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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: The Sparkling Stone: Chapter X. How We, Though One With God, Must Eternally Remain Other Than God

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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Though I have said before that we are one with God and this is taught us by Holy Writ, yet now I will say that we must eternally remain other than God, and distinct from Him, and this too is taught us by Holy Writ. And we must understand and feel both within us, if all is to be right with us. And therefore I say further: that from the Face of God, or from our highest feeling, a brightness shines upon the face of our inward being, which teaches us the truth of love and of all virtues: and…

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