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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, by Jan van Ruysbroeck, [1916], at sacred-texts.com


HERE ENDS THE BOOK OF THE ADORNMENT OF THE SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE

 

 

THE SPARKLING STONE

 

PROLOGUE

 

The man who would live in the most perfect state of Holy Church must be a good and zealous man; an inward and ghostly man; an uplifted and God-seeing man; and an outflowing man to all in common. Whenever these four things are together in a man, then his state is perfect; and through the increase of grace he shall continually grow and progress in all virtues, and in the knowledge of truth, before God and before all men.


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