The first image associated by Julian to the true Love of God, as she calls it, is Jesus's crowning. The other set of paradoxical symbols is the union of male and female in Julian's portrait of Jesus Christ as her divine mother. This is a striking philosophical portrait of reality, and an encouraging idea to consider.
There are two very important symbols for paradox in Julian's religious confession: there is the dilemma of evil, held in tension with what she describes to be a perfectly loving God who is somehow perfectly demonstrated in reality, but in a way that contains no anger or evil whatsoever.
This motif is very popular in literature in film, from Tom Sawyer to The Matrix. Julian's point of view is strange, but what is stranger still is this fact: Many of her religious ideas have striking similarities to the mystics of all other religions, like the mystic Buddhists who would say she has attained a kind of enlightenment. She feels that by meditating on good and evil, she was able to transcend the limitations of this realm of reality, and by praying to Jesus Christ and worshipping him as God. Julian of Norwich explains the inciting incident for this book, which is that she believes she has broken into higher planes of human consciousness by attaining visions of the true God, the creator of reality. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Julian became well known throughout England as a spiritual authority.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. This is believed to be the first book written by a woman in the English language. (They ended by the time she overcame her illness on May 13, 1373.) These visions would twenty years later be the source of her major work, called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (circa 1393). At the age of thirty, suffering from a severe illness and believing she was on her deathbed, Julian had a series of intense visions. Even her name is uncertain, the name "Julian" coming from the Church of St Julian in Norwich, where she occupied a cell adjoining the church as an anchoress. Little is known of her life aside from her writings.
1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Translated by Grace Warrack (1855 - 1932) Download cover art Download CD case insert Revelations of Divine Love
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