And this divine light is granted in the simple being of the spirit, where the spirit receives the brightness –which is God Himself- above all gifts and above all creaturely activity, in the empty void of the spirit in which it has lost itself through enjoyable love and receives the brightness of God without intermediary. And without cease, it becomes the very brightness which it receives.


The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)

John Ruysbroeck Quotes

And this divine light is granted in the simple being of the spirit, where the spirit receives the brightness –which is God Himself- above all gifts ...

And this divine light is granted in the simple being of the spirit, where the spirit receives the brightness –which is God Himself- above all gifts ...

And this divine light is granted in the simple being of the spirit, where the spirit receives the brightness –which is God Himself- above all gifts ...

And this divine light is granted in the simple being of the spirit, where the spirit receives the brightness –which is God Himself- above all gifts ...