{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/asm/asm040.htm","path":"chr/asm/asm040.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/asm/asm040.htm","text":"The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, by Jan van Ruysbroeck, [1916]\nFrom this unity springs inwardness; for none can be inward save him who is gathered together in unity within himself. Inwardness means that a man is turned within, into his own heart, that thereby he may understand and feel the interior workings, and the interior words of God. Inwardness is a sensible fire of love, which the Spirit of God has blown to a flame, and which urges a man from within; and he knows not whence it comes nor what has befallen him.","title":"The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter X. Of Inwardness","type":"page"}