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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: The Book of Supreme Truth: Chapter VII. Showing Wherefore All Good Men Do Not Attain to the Unmediated Union with God

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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But now you may ask me why all good men do not attain to feel this. Now listen and I will tell you the why and the wherefore. They do not respond to the stirring of God with a forsaking of themselves, and so they do not abide with quickening fervour before the Presence of God; and also they are not careful of heart in their inward self-examination.

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