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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter XXXIV. Showing How a Man Should Live if He Would be Enlightened

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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The man who lives in true obedience and in the moral virtues, according to the commandments of God, and besides this practices the inward virtues according to the teaching and stirring of the Holy Ghost, who is just in deed and in word, who seeks not his own, neither in time nor in eternity, who can bear with equanimity and with true patience, darkness and heaviness, and all kinds of miseries, and thanks God for everything, and offers himself up with humble resignation: he has received the…