wise 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 and over passing 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 a twist 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 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 till what time his fair colour was changed with travail and sorrow and passion and dying of this it is spoken in the 8th 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 roofily and deathlike as it may be seen in the 8th Revelation and this dim vision was a learning to my understanding that the continual seeking of the soul pleaseeth God full greatly for it may do no more than seek and 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 with faith hope and charity pleaseeth our Lord and the finding pleaseeth the soul and fulfileth it with joy and thus was I learned to my in understanding that the 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 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 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 sodden and he willeth to be trusted for he is full gracious and homely blessed may he be 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 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 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 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 grants 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 there too needeth neither the working of mercy nor grace for they be all rightful wherein faileth not but in another time he gave a showing for the beholding of sin nakedly as I shall tell where he useeth working of mercy and grace and this vision was showed to my 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 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 changeeth 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 and therefore all thing was set in order anything was made as it should stand without end and no manner of thing 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 soothly that me behoved of need to ascent 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 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 plenteously bleeding in seeming of the scourging as thus the fair skin was broken full deep into the tender flesh with sharp smiting all about the sweet body so plenteously 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 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 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 plenteous behold and see the precious plente of his dear worthy blood descended down into hell and burst her bands and delivered all that were there which belonged to the court of heaven the precious plente 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 plente 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 ever more 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 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 and all intellect that was therein as the simplicity of the soul might take it then he without 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 so he travaileth and as continually he seeeth that all souls of salvation escape him 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 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 with might and right he withstandeth the reproved the witch of malice and wickedness busy them to contrive and to do against God's will also I saw our Lord scorn his malice and set at nought his on 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 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 verity without changing of look for as to my sight it is a worshipful property of God's 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 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 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 my understanding was lifted up into heaven 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 fulfilled 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 that he shall receive when he is delivered of pain This thanking is so high and so worshipful that the soul thinketh at Philith 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 And here this example was showed a king, if he thank his servants it is a great worship to them 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 specially the age of them that willingly and freely offer their youth unto God passingly is rewarded and wonderfully is thanked For I saw that when ere what time a man or woman is truly turned to God for one day's service 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 lever he is to serve him all the days of his life End of Chapter 14 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 15 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 presence 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 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 hope and charity and these I had in truth but little in feeling and and on 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 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 my understanding for that it is speedful to some souls to feel on this wise some time 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 and for profit of man's soul a man is some time left to himself although sin is not always the cause for in this time I sinned not wherefore 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 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 Eighth Revelation Chapter 16 A Part of His Passion After this Christ showed a part of his passion near his dying I saw his 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 colors though it were a four 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 and the sweet body was brown and black all turned out of fair life-like colour of itself and to 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 there from yet there dwell the moisture in the sweet flesh of Christ as it was showed the sweetness and pain dried within 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 dying at the point of out passing 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 shrunken, so deathly and so piteous as if he had been seven nights dead continually dying and me thought 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 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 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 and grievousness of the nails the wounds waxed wide and the body sagged for weight by long time hanging and therefore was piercing and pressing of the 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 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 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 and I beheld and marveled 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 colour 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 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 my 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 the witch showing of Christ's pains filled me full of pain for I whisked well he suffered but once but this was as if he would show it me and fill me with mind as I had a fore 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 and as a wretch repented me thinking if I had whisked what it had been loath 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 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 Read for LibriVox.org by David Barnes Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich The Eighth 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 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 over passing 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 my 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 my understanding for when he was in pain we were in pain and all creatures that might suffer pain suffered with him 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 pilot the other was Saint Dionysi of France which was at that time a painim 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 right 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 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 nought for us and all we stand in this manner made nought with him and shall do till we come to his bliss as I shall tell after End of Chapter 18 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 wished well that while I beheld in the cross I was surely safe therefore I would not ascend 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 nothing betwixt the cross and heaven that might have harmed me either me behoved to look up or else to answer 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 leave for have been in that pain till doomsday than to come to heaven for I wished 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 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 and though I as a wretched creature had repented me I said afore if I had whisked what pain it would be I had been loath to have prayed truly that it was reluctance and frailty of the flesh without a scent 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 flesh-hood and pain and woe and shall be in this life 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 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 warned unto our Lord Jesus that the outward part should draw the inward to a scent was not showed to me but that the inward draweth the outward by grace and both shall be warned 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 Revelation chapter 20 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 languing long time for the oneing with the Godhead gave strength to the manhood and to the love to suffer more than all men might suffer I mean not only more pain than all men might suffer 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 death for he that is highest and worthiest was most fully made 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 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 sorrowed for kindness and love for in as much 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 up risen 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 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 or 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 The Eighth Revelation Chapter 21 We be 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 my 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 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 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 full blessed 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 mead that might have pleased him better the first heaven that is the pleasing of the father 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 mead we be his worship we be his crown 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 nought 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 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 my 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 nought for love 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 proffer that our Lord God might make in sight then me nith 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 so I for the second beholding in this blessed passion the love that made him to soffer passeth as far all his pains and is above earth for the pains was a noble worshipful deed done in a time by the working of love 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 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 ninth revelation chapter 23 the glad giver all the trinity wrought in the passion of Jesus Christ 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 and here saw I for the third beholding the 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 plentious bleeding of the body in seeming as from the scourging the fourth is the deep dying these four are a foretold 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 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 tomorrow so long doeth the cost and the charge about our redemption indeed of the which deed he enjoyeth endlessly as it is a foresaid 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 a foresaid that is to say the enjoying of our salvation be as like to the joy that Christ hath 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 son suffered whereof all the blessed trinity endlessly enjoyeth all this was shown me in these words art thou well pleased and by that other word that Christ said if thou art pleased then am I pleased as if he said it is joy and satisfying enough to me and I ask not 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 seteth at nought all his cost and all his travail for joy and delight that he hath pleased that he loveth plentiously and fully was this showed think also wisely of the greatness of this word ever for in it was showed and high knowing of love that he hath in our salvation with manyfold 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 chapter 24 of revelations of divine love read for LibriVox.org by David Barnes revelations of divine love by Julian of Norwich the tenth 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 full place and large enough for all 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 into and with this sweet enjoying he showed unto mine understanding in part the blessed God-head 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 and an endless joy see what satisfying and bliss I have in thy salvation and for my love rejoice thou with me 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 granted thee for my pleasing is thy holiness and thine endless joy and bliss with me 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 11th revelation chapter 25 I what 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 what well that thou wouldst see my blessed mother for after myself she is the highest joy that I might show thee and much pleasant and worship to me and most she is desired to be seen of my blessed creatures and for the high marvelous singular love that he hath to this sweet maiden his blessed mother our lady saint 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 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 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 ye good Lord I thank thee if it be thy will often times I prayed this and I weened to have seen her in bodily presence but I saw her not so and Jesus in that word showed me ghostly sight of her right as I had seen her a four 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 presence that he hath in her 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 presence in that creature that he loveth so greatly 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 showing 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 with sorrows under the cross the third is as she is now in pleasing worship and joy end of