33. "To leave the beholding what the Deed shall be" (The Thirteenth Revelation - That our Lord God wills we have great regard t...) (Revelations of Divine Love) (Julian of Norwich)

33. "To leave the beholding what the Deed shall be" (The Thirteenth Revelation - That our Lord God wills we have great regard t...) (Revelations of Divine Love) (Julian of Norwich) somebody

33. "To leave the beholding what the Deed shall be"

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 of anything that belongs to the Faith: for I believed soothfastly that Hell and Purgatory is for the same end that Holy Church teaches, but my meaning was that I might have seen, for learning in all things that belong to my Faith: whereby I might live the more to God's worship and to my profit.

But for [all] my desire, I could [see] of this truly nothing, save as it is beforesaid in the First Showing, where I saw that the devil is reproved of God and endlessly condemned. In which sight I understood as to all creatures that are of the devil's condition in this life, and therein end, that there is no more mention made of them before God and all His Holy than of the devil, notwithstanding that they be of mankind whether they be christened or not.

For though the Revelation was made of goodness in which was made little mention of evil, yet I was not drawn thereby from any point of the Faith that Holy Church teaches me to believe. For I had sight of the Passion of Christ in diverse Showings, the First, the Second, the Fifth, and the Eighth, wherein I had in part a feeling of the sorrow of our Lady, and of His true friends that saw Him in pain; but I saw not so properly specified the Jews that did Him to death. Notwithstanding I knew in my Faith that they were accursed and condemned without end, saving those that converted, by grace. And I was strengthened and taught generally to keep me in the Faith in every point, and in all as I had before understood: hoping that I was therein with the mercy and the grace of God; desiring and praying in my purpose that I might continue therein to my life's end.

And it is God's will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He has done, but evermore it needs us to leave the beholding what the Deed shall be. And let us desire to be like our brethren which be saints in Heaven, that will truly nothing but God's will and are well pleased both with hiding and with showing. For I saw in truth in our Lord's teaching, the more we busy us to know His secret counsels in this or any other thing, the farther shall we be from the knowing thereof.