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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: The Sparkling Stone: Chapter VIII. Of the Difference Between the Secret Friends and the Hidden Sons of God

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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But further we find a more subtle and inward difference, between the secret friends and the hidden sons of God; and yet both these alike by their inward exercise maintain themselves in the Presence of God. But the friends possess their inwardness as an attribute, for they choose the loving adherence to God as best and highest of all that they ever can and will reach: and that is why they cannot with themselves and their own activity penetrate to the imageless Nudity. For they have, as images…

The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: The Sparkling Stone: Chapter VIII. Of the Difference Between the Secret Friends and the Hidden Sons of God

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