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van Ruysbroeck, Jan - The Adornment of the Spiritual marriage - Whosoever would know God would go mad
Identifier
000901
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Ruysbroeck’s definition of God is in line with the generic one I provided – a super Intelligence that is the summation of all function and thereby inaccessible. We contain some of the functions of God, because God is made of all function, so we have a little bit of God in us. We have access to a smaller part of God via our Higher spirit which contains aspects of the truly divine
A description of the experience
The Adornment of the Spiritual marriage – Ruysbroeck
The incomprehensible and most high nature of God transcends all creatures in heaven and on earth. For all that a creature can comprehend is of the creature; but God is above all creatures and within and without all creatures and every created comprehension is too narrow to comprehend Him. Whosoever then would know and understand what God is – which is not permitted – he would go mad
The source of the experience
van Ruysbroeck, JanConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Communing with natureContemplation and detachment
LOVE
Reducing desires
Reducing threats
Squash the big I am
Suppressing memory
Suppression of learning
Commonsteps
Asking for forgivenessChanting, mantra and prayer
Forgiveness
Friendship and companionship
Generosity
Humility
Patience
Safe House
Serving others [charity]
Tedious repetitive tasks