Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth and Seven Steps of the Ladder of Spiritual Love.

THIS 50 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0922802947.

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THIS 50 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0922802947.

Christian mysticism. Contents: The First Step: Conformity with God's Will; The Second Step: Voluntary Poverty; The Third Step: Purity of Soul and Body; The Fourth Step: Humility and Her Four Daughter-Virtues, As a Spring With Four Streams; The Fifth Step: The Highest of All the Virtues, The Striving After God's Honour in the Inner Life; The Sixth Step: The Contemplative Life in Its First Moment of Union With the Trinity; The Seventh Step: The Contemplative Life in Its Second Moment: The Annihilation in God's Essence.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1300's Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

THIS 104 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Light, Life and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564596087.

Christian mysticism. Contents: The First Step: Conformity with God's Will; The Second Step: Voluntary Poverty; The Third Step: Purity of Soul and Body; The Fourth Step: Humility and Her Four Daughter-Virtues, As a Spring With Four Streams; The Fifth Step: The Highest of All the Virtues, The Striving After God's Honour in the Inner Life; The Sixth Step: The Contemplative Life in Its First Moment of Union With the Trinity; The Seventh Step: The Contemplative Life in Its Second Moment: The Annihilation in God's Essence.

THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Seven Steps of the Ladder of Spiritual Love, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564590186.

THIS 56 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0922802947.

THIS 104 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Light, Life and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564596087.

THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Seven Steps of the Ladder of Spiritual Love, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564590186.

THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0922802947.

THIS 56 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0922802947.

THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0922802947.

Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth and Seven Steps of the Ladder of Spiritual Love.

Christian mysticism. Contents: The First Step: Conformity with God's Will; The Second Step: Voluntary Poverty; The Third Step: Purity of Soul and Body; The Fourth Step: Humility and Her Four Daughter-Virtues, As a Spring With Four Streams; The Fifth Step: The Highest of All the Virtues, The Striving After God's Honour in the Inner Life; The Sixth Step: The Contemplative Life in Its First Moment of Union With the Trinity; The Seventh Step: The Contemplative Life in Its Second Moment: The Annihilation in God's Essence.

THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Seven Steps of the Ladder of Spiritual Love, by Jan Van Ruysbroeck. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564590186.

Jan Van Ruysbroeck-three of whose most important works are here for the first time presented to English readers-is the greatest of the Flemish mystics, and must take high rank in any list of Christian contemplatives and saints. A truly beautiful example of what Christianity was and should be. Highly recommended.

"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."