REVELATIONS of DIVINE LOVE Recorded by JULIAN, Anchoress at _NORWICH_ ANNO DOMINI 1373 _In lumine tuo videbimus lumen_ A version from the MS. in the BRITISH MUSEUM edited by GRACE WARRACK Methuen & Company 36 Essex Street Strand London 1901 DOMINI, REFUGIUM FACTUS ES NOBIS, A GENERATIONE IN GENERATIONEM. RESPICE IN SERVOS TUOS, ET IN OPERA TUA: ET DIRIGE FILIOS EORUM. ET SIT SPLENDOR DOMINI DEI NOSTRI SUPER NOS, ET OPERA MANUUM NOSTRARUM DIRIGE SUPER NOS: ET OPUS MANUUM NOSTRARUM DIRIGE. "Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is a holy, marvelling delight in God; which is Love." CONTENTS PAGE I. NOTES ON MANUSCRIPTS AND EDITIONS OF THIS BOOK. xi II. NOTE AS TO TWO JULIANS. xv III. INTRODUCTION:-- Part I. The Lady Julian. xvii Part II. The Manner of the Book. xxxiii Part III. The Theme of the Book. lv IV. "REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE":-- (_editorial account_) i. A List of Contents, called "A Particular of the Chapters". 1 ii.-iii. Autobiographical. 3 iv.-ix. _The First Revelation_: The Trinity is shewn, through the Suffering of Christ, as Goodness, or Love all-working. 8 x. _The Second Revelation_: Man's Sight of God's Love is but partial because of sin's darkness. 21 xi. _The Third Revelation_: All Being is Being of God and is good: Sin is no Being. 26 xii. _The Fourth Revelation_: The stain of sin through lacking of human love is cleared away by the Death of Christ in His Love. 29 xiii. _The Fifth Revelation_: By Love's Sacrifice, in Christ, the evil suffered, for Love's Increase, to rise, is overcome for ever. 30 xiv. _The Sixth Revelation_: The travail of Man against evil on earth is a glory accepted by Love in Heaven. 33 xv. _The Seventh Revelation:_ It is of God's Will, for our learning, that on earth we change between joy of light and pain of darkness. 34 xvi.-xxi. _The Eighth Revelation:_ Of the oneness of God and Man in the Passion of Christ, through Compassion of the Creature with Christ and of Christ with the Creature. All compassion in men is Christ in men. 36