Ruysbroeck

I cannot deny my sympathy to these austere minds though I am of that school of lyric poets that has raised the cry of Ruysbroeck though in vain: ‘must rejoice, I must rejoice without ceasing, even if the world shudder at my joy’.326

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

Thus, for Eckhart and Ruysbroeck, there is an Abyss of Godhead underlying the Trinity, just as Brahman underlies Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

The Perennial Philosophy 2008

[87] This ancient simile for the union of the soul with God is constantly used by Ruysbroeck.

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

[60] By the “effective understanding” Ruysbroeck probably meant the faculty, sometimes called the “higher reason” or “pure intellect” which the Victorine mystics described as “beyond and beside reason,” and whereby the mind contemplates intellectibilia: the “invisible things which may not be comprehended by human reason.”

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

During youth and early middle-age, then, Ruysbroeck lived in Brussels, fulfilling the ordinary duties of a cathedral chaplain: and here some of his earlier works may have been written.

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

Ruysbroeck, “are strange, but those who love will understand”: and this indeed is true, for he possessed in an extraordinary degree the power — which so many great mystics have lacked — of giving verbal and artistic expression to his soaring intuitions of Eternity.

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

Ruysbroeck grew in knowledge of the true contemplative life, the dangers attending on its perversion became ever more clear to him: and he entered upon that vigorous campaign against the heretical quietists which was the chief outward event of his Brussels period.

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

The mystic has now entered into union with the three wise, the three modes or ways, under which Divine Love imparts itself in the spirit of man: characteristically distinguished by Ruysbroeck as three forms of movement.

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

[13] The student will find a fuller analysis in my monograph Ruysbroeck

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

There are striking parallels to this and other similar passages in Ruysbroeck in the

The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916