By John of Ruysbroeck, Aeterna Press
Jan van Ruysbroeck—three of whose most crucial works are the following for the 1st time offered to English readers—is the best of the Flemish mystics, and needs to take excessive rank in any checklist of Christian contemplatives and saints. He used to be born in 1273, on the little village of Ruysbroeck or Ruusbroeck among Brussels and Hal, from which he is taking his identify; and spent his complete existence inside his local province of Brabant. At 11 years previous, he's stated to have run clear of domestic and located his technique to Brussels; the place he was once got via his uncle Jan Hinckaert, a canon of the Cathedral of St Gudule. Hinckaert, who was once a guy of serious piety, lived with one other religious priest named Francis van Coudenberg within the such a lot austere model; totally dedicated to prayer and strong works.
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Such verse, however, though its uncouth strangeness gives to it an impressive quality, is a far less successful medium for the expression of his subtle mystical perceptions than the vigorous prose style of his best passages; for instance, the wonderful ninth chapter of The Sparkling Stone. [10] When we come to examine the character of these mystical perceptions, we find that Ruysbroeck was one of the few mystics who have known how to make full use of a strong and disciplined intellect, without ever permitting it to encroach on the proper domain of spiritual intuition.
Yet it is alive through and through; the eternal "lifegiving ground" from which all comes. The ideas of "Fatherhood", and "Sonhood" represent its quickening fruitfulness;[15] the Holy Ghost is the name of the Divine energy and love which pours forth into the created world, and thence, like a strong ebb-tide, draws all things back into their Origin. " The ideas, then, of movement, effort, and growth are central for Ruysbroeck's thought. Again and again we are impressed by his almost modern sense of life and action as the substance of the real: his freedom from merely static conceptions.
The Twelve Béguines. These three books, the substance of which is now accessible to English readers,[9] contain the finest fruit of Ruysbroeck's genius. " There is a short example of this in The Book of Truth. Such verse, however, though its uncouth strangeness gives to it an impressive quality, is a far less successful medium for the expression of his subtle mystical perceptions than the vigorous prose style of his best passages; for instance, the wonderful ninth chapter of The Sparkling Stone.
