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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter XLII. He Shall Go Out Towards His Friends in Purgatory

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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At times the man shall behold his friends in purgatory, and shall consider their misery and their yearnings and their heavy pains. Then shall he pray and beseech the pity, the mercy, and the generosity of God; and shall plead their good-will, and their great misery, and their yearning after the rich goodness of God, and he shall bring to God's remembrance that they died in love, and that their only refuge is in His passion and mercy. Now understand this: it may sometimes happen that this…