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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: The Sparkling Stone: Chapter IX. How We May Become Hidden Sons of God, and Attain to the God-Seeing Life

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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But I still longed to know how we may become hidden sons of God, and may attain to the God-seeing life. And as to this I have apprehended the following. As it has been said before, we must always live and be watchful in all virtues, and beyond all virtues must forsake this life and die in God; for we must die to sin and be born of God into a life of virtue, and we must renounce ourselves and die in God into an eternal life.

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