John Ruysbroeck Quote

The Spirit of God now speaks within our own spirit in its hidden immersion: 'Go out, into a state of eternal contemplation and blissful enjoyment after God's own manner.' All the richness which is in God by nature is something which we lovingly possess in God –and God in us– through the infinite love which is the Holy Spirit... There the spirit is caught up in the embrace of the Holy Trinity and eternally abides within the superessential Unity in a state of rest and blissful enjoyment. In this same Unity, considered now as regards its fruitfulness, the Father is in the Son and the Son in the Father, while all creatures are in them both.


James A. Wiseman, Jan Van Ruusbroec (Classics of Western spirituality, 1985), p. 148 - The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)


The Spirit of God now speaks within our own spirit in its hidden immersion: 'Go out, into a state of eternal contemplation and blissful enjoyment...

The Spirit of God now speaks within our own spirit in its hidden immersion: 'Go out, into a state of eternal contemplation and blissful enjoyment...

The Spirit of God now speaks within our own spirit in its hidden immersion: 'Go out, into a state of eternal contemplation and blissful enjoyment...

The Spirit of God now speaks within our own spirit in its hidden immersion: 'Go out, into a state of eternal contemplation and blissful enjoyment...