Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian
CHAPTER LXIII
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"As verily as sin is unclean, so verily is it unkind"--a disease or
monstrous thing against nature. "He shall heal us full fair."
Here may we see that we have verily of Nature to hate sin, and we have
verily of Grace to hate sin. For Nature is all good and fair in itself,
and Grace was sent out to save Nature and destroy sin, and bring again
fair nature to the blessed point from whence it came: that is God; with
more nobleness and worship by the virtuous working of Grace. For it
shall be seen afore God by all His Holy in joy without end that Nature
hath been assayed in the fire of tribulation and therein hath been
found no flaw, no fault.[1] Thus are Nature and Grace of one accord:
for Grace is God, as Nature is God: He is two in manner of working and
one in love; and neither of these worketh without other: they be not
disparted.
And when we by Mercy of God and with His help accord us to Nature and
Grace, we shall see verily that sin is in sooth viler and more painful
than hell, without likeness: for it is contrary to our fair nature. For
as verily as sin is unclean, so verily is it unnatural,[2] and thus an
horrible thing to see for the loved[3] soul that would be all fair and
shining in the sight of God, as Nature and Grace teacheth.
Yet be we not adread of this, save inasmuch as dread may speed us:
but meekly make we our moan to our dearworthy Mother, and He shall
besprinkle us in His precious blood and make our soul full soft and
full mild, and heal us full fair by process of time, right as it is
most worship to Him and joy to us without end. And of this sweet fair
working He shall never cease nor stint till all His dearworthy children
be born and forthbrought. (And that shewed He where He shewed [me]
understanding of the ghostly Thirst, that is the love-longing that
shall last till Doomsday.)
Thus in [our] Very Mother, Jesus, our life is grounded, in the
foreseeing Wisdom of Himself from without beginning, with the high
Might of the Father, the high sovereign Goodness of the Holy Ghost. And
in the taking of our nature He quickened us; in His blessed dying upon
the Cross He bare us to endless life; and from that time, and now, and
evermore unto Doomsday, He feedeth us and furthereth us: even as that
high sovereign Kindness of Motherhood, and as Kindly need of Childhood
asketh.
Fair and sweet is our Heavenly Mother in the sight of our souls;
precious and lovely are the Gracious Children in the sight of our
Heavenly Mother, with mildness and meekness, and all the fair virtues
that belong to children in Nature. For of nature the Child despaireth
not of the Mother's love, of nature the Child presumeth not of itself,
of nature the Child loveth the Mother and each one of the other
[children]. These are the fair virtues, with all other that be like,
wherewith our Heavenly Mother is served and pleased.
And I understood none higher stature in this life than Childhood,
in feebleness and failing of might and of wit, unto the time that
our Gracious Mother hath brought us up to our Father's Bliss.[4] And
then shall it verily be known to us His meaning in those sweet words
where He saith: _All shall be well: and thou shalt see, thyself, that
all manner of things shall be well_. And then shall the Bliss of our
Mother, in Christ, be new to begin in the Joys of our God: which new
beginning shall last without end, new beginning.
Thus I understood that all His blessed children which be come out of
Him by Nature shall be brought again into Him by Grace.
[1] "no lak (blame), no defaute."
[2] "as sothly as sin is onclene as sothly is it onkinde."
[3] S. de Cressy has "the loving soul."
[4] "Our fader bliss."
_THE FIFTEENTH REVELATION_
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