“Now, if the spirit is to contemplate God with God, without intermediary, in this divine light, three things are necessary for a person.”

The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)

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Flemish mystic 1293–1381

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“Pure love of God illuminates the soul of the lover and the mysteries of His divinity are revealed by God when the vision of the Beloved is contemplated.”

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“God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.”

John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic

The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)

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