It is thus logical that God, being our Father, be also our Mother. Our highest Father, God Almighty, who is Â∛eingÂ, has always known us and loved us: because of this knowledge, through his marvellous and deep charity and with the unanimous consent of the Blessed Trinity, He wanted the Second Person to become our Mother, our Brother, our Saviour. Just as God is our Father, so God is also our Mother.Īnd He showed me this truth in all things, but especially in those sweet words when He says: ÂIt is IÂ.Īs if to say, I am the power and the Goodness of the Father, I am the Wisdom of the Mother, I am the Light and the Grace which is blessed love, I am the Trinity, I am the Unity, I am the supreme Goodness of all kind of things, I am the One who makes you love, I am the One who makes you desire, I am the never-ending fulfilment of all true desires.

We received our Â∛eingÂ from Him and this is where His Maternity starts And with it comes the gentle Protection and Guard of Love which will never ceases to surround us. Jesus Christ therefore, who himself overcame evil with good, is our true Mother. Julian's writings were not mentioned at all in any bequests, in which personal libraries of lay or monastic books were distributed within wills, as often happened for male authors at that time.'It is a characteristic of God to overcome evil with good. The historian Janina Ramirez has suggested that their use of Middle English was a sensible choice, considering the inexplicable nature of what they were attempting to describe, as they could 'couch their theological ruminations more as personal encounters with the divine'. Her life was contemporaneous with four other English mystics-Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle, Margery Kempe, and the unknown author of the work known as The Cloude of Unknowyng-all of whom wrote in the vernacular. It is more likely that they read and wrote in Middle English, their vernacular language, as Julian did. In the 14th century, women in England were generally barred from high-status clerical positions or other authoritative roles such as teaching, and their knowledge of Latin, the lingua franca of the day, would have been limited.

It is the first book in English known to have been written by a woman. Revelations of Divine Love is unique, as no other work written by an English anchoress seems to have survived.

Revelations of divine love