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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: First Book: Chapter XXI. Of Temperance and Sobriety

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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From this zeal there spring temperance and sobriety, both inward and outward; for none can possess the right measure of sobriety save him who is greatly zealous and diligent to keep his soul and body in righteousness. Sobriety divides the higher powers from the animal powers; it saves a man from intemperance and from excess. Sobriety wishes neither to taste, nor to know, those things which are forbidden.

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