See also:

• RUYSBROEK (or RUYSBROECK), JAN VAN (1293-1381)

RUYSBROEK (or RUYSBROECK), See also:

• JAN

JAN See also:

• VAN

VAN (1293-1381)  , Dutch mystic, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• RUYSBROEK (or RUYSBROECK), JAN VAN (1293-1381)

Ruysbroek, near See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, in 1293 . In 1317 he was ordained See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest and became See also:

• VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

vicar of St Gudule, Brussels . When sixty years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he withdrew with a few companions to the monastery of Groenendael, near See also:

• WATERLOO

Waterloo, giving himself to meditation and mystical See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing, and to a full See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share of the See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical tasks of the society . He was known as the " Ecstatic Teacher,” and formed a See also:

• LINK

link between the See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

Friends of See also:

• GOD

God and the See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

Brothers of the Commbn See also:

• LIFE

Life, sects which helped to bring about the See also:

• REFORMATION
• REFORMATION, THE

Reformation . Ruysbroek insisted that " the soul finds God in its own depths,” and noted three stages of progress in what he called " the spiritual See also:

• LADDER, (0. Eng. hlaeder; of Teutonic origin, cf. Dutch leer, Ger. Leiter; the ultimate origin is in the root seen in " lean," Or. KNiµat)

ladder " of See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian attainment: (I) the active life, (2) the inward life, (3) the contemplative life . He did not See also:

• TEACH [THATCH OR THACH], EDWARD (d. 1718)

teach the See also:

• FUSION

fusion of the self in God, but held that at the See also:

• SUMMIT

summit of the ascent the soul still preserves its identity . His See also:

• WORKS

works, of which the most important were De See also:

• VERA, AUGUSTO (1813-1885)

vera contemplation and De septem gradibus amoris, were published in 1848 at See also:

• HANOVER
• HANOVER (Ger. Hannover)

Hanover; also Reflections from the See also:

• MIRROR (through O. Fr. mirour, mod. miroir, from a sup-posed Late Lat. miratorium, from mirari, to admire)

Mirror of a Mystic (1906) and See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Zierde der geistlichen Hochzeit (1901) . See See also:

• RUFUS, GAIUS VALGIUS
• RUFUS, LUCIUS VARIUS (c 74—14 B.c.)

Rufus M . See also:

• JONES
• JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
• JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
• JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
• JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
• JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
• JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
• JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
• JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
• JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
• JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
• JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
• JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
• JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
• JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
• JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)

Jones, Studies in Mystical See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

Religion, pp . 308–14 (1909) ; M . See also:

• MAETERLINCK, MAURICE (1862— )

Maeterlinck, Ruysbroek and the Mystics, with selections from The Adornment of the Spiritual See also:

• MARRIAGE

Marriage (tr. by J . T .

Stoddart, See also:

• LONDON

London, 1894); and See also:

• ART

art . See also:

• MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

MYSTICISM .