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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter XX. What May Hinder a Man in this Inebriation

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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When, however, this coming and this degree are granted to such men as first begin to turn from the world; even though their conversion be perfect, and they have abandoned all worldly consolation, that they may be wholly God's, and may live altogether for Him,yet they are still feeble and have need of milk and sweet things, and not of the strong food of fierce temptation and the loss of God. And in this season, that is to say, in this state, hoar-frost and fog often harm such men; for it is just…

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