Revelations of Divine Love

Contents

1. Chapter I

   This is a Revelation of Love that Jesus Christ, our endless bliss, made in Sixteen Shewings, or Revelations …

2. Chapter II

   These Revelations were shewed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord 1373, the Thirteenth day of May. Which creature [had] …

3. Chapter III

   And when I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth …

4. Chapter IV

   In this [moment] suddenly I saw the red blood trickle down from under the Garland hot and freshly and right plenteously, as it were in the …

5. Chapter V

   In this same time our Lord shewed me a spiritual sight of His homely …

6. Chapter VI

   This Shewing was made to learn our soul wisely to cleave to the Goodness of …

7. Chapter VII

   And [it was] to learn us this, as to mine understanding, [that] our Lord God shewed our Lady Saint Mary in the same time: that is to say, …

8. Chapter VIII

   And as long as I saw this sight of the plenteous bleeding of the Head I might never cease from these words: Benedicite …

9. Chapter IX

   Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me. …

10. Chapter X

    And after this I saw with bodily sight in the face of the crucifix that hung before me, on the which I gazed continually, a part of His …

11. Chapter XI

    And after this I saw God in a Point, that is to say, in mine understanding,--by which sight I saw that He is in all …

12. Chapter XII

    And after this I saw, beholding, the body plenteously bleeding in seeming of the Scourging, as thus:--The fair skin was broken full deep …

13. Chapter XIII

    And after this, ere God shewed any words, He suffered me for a convenient time to give heed unto Him and all that I had seen, and all …

14. Chapter XIV

    After this our good Lord said: I thank thee for thy travail, and especially for thy …

15. Chapter XV

    And after this He shewed a sovereign ghostly pleasante in my soul. I was fulfilled with the everlasting sureness, mightily sustained …

16. Chapter XVI

    After this Christ shewed a part of His Passion near His …

17. Chapter XVII

    And in this dying was brought to my mind the words of Christ: I …

18. Chapter XVIII

    Here I saw a part of the compassion of our Lady, Saint Mary: for Christ and she were so oned in love that the greatness of her loving was …

19. Chapter XIX

    In this [time] I would have looked up from the Cross, but I durst not. For I wist well that while I beheld in the Cross I was surely-safe; …

20. Chapter XX

    And thus I saw our Lord Jesus languoring long time. For the oneing with the Godhead gave strength to the manhood for love to suffer more …

21. Chapter XXI

    It is God's will, as to mine understanding, that we have Three Manners of Beholding His blessed Passion. The First is: the hard Pain that …

22. Chapter XXII

    Then said our good Lord Jesus Christ: Art thou well pleased that I suffered for thee? I said: Yea, good Lord, I thank Thee; Yea, good Lord, …

23. Chapter XXIII

    And in these three words: It is a joy, a bliss, an endless satisfying to me, were shewed three heavens, as thus: For the joy, I understood …

24. Chapter XXIV

    Then with a glad cheer our Lord looked unto His Side and beheld, rejoicing. With His sweet looking He led forth the understanding of His …

25. Chapter XXV

    And with this same cheer of mirth and joy our good Lord looked down on the right side and brought to my mind where our Lady stood in the …

26. Chapter XXVI

    And after this our Lord shewed Himself more glorified, as to my sight, than I saw Him before [in the Shewing] wherein I was learned that …

27. Chapter XXVII

    After this the Lord brought to my mind the longing that I had to Him afore. And I saw that nothing letted me but sin. And so I looked, …

28. Chapter XXVIII

    Thus I saw how Christ hath compassion on us for the cause of sin. And right as I was afore in the [Shewing of the] Passion of Christ …

29. Chapter XXIX

    But in this I stood beholding things general, troublously and mourning, saying thus to our Lord in my meaning, with full great dread: Ah! …

30. Chapter XXX

    He gave me understanding of two parts [of truth]. The one part is our Saviour and our salvation. This blessed part is open and clear and …

31. Chapter XXXI

    And thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I …

32. Chapter XXXII

    One time our good Lord said: All thing shall be well; and another time he said: Thou shalt see thyself that all MANNER [of] thing shall be …

33. Chapter XXXIII

    And yet in this I desired, as [far] as I durst, that I might have full sight of Hell and Purgatory. But it was not my meaning to make proof …

34. Chapter XXXIV

    Our Lord God shewed two manner of secret things. One is this great Secret [Counsel] with all the privy points that belong thereto: and …

35. Chapter XXXV

    And when God Almighty had shewed so plenteously and joyfully of His Goodness, I desired to learn assuredly as to a certain creature that I …

36. Chapter XXXVI

    Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His …

37. Chapter XXXVII

    God brought to my mind that I should sin. And for pleasance that I had in beholding of Him, I attended not readily to that shewing; and our …

38. Chapter XXXVIII

    In Heaven "the token of sin is turned to worship."--Examples …

39. Chapter XXXIX

    Sin is the sharpest scourge that any chosen soul may be smitten with: which scourge thoroughly beateth man and woman, and maketh him …

40. Chapter XL

    This is a sovereign friendship of our courteous Lord that He keepeth us so tenderly while we be in sin; and furthermore He toucheth us full …

41. Chapter XLI

    After this our Lord shewed concerning Prayer. In which Shewing I see two conditions in our Lord's signifying: one is rightfulness, another …

42. Chapter XLII

    Our Lord God willeth that we have true understanding, and specially in three things that belong to our prayer. The first is: by whom and …

43. Chapter XLIII

    Prayer oneth the soul to God. For though the soul be ever like to God in kind and substance, restored by grace, it is often unlike in …

44. Chapter XLIV

    God shewed in all the Revelations, oftentimes, that man worketh evermore His will and His worship lastingly without any stinting. And what …

45. Chapter XLV

    God deemeth us [looking] upon our Nature-Substance, which is ever kept one in Him, whole and safe without end: and this doom is [because] …

46. Chapter XLVI

    But our passing life that we have here in our sense-soul knoweth not what our Self is. [And when we verily and clearly see and know what …

47. Chapter XLVII

    Two things belong to our soul as duty: the one is that we reverently marvel, the other that we meekly suffer, ever enjoying in God. For He …

48. Chapter XLVIII

    But our good Lord the Holy Ghost, which is endless life dwelling in our soul, full securely keepeth us; and worketh therein a peace and …

49. Chapter XLIX

    For this was an high marvel to the soul which was continually shewed in all the Revelations, and was with great diligence beholden, that …

50. Chapter L

    And in this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on …

51. Chapter LI

    And then our Courteous Lord answered in shewing full mistily a wonderful example of a Lord that hath a Servant: and He gave me sight to my …

52. Chapter LII

    And thus I saw that God rejoiceth that He is our Father, and God rejoiceth that He is our Mother, and God rejoiceth that He is Very Spouse …

53. Chapter LIII

    And I saw that He willeth that we understand He taketh not harder the falling of any creature that shall be saved than He took the falling …

54. Chapter LIV

    And because of this great, endless love that God hath to all Mankind, He maketh no disparting in love between the blessed Soul of Christ …

55. Chapter LV

    And thus Christ is our Way, us surely leading in His laws, and Christ in His body mightily beareth us up into heaven. For I saw that …

56. Chapter LVI

    And thus I saw full surely that it is readier to us to come to the knowing of God than to know our own Soul. For our Soul is so …

57. Chapter LVII

    And anent our Substance He made us noble, and so rich that evermore we work His will and His worship. (Where I say "we," it meaneth Man …

58. Chapter LVIII

    God, the blessed Trinity, which is everlasting Being, right as He is endless from without beginning, right so it was in His purpose …

59. Chapter LIX

    And all this bliss we have by Mercy and Grace: which manner of bliss we might never have had nor known but if that property of Goodness …

60. Chapter LX

    But now behoveth to say a little more of this forthspreading, as I understand in the meaning of our Lord: how that we be brought again by …

61. Chapter LXI

    And in our spiritual forthbringing He useth more tenderness of keeping, without any likeness: by as much as our soul is of more price in …

62. Chapter LXII

    For in that time He shewed our frailty and our fallings, our afflictings and our settings at nought, our despites and our outcastings, and …

63. Chapter LXIII

    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 …

64. Chapter LXIV

    Afore this time I had great longing and desire of God's gift to be delivered of this world and of this life. For oftentimes I beheld the …

65. Chapter LXV

    And thus I understood that what man or woman with firm will chooseth God in this life, for love, he may be sure that he is loved without …

66. Chapter LXVI

    And after this the good Lord shewed the Sixteenth [Revelation] on the night following, as I shall tell after: which Sixteenth was …

67. Chapter LXVII

    And then our Lord opened my spiritual eye and shewed me my soul in midst of my heart. I saw the Soul so large as it were an endless world, …

68. Chapter LXVIII

    This was a delectable Sight and a restful Shewing, that it is so without end. The beholding of this while we are here is full pleasing to …

69. Chapter LXIX

    After this the Fiend came again with his heat and with his stench, and gave me much ado, the stench was so vile and so painful, and also …

70. Chapter LXX

    In all this blessed Shewing our good Lord gave understanding that the Sight should pass: which blessed Shewing the Faith keepeth, with His …

71. Chapter LXXI

    Glad and joyous and sweet is the Blissful lovely Cheer of our Lord to our souls. For He [be]holdeth us ever, living in love-longing: and He …

72. Chapter LXXII

    But now behoveth me to tell in what manner I saw sin deadly in the creatures which shall not die for sin, but live in the joy of God …

73. Chapter LXXIII

    All the blessed teaching of our Lord was shewed by three parts: that is to say, by bodily sight, and by word formed in mine understanding, …

74. Chapter LXXIV

    For I understand [that there be] four manner of dreads. One is the dread of an affright that cometh to a man suddenly by frailty. This …

75. Chapter LXXV

    I saw that God can do all that we need. And these three that I shall speak of we need: love, longing, pity. Pity in love keepeth us in the …

76. Chapter LXXVI

    I speak but little of reverent dread, for I hope it may be seen in this matter aforesaid. But well I wot our Lord shewed me no souls but …

77. Chapter LXXVII

    Our good Lord shewed the enmity of the Fiend: in which Shewing I understood that all that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and …

78. Chapter LXXVIII

    Our Lord of His mercy sheweth us our sin and our feebleness by the sweet gracious light of Himself; for our sin is so vile and so horrible …

79. Chapter LXXIX

    Also I had of this [Revelation] more understanding. In that He shewed me that I should sin, I took it nakedly to mine own singular person, …

80. Chapter LXXX

    By three things man standeth in this life; by which three God is worshipped, and we be speeded, kept and …

81. Chapter LXXXI

    Our Good Lord shewed Himself in diverse manners both in heaven and in earth, but I saw Him take no place save in man's …

82. Chapter LXXXII

    But here shewed our courteous Lord the moaning and the mourning of the soul, signifying thus: I know well thou wilt live for my love, …

83. Chapter LXXXIII

    I had, in part, touching, sight, and feeling in three properties of God, in which the strength and effect of all the Revelation standeth: …

84. Chapter LXXXIV

    The light is Charity, and the measuring of this light is done to us profitably by the wisdom of God. For neither is the light so large that …

85. Chapter LXXXV

    And in this sight I marvelled highly. For notwithstanding our simple living and our blindness here, yet endlessly our courteous Lord …

86. Chapter LXXXVI

    This book is begun by God's gift and His grace, but it is not yet performed, as to my …