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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter XVII. Of The Second Degree of Our Inward Exercise, Which Increases Inwardness by Humility

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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But, having likened the four degrees of the first coming of Christ to the splendour and the power of the sun, we also find in the sun another power and another action, which hastens the ripening, and increases the numbers, of the fruit. When the sun rises very high, and enters the sign of Gemini (that is, the Twins; or a twofold thing of one nature), which happens in the middle of the month of May: then it has a double power over flowers and herbs and everything that grows out of the earth. If…

The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter XVII. Of The Second Degree of Our Inward Exercise, Which Increases Inwardness by Humility

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