Revelations of Divine Love · 11 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack
Chapter VIIb
For the most fulness of joy that we shall have, as to my sight, is the marvellous courtesy and homeliness of our Father, that is our Maker, in our Lord Jesus Christ that is our Brother and our Saviour.
But this marvellous homeliness may no man fully see in this time of life, save he have it of special shewing of our Lord, or of great plenty of grace inwardly given of the Holy Ghost.
But faith and belief with charity deserveth the meed: and so it is had, by grace; for in faith, with hope and charity, our life is grounded.
The Shewing, made to whom that God will, plainly teacheth the same, opened and declared, with many privy points belonging to our Faith which be worshipful to know.
And when the Shewing which is given in a time is passed and hid, then the faith keepeth [it] by grace of the Holy Ghost unto our life's end.
And thus through the Shewing it is not other than of faith, nor less nor more; as it may be seen in our Lord's teaching in the same matter, by that time that it shall come to the end.
Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.
The central theme is the 'homeliness' and 'courtesy' of God as a 'Father' and Jesus as a 'Brother,' heavily relying on human familial imagery to describe the divine.
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
The passage mentions 'many privy points belonging to our Faith' that are opened and declared through the Shewing, indicating esoteric knowledge reserved for the revealed.