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This volume contains witty and startling perceptions of the “feminine” nature of God by one of the greatest of all English mystics. Julian of Norwich (1342–c.1423) was an anchoress who lived in solitude in Norwich, England.

answered with these words124 and said: Sin is necessary125, but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well. In this naked word ‘sin’, our Lord brought generally to my mind all which is not good, and the shameful contempt and the direst tribulation which he endured for us in this life, and his death and all his pains, and the passions, spiritual and bodily, of all his creatures. For we are all in part troubled126, and we shall be troubled127, following our master
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