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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: First Book: Chapter XII. How Humility is the Foundation of All Other Virtues

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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Now consider this: as we have laid down humility as a foundation, so therefore we shall speak of humility first. Humility, that is lowliness or self-abasement, is an inward bowing down or prostrating of the heart and of the conscience before God's transcendent worth. Righteousness demands and orders this, and through charity a loving heart cannot leave it undone.

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