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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter LVIII. Showing How One is Like Unto God Through Grace and Unlike Unto God Through Mortal Sin

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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Now consider this thought earnestly; for if you understand well that which I will now tell you, and that which I have told you, you will have understood all the Divine truth which any creature can teach you, and far more besides. Otherwise does our spirit keep itself in that same unity when it is conceived as acting or working: for then it exists in itself as in its created and personal being. This is the source of the higher powers, and here there are beginning and end of all the creaturely…

The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter LVIII. Showing How One is Like Unto God Through Grace and Unlike Unto God Through Mortal Sin

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