Part 1

RUYSBROECK

The Devotional Library.

Handsomely printed and bound, price 3s. 6d. each volume.

THIRD EDITION.

THE KEY OF THE GRAVE.

A Book for the Bereaved.

By W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D.

SECOND EDITION.

MEMORANDA SACRA.

By Professor J. RENDEL HARRIS, M.A., Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

THE GENERAL GORDON EDITION.

CHRIST MYSTICAL.

By JOSEPH HALL, D.D., Bishop of Norwich.

Reprinted, with General Gordon’s marks, from the Original Copy used by him, and with an Introduction on his Theology By the Rev. H. CARRUTHERS WILSON, M.A.

LONDON: HODDER AND STOUGHTON.

RUYSBROECK AND THE MYSTICS

WITH SELECTIONS FROM RUYSBROECK

BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK

TRANSLATED BY JANE T. STODDART

LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27 PATERNOSTER ROW

MDCCCXCIV

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

The following is an authorised translation of the essay prefixed by M. Maeterlinck to L’Ornement des Noces Spirituelles, de Ruysbroeck L’Admirable, Traduit du Flamand par Maurice Maeterlinck, which was published in 1891 by Paul Lacomblez of Brussels. I have added selected passages from Ruysbroeck’s own work.

CONTENTS

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M. MAETERLINCK’S INTRODUCTION TO HIS TRANSLATION OF “THE ADORNMENT OF THE SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE”--

I 1

II 29