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Excerpt from Revelations of Divine Love: Shewed to Mother Juliana of Norwich, 1373
What! Wouldst thou wit thy Lord''s meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. Wherefore shewed He it thee? For Love. Hold thee therein, and thou shalt wit it more in that same. But thou shalt never wit therein other without end. This is the key to the true interpretation and criticism not only of Mother J uliana''s Revelations, but also of the Christian revelation and of every religion so far as it reaches after the fulness of Christ. Nay, it is the key to the riddle of Nature and to the riddle of human life - all alike in their several ways are Revelations of Divine Love - however hard at times it may be for Faith, with tear-dimmed eyes and trembling fingers, to unravel the knot. Wit it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. Wherefore shewed He it thee? For Love. Beneath the life Of those senses which reveal to us that world of appearances, which the unre?ecting so easily confound with the realitywhich it only symbolises; beneath the life of the understanding, whose forms and frames (contrasting in their permanence and universality with the un steadiness and uncertainty of that chaos Of ?eeting phenomena which they but classify and set in order) have seemed to some to merit the name of Reality; beneath even the life of the higher, though self centred and self-regarding emotions and sentiments, aesthetic or spiritual; deep down at the very basis of the soul, is to be sought the only life that in an absolute and independent sense deserves the name of real, because by it alone are we brought into conscious relation with other personalities, and made aware of our own. Whatever else we call real is so, but in some secondary and derived sense. Only in so far as it resembles a person can we think Of it at all, and only in so far as it affects a person, ourself or another, can we desire it or care about it in any way. It is precisely by love and its dependent affections that we are brought into conscious and active relation with the whole world of person alities outside our own, so as to make therewith in some sort one many-membered spiritual organism. It is love which at once saves and yet overcomes that separateness and individual distinction which is of the very essence of personality, and thereby.
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What! Wouldst thou wit thy Lord''s meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. Wherefore shewed He it thee? For Love. Hold thee therein, and thou shalt wit it more in that same. But thou shalt never wit therein other without end. This is the key to the true interpretation and criticism not only of Mother J uliana''s Revelations, but also of the Christian revelation and of every religion so far as it reaches after the fulness of Christ. Nay, it is the key to the riddle of Nature and to the riddle of human life - all alike in their several ways are Revelations of Divine Love - however hard at times it may be for Faith, with tear-dimmed eyes and trembling fingers, to unravel the knot. Wit it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. Wherefore shewed He it thee? For Love. Beneath the life Of those senses which reveal to us that world of appearances, which the unre?ecting so easily confound with the realitywhich it only symbolises; beneath the life of the understanding, whose forms and frames (contrasting in their permanence and universality with the un steadiness and uncertainty of that chaos Of ?eeting phenomena which they but classify and set in order) have seemed to some to merit the name of Reality; beneath even the life of the higher, though self centred and self-regarding emotions and sentiments, aesthetic or spiritual; deep down at the very basis of the soul, is to be sought the only life that in an absolute and independent sense deserves the name of real, because by it alone are we brought into conscious relation with other personalities, and made aware of our own. Whatever else we call real is so, but in some secondary and derived sense. Only in so far as it resembles a person can we think Of it at all, and only in so far as it affects a person, ourself or another, can we desire it or care about it in any way. It is precisely by love and its dependent affections that we are brought into conscious and active relation with the whole world of person alities outside our own, so as to make therewith in some sort one many-membered spiritual organism. It is love which at once saves and yet overcomes that separateness and individual distinction which is of the very essence of personality, and thereby.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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