"And thus in our making God almighty is our kindly father, and god all wisdom is our kindly mother, with the love and the goodness of the Holy Ghost, which is all on God, one Lord. And in the knitting and in the oneing he is our very true spouse and we his loved wife and his fair maiden, with which wife he was never displeased. For he sayeth: "I love thee and thou lovest me, and our love shall never part in two." (NAEL page 378)
The two types of relationships Julian describes here are very interesting and I found it surprising that she wasn't condemned for saying that Jesus is a mother to all of us, who suffered for us in the same ways our mothers suffer for us. I also thought it was interesting how this Father and Mother relationship, with all of creation as their children, parallels what we think of as a familial relationship.
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