{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/asm/asm001.htm","path":"chr/asm/asm001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/asm/asm001.htm","text":"The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, by Jan van Ruysbroeck, [1916]\nIntroduction\nPrologue\nI. Of the Active Life\nII. Showing how we shall consider the Coming of Christ in Three Ways\nIII. Of Humility\nIV. Of Charity\nV. Of Patient Endurance\nVI. Of the Second Coming of Christ\nVII. Of the Blessed Sacraments\nVIII. Of the Third Coming of Christ\nIX. Showing what Christ will do in the Day of Doom\nX. Of the Five Kinds of Men who shall appear at the Judgment\nXI. Of a Spiritual Going Out with all Virtues\nXII. How Humility is the Foundation of all other Virtues\nXIII. Of Obedience\nXIV. Of the Renunciation of Self-Will\nXV. Of Patience\nXVI. Of Meekness\nXVII. Of Kindliness\nXVIII. Of Compassion\nXIX. Of Generosity\nXX. Of Zeal and Diligence\nXXI. Of Temperance and Sobriety\nXXII. Of Purity\nXXIII. Of Three Enemies to be overcome by Righteousness\nXXIV. Of the Kingdom of the Soul\nXXV. Of a Spiritual Meeting of God and Ourselves\nXXVI. Of the desire to know the Bridegroom in His Nature\nI. How we achieve Supernatural Sight in our Inward Workings\nII. Of a Three-fold Unity which is in us by Nature\nIII. Of the Inflow of the Grace of God into our Spirit\nIV. Showing how we should found our Inward Life on a Freedom from Images\nV. Of a Three-fold Coming of our Lord in the Inward Man\nVI. Of the Second Coming of our Lord in the Inward Man\nVII. Of the Third Coming of our Lord\nVIII. How the First Coming has Four Degrees\nIX. Of Unity of Heart\nX. Of Inwardness\nXI. Of Sensible Love\nXII. Of Devotion\nXIII. Of Gratitude\nXIV. Of Two Griefs which arise from Inward Gratitude\nXV. A Similitude how we should perform the First Degree of our Inward Exercise\nXVI. Another Similitude concerning the same Exercise\nXVII. Of the Second Degree of our Inward Exercise, which increases Inwardness by Humility\nXVIII. Of the Pure Delight of the Heart and the Sensible Powers\nXIX. Of Spiritual Inebriation\nXX. What may hinder a Man in this Inebriation\nXXI. A Similitude how a Man should act and bear himself in this case\nXXII. Of the Third Degree of the Spiritual Coming of Christ\nXXIII. Of the Pain and Restlessness of Love\nXXIV. Of Ecstacies and Divine Revelations\nXXV. An Example showing how one is hindered in this Exercise\nXXVI. Another Example\nXXVII. A Parable of the Ant\nXXVIII. Of the Fourth Degree of the Coming of Christ\nXXIX. Showing what the Forsaken Man should do\nXXX. A Parable: How one may be hindered in this Fourth Degree\nXXXI. Of another Hindrance\nXXXII. Of Four Kinds of Fever wherewith a Man may be Tormented\nXXXIII. Showing how these Four Degrees in their Perfection are Found in Christ\nXXXIV. Showing how a Man should Live if he would be Enlightened\nXXXV. Of the Second Coming of Christ, or, the Fountain with Three Rills\nXXXVI. The First Rill adorns the Memory\nXXXVII. The Second Rill enlightens the Understanding\nXXXVIII. The Third Rill establishes the Will to every Perfection\nXXXIX. Showing how the Established Man shall go out in Four Ways\nXL. He shall go out towards God and towards all Saints\nXLI. He shall go out towards all Sinners\nXLII. He shall go out towards his Friends in Purgatory\nXLIII. He shall go out towards himself and towards all Good Men\nXLIV. Showing how we may recognise those Men who fail in Charity to all\nXLV. How Christ was, is, and ever will be the Lover of all\nXLVI. Reproving all those who live on Spiritual Goods in an Inordinate Manner\nXLVII. Showing how Christ has given Himself to all in common in the Sacrament of the Altar\nXLVIII. Of the Unity of the Divine Nature in the Trinity of the Persons\nXLIX. Showing how God possesses and moves the Soul both in a Natural and a Supernatural way\nL. Showing how a Man should be adorned if he is to receive the most Inward Exercise\nLI. Of the Third Coming of Christ\nLII. Showing how the Spirit goes out through the Divine Stirring\nLIII. Of an Eternal Hunger for God\nLIV. Of a Loving Strife between the Spirit of God and our Spirit\nLV. Of the Fruitful Works of the Spirit, the which are Eternal\nLVI. Showing the way in which we shall meet God in a Ghostly Manner both with and without Means\nLVII. Of the Essential Meeting with God without Means in the Nakedness of our Nature\nLVIII. Showing how one is like unto God through Grace and unlike unto God through Mortal Sin\nLIX. Showing how one possesses God in Union and Rest, above all likeness through Grace\nLX. Showing how we have need of the Grace of God, which makes us like unto God and leads us to God without Means\nLXI. Of how God and our Spirit visit each other in the Unity and in the Likeness\nLXII. Showing how we should go out to meet God in all our Works\nLXIII. Of the ordering of all the Virtues through the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost\nLXIV. Of the Highest Degree of the most Interior Life\nLXV. Of Three Kinds of most Inward Practices\nLXVI. Showing how some Men live contrary to these Exercises\nLXVII. Of another kind of Perverted Men\nI. Showing the Three Ways by which one enters into the God-Seeing Life\nII. How the Eternal Birth of God is renewed without interruption in the nobility of the Spirit\nIII. How our Spirit is called to go out in Contemplation and Fruition\nIV. Of a Divine Meeting which takes place in the Hiddenness of our Spirit\nI. Through Three Things a Man becomes Good\nII. Through Three Things a Man becomes Inward\nIII Through Three Things a Man becomes God-Seeing\nIV. Of the Sparkling Stone, and of the New Name written in the Book of the Secrets of God\nV. Of the works which God works in all in common, and of Five Kinds of Sinners\nVI. Of the difference between the Hirelings and the Faithful Servants of God\nVII. Of the difference between the Faithful Servants and the Secret Friends of God\nVIII. Of the difference between the Secret Friends and the Hidden Sons of God\nIX. How we may become Hidden Sons of God, and attain to the God-Seeing Life\nX. How we, though One with God, must eternally remain Other than God\nXI. Of the great difference between the Brightness of the Saints and the Highest Brightness to which we can attain in this Life\nXII. Of the Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Thabor\nXIII. How we ought to have Fruition of God\nXIV. Of that Common Life which comes from the Contemplation and Fruition of God\nI. Wherefore this Book was Written\nII. A short repetition of all the Highest Teachings written by the Author\nIII. Of the Union through Means\nIV. Of the Men who practise a False Vacancy\nV. Of the Union without Means\nVI. Of Heavenly Weal and Hellish Woe\nVII. Showing wherefore all Good Men do not attain to the Unmediated Union with God\nVIII. Showing how the Inward Man should exercise himself, that he may be united with God without Means\nIX. Of the Inward Working of God's Grace\nX. Of the Mutual Contentment of the Divine Persons, and the Mutual Contentment between God and Good Men\nXI. How Good Men in their Contemplation have the Love of God before them, and how they are lifted up into God\nXII. Of the Highest Union, without Difference or Distinction\nXIII. Of the Three-fold Prayer of Christ, that we might be one with God\nXIV. Here the Author declares that he submits all that he has written to the judgment of Holy Church\nNotes","title":"The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Contents","type":"page"}