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RUYSBROEK (or RUYSBROECK), See also: born at Ruysbroek, near Brussels, in 1293
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In 1317 he was ordained See also: priest and became See also: vicar of St Gudule, Brussels
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When sixty years of age he withdrew with a few companions to the monastery of Groenendael, near See also: Waterloo, giving himself to meditation and mystical writing, and to a full share of the See also: practical tasks of the society
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He was known as the " Ecstatic Teacher,” and formed a See also: link between the See also: Friends of See also: God and the See also: Brothers of the Commbn See also: Life, sects which helped to bring about the See also: Reformation
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Ruysbroek insisted that " the soul finds God in its own depths,” and noted three stages of progress in what he called " the spiritual ladder " of Christian attainment: (I) the active life, (2) the inward life, (3) the contemplative life
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He did not teach the See also: fusion of the self in God, but held that at the See also: summit of the ascent the soul still preserves its identity
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His See also: works, of which the most important were De See also: vera contemplation and De septem gradibus amoris, were published in 1848 at See also: Hanover; also Reflections from the Mirror of a Mystic (1906) and Die Zierde der geistlichen Hochzeit (1901)
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See Rufus M
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See also: Jones, Studies in Mystical
See also: Religion, pp
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308–14 (1909) ; M
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See also: Maeterlinck, Ruysbroek and the Mystics, with selections from The Adornment of the Spiritual See also: Marriage (tr. by J
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Stoddart, See also: London, 1894); and See also: art
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MYSTICISM
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