This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... SELECTIONS FROM THE mediations of Dftrfne Lobe fjetoeO to 6(c)ot&er 3IuUana of jQorim'cb 1373 JULIANA OF NORWICH English mystic, author of "Revelations of Divine Love"; born near Norwich in 1342; said to have been "yet in life" in 1442. She became a recluse in an anchorage attached to the Church of St. Julian of Norwich. In the first chapter of her "Revelations" she says: "This is a revelation of love, that Jesu Christ our endless blisse made in xvi. shewings." In the second chapter she says: "This revelation was made to a simple creature unlettered, living in deadlie flesh, the year of our Lord, a thousand three hundreth lxxiij, the xiiijth daie of Maie: which creature desired before three gifts by the grace of God. 'The first was mind of the passion.' 'The second was bodilie sickness.' 'The third was to have of God's gift three woundes, ... that is to say, the wound of verie contrition, the wound of kind compassion, and the wound of willful longing to God'" The book is a record of twenty years' meditation on these experiences. More than fifteen years later she received "in ghostly understanding" the key to the interpretation of her religious experiences: "What? wouldst thou wit thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was his meaning. Who sheweth it thee? Love. Wherefore sheweth he it thee? For love. Hold thee therein, thou shalt wit more in the same. But thou shalt never wit therein other without end." preface The first five chapters sum up the contents of the "Sixteen Revelations," give the circumstances (severe illness) and time (1373) in which they were received, indicate that they were mediated through the sight of the crucifix held before her during and after the administration of the Church's last rites, and.