The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: The Sparkling Stone & the Book of Supreme Truth"The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage was written some time around 1350, not long after Flemish mystic JAN VAN RUYSBROECK (12931381) moved to a small hermitage out in the country, where he wandered the woods and wrote as the Holy Ghost inspired him. According to Janwho was named a saint in 1908the development of the soul has three stages: Active, Interior, Superessential. The Active life is that which men are most accustomed to: the life of the material world. The Interior life is the life of the spirit that is touched by religious contemplation. And the superessential life is that which lies beyond description and is man's existence in enlightenment. Written for Christians and spiritual seekers, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage is a guide for developing a deeply spiritual life." |
Contents
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How Humility is the Foundation of all other Virtues | 25 |
Of Generosity | 32 |
Of Three Enemies to be overcome by Righteous | 39 |
THE SECOND BOOK | 50 |
Showing how we should found our Inward Life | 56 |
Of Sensible Love | 62 |
Of the Unity of the Divine Nature in the Trinity | 115 |
Of the Essential Meeting with God without Means | 125 |
Of the ordering of all the Virtues through | 134 |
Of the Highest Degree of the most Interior Life | 149 |
Of another kind of Perverted Men | 162 |
How the Eternal Birth of God is renewed without | 170 |
Of a Divine Meeting which takes place in | 176 |
Prologue | 181 |
Of the Pain and Restlessness of Love | 74 |
A Parable of the | 80 |
How one may be hindered in this | 86 |
Showing how these Four Degrees in their Per | 92 |
The Third Rill establishes the Will to every | 101 |
How Christ was is and ever will be the Lover | 109 |
Of the difference between the Secret Friends and | 197 |
Of the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Thabor | 216 |
Prologue | 225 |
Showing how the Inward Man should exercise him | 236 |
Of the Highest Union without Difference or Dis | 244 |
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