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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter LXIII. Of the Ordering of All the Virtues Through the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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Now consider the order and the degrees of all the virtues and of all holiness, with which we should go out to meet God through resemblance; that so we may rest with Him in the unity. When a man lives in the Fear of God, in the moral virtues and in outward works; and when he is obedient and submissive to Holy Church and to the Divine commandments, and when he is ready and willing in simplicity of intention to do all good things: then he is like unto God, through faithfulness, and through the…

The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter LXIII. Of the Ordering of All the Virtues Through the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost

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