And lastly, in this mystical vision of the oneness of man with God in Christ, man is seen not only as united in himself in the diverse parts of his nature, and as one with his fellow man, but as joined to that which is below him. How often of one good and another, as of that fair and sacred "service of the Mother"--"nearest, readiest, and surest"--"in the creatures by whom it is done," do we hear Julian's confident word of Sacramental declaration: "_It is Christ_." "For God is all that is good, as to my sight, and God hath made all that is 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," adds Julian, in words that are fitting to take for her courteous, her tender, "_Good Speed_" ere we pass to her book--altogether like her as they are, even to the careful, conditional "if" (for _nothing,_ not even comfort, behoves to be "overdone much"), "I hope by the grace of God he that beholdeth it thus shall be truly taught and mightily comforted, if he needeth comfort" (ix.). _Deus ubique est, et totus ubique est._ All things are gathered up in Man, and Man is gathered up in Christ; and Christ is gathered up in the Bosom of the Father. So the world of the lower creation makes promise: _All things are yours_; and the Church says over its offering, lifted up: _Ye are Christ's_; and from the stillness the voice of peace is heard: _And Christ is God's_. "All the promises of God in HIM are _Yea_ and in HIM _Amen_, unto the glory of God by us." All the promises of God: the blossom that floated to the ground; "the lily of a day" that "fell and died that night"; the "little Child, whiter than lily, that swiftly glided up into Heaven"--all the utterances silenced here--in Him are _Yea_ and in Him _Amen: Yea_ on earth and _Amen_ for ever. "_He turneth the shadow of death into the morning._" _May_ 1901. [1] _Theologia Germanica_, Chap. 1. [2] Blake's Poems. [3] _Memorabilia of Jesus_, by W. Peyton, p. 33. [4] Gilchrist's _Life and Works of William Blake_, vol. ii. [5] _Amor de Caritade_, by Jacopone da Todi (formerly ascribed to S. Francis of Assisi). [6] "_Quid me interrogas de bono? Unus est bonus, Deus._"--S. Matt. xix. 17. [8] _A Key to Wagner's Parsifal_, by H. von Wolzogen, tr. by Ashton Ellis. [9] Goodness is Active Love--love that moves. Drawing back from the finite creature, as a wave from the shore, it "suffers" sin's void to appear. But this lack of itself is allowed for the time, that so returning again in its force, to which evil is nothing, it may cover the desolate nature with deepness and highness and fulness unknown before. (See lvii.). REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE CHAPTER I "A Revelation of Love--in Sixteen Shewings"