Revelations of Divine Love · 18 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack
Chapter XII
"The dearworthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it it most plenteous" And after this I saw, beholding, the body plenteously bleeding in seeming of the Scourging, as thus:—The fair skin was broken full deep into the tender flesh with sharp smiting all about the sweet body. So plenteously the hot blood ran out that there was neither seen skin nor wound, but as it were all blood. And when it came where it should have fallen down, then it vanished. Notwithstanding, the bleeding continued awhile: till it might be seen and considered. And this was so plenteous, to my sight, that methought if it had been so in kind and in substance at that time, it should have made the bed all one blood, and have passed over about. And then came to my mind that God hath made waters plenteous in earth to our service and to our bodily ease for tender love that He hath to us, but yet liketh Him better that we take full homely His blessed blood to wash us of sin: for there is no water that is made that He liketh so well to give us. For it is most plenteous as it is most precious: and that by the virtue of His blessed Godhead; and it is [of] our Kind, and all-blissfully belongeth to us by the virtue of His precious love. The dearworthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it is most plenteous. Behold and see! The precious plenty of His dearworthy blood descended down into Hell and burst her bands and delivered all that were there which belonged to the Court of Heaven. The precious plenty of His dearworthy blood overfloweth all Earth, and is ready to wash all creatures of sin, which be of goodwill, have been, and shall be. The precious plenty of His dearworthy blood ascended up into Heaven to the blessed body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and there is in Him, bleeding and praying for us to the Father,—and is, and shall be as long as it needeth;—and ever shall be as long as it needeth. And evermore it floweth in all Heavens enjoying the salvation of all mankind, that are there, and shall be—fulfilling the number that faileth. THE FIFTH REVELATION
Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.
The text uses vivid human imagery to describe the divine, including a bleeding body, skin, flesh, and the personification of Hell as having bands that can be burst.
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
The passage emphasizes God's intentional design in creating water and blood for human service and salvation, indicating an active ordering of the cosmos toward human good.
The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.
The text portrays God as a dynamic, personal agent who actively loves, provides, and orchestrates salvation through the ongoing action of Christ's blood.
Guided passage of the soul through afterlife realms.
The passage describes the blood descending into Hell to deliver souls, functioning as a divine agent that guides or liberates spirits from the underworld.