The fourteenth-century anchoress known as Julian of Norwich offered fervent prayers for a deeper understanding of Christ's passion. The holy woman's petitions were answered with a series of divine revelations that she called `showings.` Her mystic visions revealed Christ's sufferings with extreme intensity, but they also confirmed God's constant love for humanity and his infinite capacity for forgiveness. Julian of Norwich's Revelations have had a lasting influence on Christian thought. Written in immediate, compelling terms, her experiences remain among the most original and accessible expressions of medieval mysticism. This edition contains both the short text—which is mainly an account of the `showings` themselves and Julian's initial analysis of their meaning—as well as the long text, completed some 20 years later and offering daringly speculative interpretations.
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INTRODUCTION
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REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE - REVELATIONS TO ONE WHO COULD NOT READ A LETTER, ANNO DÑI, 1373
THE FIRST CHAPTER - Of the number of the Revelations particularly
THE SECOND CHAPTER - Of the time of these Revelations, and how she asked three petitions
THE THIRD CHAPTER - Of the sickness obtained of God by petition
THE FOURTH CHAPTER - Here beginneth the First Revelation of the precious crowning of Christ
THE FIFTH CHAPTER - How God is to us everything that is good, tenderly wrapping us
THE SIXTH CHAPTER - How we should pray, and of the great tender love that our Lord hath to man’s soul
THE SEVENTH CHAPTER - How our Lady, beholding the greatness of her Maker, thought herself less: and how the most joy to man is that God, most high and mighty, is homeliest and most courteous
THE EIGHTH CHAPTER - A recapitulation of that that is said, and how it was shewed to her generally for all
THE NINTH CHAPTER - Of the meekness of this woman, keeping her alway in the faith of Holy Church; and how he that loveth his even-Christian for God loveth all things
THE TENTH CHAPTER - The Second Revelation is of his discolouring, and of our Redemption, and the discolouring of the Vernacle, and how it pleaseth God that we seek him busily
THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER - The Third Revelation is how God doth all things except sin, never changing his purpose without end: for he hath made all things in fulness of goodness
THE TWELFTH CHAPTER - The Fourth Revelation is how it liketh God rather and better to wash us in his Blood from sin, than in water: for his Blood is most precious
THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER - The Fifth Revelation is that the temptation of the fiend is overcome by the Passion of Christ, to the increase of our joy and of his pain, everlastingly
THE FOURTEENTH CHAPTER - The Sixth Revelation is of the worshipful thanks with which he rewardeth his servants, and how it hath three joys
THE FIFTEENTH CHAPTER - The Seventh Revelation is of oftentimes feeling of weal and woe : and how it is expedient that man sometimes be left without comfort, and that sin is not the cause of this
THE SIXTEENTH CHAPTER - The Eighth Revelation is of the last piteous pains of Christ’s dying and discolouring of his face and drying of his flesh
THE SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER - Of the grievous bodily thirst of Christ, caused four-wise, and of his piteous crowning, and of the most pain to a kind lover
THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER - Of the spiritual martyrdom of our Lady and other lovers of Christ, and how all things suffered with him good and evil
THE NINETEENTH CHAPTER - Of the comfortable beholding of the crucifix, and how the desire of the flesh, without consent of the soul, is no sin, and the flesh must be in pain, suffering till both be oned to Christ
THE TWENTIETH CHAPTER - Of the unspeakable Passion of Christ, and of three things of the Passion always to be remembered
THE TWENTY-FIRST CHAPTER - Of three beholdings in the Passion of Christ, and how we were dying on the cross with Christ; but his cheer putteth away all pain
THE TWENTY-SECOND CHAPTER - The Ninth Revelation is the looking of three heavens, and the infinite love of Christ desiring every day to suffer for us if he might, although it is not needful
THE TWENTY-THIRD CHAPTER - How Christ willeth that we joy with him greatly in our Redemption and desire grace of him that we may do so
THE TWENTY-FOURTH CHAPTER - The Tenth Revelation is that our Lord Jesus Christ sheweth in love his blessed Heart cloven in two, rejoicing
THE TWENTY-FIFTH CHAPTER - The Eleventh Revelation is an high ghostly shewing of his blessed Mother
THE TWENTY-SIXTH CHAPTER - The Twelfth Revelation is that the Lord our God is all Sovereign Being
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER - The Thirteenth Revelation is that our Lord God willeth that we have great regard to all his deeds that he hath done in the great nobility of making all things, and how sin is not known but by the pain
THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER - How the children of salvation shall be shaken in sorrows, but Christ rejoiceth with compassion; a remedy against tribulation
THE TWENTY-NINTH CHAPTER - Adam’s sin was greatest, but the satisfaction for it is more pleasing to God than ever was the sin harmful
THE THIRTIETH CHAPTER - How we should joy and trust in our Saviour, Jesus; not presuming to know his privy counsel
THE THIRTY-FIRST CHAPTER - Of the longing and the ghostly thirst of Christ, which lasteth and shall last till Doomsday; and by reason of his body he is not yet fully glorified, nor all impassible
THE THIRTY-SECOND CHAPTER - How all things shall be well, and Scripture fulfilled, and we must steadfastly hold us in the Faith of Holy Church, as is Christ’s will
THE THIRTY-THIRD CHAPTER - All damned souls be despised in God’s sight, as the devils. These Revelations withdraw not the Faith of Holy Church, but comfort; and the more we busy [ourselves] to know God’s secrets, the less we know
THE THIRTY-FOURTH CHAPTER - God sheweth the privities necessary to his lovers; and how they please God much that receive diligently the preaching of Holy Church
THE THIRTY-FIFTH CHAPTER - How God doth all that is good, and suffereth all worshipfully by his mercy, the which shall shine when sin is no longer suffered
THE THIRTY-SIXTH CHAPTER - Of another excellent deed our Lord shall do, which, by grace, may be learned in part here; and how we should joy in the same, and how God yet doeth miracles
THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER - God keepeth his chosen full securely, although they sin; for that in these is a godly will, that never assenteth to sin
THE THIRTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER - Sins of the chosen shall be turned to joy and worship. Examples of David, St Peter, and St John of Beverley
THE THIRTY-NINTH CHAPTER - Of the sharpness of sin and the goodness of contrition; and how our kind Lord willeth not that we despair for often falling
THE FORTIETH CHAPTER - The vileness of sin passeth all pains, and God loveth us well tenderly while we be in sin, and so us needeth to love our neighbour
THE FORTY-FIRST CHAPTER - The Fourteenth Revelation is as aforesaid; how it is impossible we should pray for mercy and want it: and how God willeth we pray alway, though we be dry and barren, for that prayer is to him acceptable and pleasant
THE FORTY-SECOND CHAPTER - Of three things that belong to prayer: How we should pray. Of the goodness of God that supplieth always our imperfections and feebleness when we do that which belongeth to us to do
THE FORTY-THIRD CHAPTER - What prayer doth when ordained to God’s will; and how the goodness of God hath great liking in the deeds that he doth by us, as if he were beholden to us, working all things full sweetly
THE FORTY-FOURTH CHAPTER - Of the properties of the Trinity, and how a creature hath the same properties, doing that which it was made for, seeing, beholding, and marvelling at his God, so that he seemeth to himself as naught
THE FORTY-FIFTH CHAPTER - Of the deep judgement of God and the variant judgement of men
THE FORTY-SIXTH CHAPTER - We cannot know ourselves in this life but by faith and grace, but we must know ourselves sinners, and how sinful. God is never wroth, being most near the soul, it keeping
THE FORTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER - We must reverently marvel and meekly suffer, ever joying in God; and how our blindness, in that we see not God, is because of sin
THE FORTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER - Of mercy and grace and their properties; and how we shall rejoice that ever we suffered woe patiently
THE FORTY-NINTH CHAPTER - Our life is grounded in love, without the which we perish. Yet God is never wroth, but in our wrath and sin he mercifully keepeth us and treateth with us for peace, rewarding our tribulations
THE FIFTIETH CHAPTER - How the chosen soul was never dead in the sight of God; of a marvel upon the same; three things emboldened her to ask God the understanding of it
THE FIFTY-FIRST CHAPTER - The answer to the doubt aforesaid, by a marvellous example of our Lord as a servant
THE FIFTY-SECOND CHAPTER - God rejoiceth that he is our Father, Brother, and Spouse. How the chosen have here a medley of weal and woe; and how we may eschew sin
THE FIFTY-THIRD CHAPTER - The kindness of God assigneth no blame to his chosen, for in these is a godly will that never consenteth to sin. For it behoveth the mercy of God to be knit to these, that there be a substance kept that may never be parted from him
THE FIFTY-FOURTH CHAPTER - We ought to rejoice that God dwelleth in our soul and our soul in God, so that betwixt God and our soul is nothing, but, as it were, all God; and how faith is the ground of all virtue in our soul by the Holy Ghost
THE FIFTY-FIFTH CHAPTER - Christ is our way, leading and presenting us to the Father, forthwith as the soul is infused into the body, mercy and grace working
THE FIFTY-SIXTH CHAPTER - It is easier to know God than our own soul, for God is nearer to us than that: therefore, if we will have knowing of it, we must seek into God
THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER - In our substance we be full, in our sensuality we fail, which God will repair by mercy and grace. How our kind which is the higher part is knit to God in the making, and Jesus is knit to our kind in the lower part, in our flesh-taking. Mary is our mother
THE FIFTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER - God was never displeased with his chosen wife. Of three properties in the Trinity: Fatherhood, Motherhood, and Lordhood. How our substance is in every person, but our sensuality is in Christ alone
THE FIFTY-NINTH CHAPTER - Wickedness is turned into bliss by mercy and grace in the chosen, for the property of God is to do good against ill, by Jesus our Mother in kind grace
THE SIXTIETH CHAPTER - Of our sweet, kind, ever-loving Mother, Jesus : and of the property of motherhood. Jesus is our very Mother, not feeding us with milk, but with himself; opening his side to us, and challenging all our love
THE SIXTY-FIRST CHAPTER - Jesus suffereth us to fall and happily raiseth us; not breaking his love for our trespass, for he willeth that we have the property of a child, fleeing to him alway in our necessity
THE SIXTY-SECOND CHAPTER - The Love of God never suffereth his chosen to lose time, for all their trouble is turned into endless joy
THE SIXTY-THIRD CHAPTER - Sin is more painful than hell, and vile and hurting to kind, but grace saveth kind and destroyeth sin
THE SIXTY-FOURTH CHAPTER - The Fifteenth Revelation is as it is shewed. How the absence of God in this life is our full great pain, beside other travail
THE SIXTY-FIFTH CHAPTER - How he that chooseth God for love, with reverend meekness, is sure to be saved: which reverend meekness seeth the Lord marvellous great and the self marvellous little; and it is God’s will we dread nothing but him
THE SIXTY-SIXTH CHAPTER - The Sixteenth Revelation is a conclusion and confirmation to all Fifteen. Of her frailty and mourning in dis-ease, and light speaking after the great comfort of Jesus: yet the devil, after that, had great power to vex her
THE SIXTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER - Of the worshipfulness of the soul, which is so nobly made that it might not better be made; in which the Trinity rejoiceth everlastingly. The soul may have rest in nothing but God, which sitteth therein ruling all things
THE SIXTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER - Of soothfast knowing that it is Jesus that showed all this and it was no raving; and how we ought to have sure trust in all our tribulations that we shall not be overcome
THE SIXTY-NINTH CHAPTER - Of the second long temptation of the devil to despair; but she mightily looked to God and to the faith of Holy Church, rehearsing the Passion of Christ, by the which she was delivered
THE SEVENTIETH CHAPTER - In all tribulation we ought to be steadfast in the faith, trusting mightily in God
THE SEVENTY-FIRST CHAPTER - Jesus willeth our soul to be in good cheer to him ; and how he sheweth us three manner of cheer
THE SEVENTY-SECOND CHAPTER - Sin in the chosen souls is deadly for a time, but they be not dead in the sight of God
THE SEVENTY-THIRD CHAPTER - Of two ghostly sicknesses, of which God willeth that we amend us, remembering his Passion, knowing also that he is all love
THE SEVENTY-FOURTH CHAPTER - There be four manner of dreads: but reverent dread is a lovely fear that never is without meek love, and yet they be not both one
THE SEVENTY-FIFTH CHAPTER - Us needeth love, longing, and pity. Of three manners of longing in God which are in us
THE SEVENTY-SIXTH CHAPTER - A loving soul hateth sin for vileness more than all the pain of hell: and how the beholding of other men’s sins, unless it be with compassion, letteth the beholding of God
THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER - Of the enmity of the Fiend, which loseth more in our uprising than he winneth by our falling, and therefore he is scorned
THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER - Our Lord willeth that we know four manner of goodness that he doeth to us : and how we need the light of grace to know our sin and feebleness
THE SEVENTY-NINTH CHAPTER - We must be mindful of our sin, and not of our neighbours’, but for their help. If we fall we must hastily rise, or else we are greatly unkind to God
THE EIGHTIETH CHAPTER - By three things God is worshipped and we saved
THE EIGHTY-FIRST CHAPTER - This blessed woman saw God in divers manners, but she saw him take no resting place but in man’s soul
THE EIGHTY-SECOND CHAPTER - God beholdeth the mourning of the soul with pity and not with blame, and yet we do naught but sin
THE EIGHTY-THIRD CHAPTER - Of three properties in God, life, love, and light, and that our reason is in God according
THE EIGHTY-FOURTH CHAPTER - Charity is this light, for faith and hope lead us to charity
THE EIGHTY-FIFTH CHAPTER - God loved his chosen from without beginning. How privities now hidden shall be known in heaven, wherefore we shall bless our Lord that everything is so well ordained
THE EIGHTY-SIXTH CHAPTER - The good Lord shewed that this book should be otherwise performed than at the first writing; for, fifteen years after, it was answered that the cause of all this shewing was love. Which may Jesus grant us. Amen.
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