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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage
Blessed John of Rusybroeck · d. 1381
- 1 Title Page
- 2 Prologue
- 3 Of the Active Life
- 4 Showing how we shall consider the Coming of Christ in Three Ways
- 5 Of Humility
- 6 Of Charity
- 7 Of the Second Coming of Christ
- 8 Of the Blessed Sacraments
- 9 Of the Five Kinds of Men who shall appear at the Judgment
- 10 Of a Spiritual Going Out with all Virtues
- 11 How Humility is the Foundation of all other Virtues
- 12 Of Obedience
- 13 Of Meekness
- 14 Of Generosity
- 15 Of Temperance and Sobriety
- 16 Of Three Enemies to be overcome by Righteousness
- 17 Of a Spiritual Meeting of God and Ourselves
- 18 Of the desire to know the Bridegroom in His Nature
- 19 Prologue
- 20 Of the Inflow of the Grace of God into our Spirit
- 21 Of the Second Coming of our Lord in the Inward Man
- 22 Of Unity of Heart
- 23 Of Gratitude
- 24 Of the Second Degree of our Inward Exercise, which increases Inwardness by Humility
- 25 A Similitude how a Man should act and bear himself in this case
- 26 An Example showing how one is hindered in this Exercise
- 27 Showing what the Forsaken Man should do
- 28 Showing how these Four Degrees in their Perfection are Found in Christ
- 29 The Second Rill enlightens the Understanding
- 30 He shall go out towards all Sinners
- 31 How Christ was, is, and ever will be the Lover of all
- 32 Showing how God possesses and moves the Soul both in a Natural and a Supernatural way
- 33 Of an Eternal Hunger for God
- 34 Of the Essential Meeting with God without Means in the Nakedness of our Nature
- 35 Of how God and our Spirit visit each other in the Unity and in the Likeness
- 36 Of the ordering of all the Virtues through the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost (cont)
- 37 Of the Highest Degree of the most Interior Life
- 38 Of Three Kinds of most Inward Practices
- 39 Of another kind of Perverted Men
- 40 Showing the Three Ways by which one enters into the God-Seeing Life
- 41 How the Eternal Birth of God is renewed without interruption in the nobility of the Spirit
- 42 How our Spirit is called to go out in Contemplation and Fruition
- 43 Of a Divine Meeting which takes place in the Hiddenness of our Spirit
- 44 Introduction
- 45 Introduction (cont)