Footnotes
[1]The Vita of Pomerius is printed in the Analecta Bollandiana, vol. iv. pp. 257 ff.
[2]The Book of Supreme Truth, cap. iv.
[3]The Twelve Béguines, cap. vii.
[4]Vita, cap. xv.
[5]De Vreese has identified 160 Flemish and 46 Latin MSS. of Ruysbroeck.
[6]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xxxvii.
[7]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xiv.
[8]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xxxvii.
[9]Op. cit., ibid.
[10]The Seven Degrees of Love, cap. xiv.
[11]The Kingdom of God’s Lovers, cap. xxix.
[12]The Mirror of Eternal Salvation, cap. viii.
[13]The Twelve Béguines, cap. ix.
[14]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xiv.
[15]The Book of Truth, cap. xi.
[16]The Mirror of Eternal Salvation, cap. xvii.
[17]Op. cit., cap. vii.
[18]The Sparkling Stone, cap. x.
[19]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xiv.
[20]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xiii.
[21]The Seven Degrees of Love, cap. xiv.
[22]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. iii. cap. i.
[23]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xvi.
[24]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xii.
[25]The Twelve Béguines, cap. viii.
[26]The Seven Degrees of Love, cap. i.
[27]The Mirror of Eternal Salvation, cap. xvi.
[28]The Sparkling Stone, cap. vi.
[29]The Mirror of Eternal Salvation, cap. vii.
[30]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. i. cap. xiv.
[31]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. i. capp. xii.-xxiv.
[32]The Kingdom of God’s Lovers, cap. xviii.
[33]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. i. cap. xxvi.
[34]The Twelve Béguines, cap. vii.
[35]The Sparkling Stone, cap. vii.
[36]The Twelve Béguines, cap. ix.
[37]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. iv.
[38]Cf. The Twelve Béguines, cap. x.
[39]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xix.; The Book of Truth, cap. ix.
[40]The Seven Degrees of Love, cap. xiv.
[41]The Kingdom of God’s Lovers, cap. xx.
[42]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xxiii.
[43]Op. cit., lib. ii. cap. xxvii.
[44]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xxiv.
[45]Richard Rolle; The Mending of Life, cap. xii. (Harford’s edition, p. 82).
[46]The Kingdom of God’s Lovers, cap. xxv.
[47]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xxviii.
[48]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xxix.
[49]The Sparkling Stone, cap. ii.
[50]Cp. The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. lvii.
[51]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xxxvi.
[52]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xxxviii.
[53]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. ii. cap. xxxix.
[54]The Sparkling Stone, cap. ii.
[55]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xi.
[56]Loc. cit.
[57]St. Augustine, Confessions, lib. vii. cap. x.
[58]St. Augustine, Confessions, lib. vii. capp. xvii. and xx.
[59]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xii.
[60]Loc. cit.
[61]The Kingdom of God’s Lovers, cap. xxxiv.
[62]The Seven Cloisters, cap. xix.
[63]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xii.
[64]The Mirror of Eternal Salvation, cap. xvii.
[65]The Sparkling Stone, cap. iii.
[66]Cap. viii.: ‘Of the Difference between the Secret Friends and the Hidden Sons of God.’
[67]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xii.
[68]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xvi.
[69]The Seven Cloisters, cap. xix.
[70]The Sparkling Stone, cap. viii.
[71]The Sparkling Stone, cap. ix.
[72]The Kingdom of God’s Lovers; cap. xxxiii.
[73]The Sparkling Stone, cap. ix.; cp. also The Twelve Béguines, cap. xvi.
[74]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xvi.
[75]The Sparkling Stone, cap. ix.; cp. also The Book of Truth, cap. xii.
[76]The Kingdom of God’s Lovers, cap. xxxi.
[77]The Book of Truth, cap. xii.
[78]The Sparkling Stone, cap. x.
[79]Op. cit. cap. ix.
[80]The Imitation of Christ, lib. iii. cap. xxiii.
[81]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xiv., and The Sparkling Stone, cap. ix.
[82]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xvi.
[83]The Sparkling Stone, cap. ix.; cp. The Book of Truth, cap. xi.
[84]The Twelve Béguines, cap. xvi.
[85]Ibid. cap. xiv.; cp. St. Bernard, De Diligendo Deo, cap. x. The same image is found in St. Macarius and many other writers.
[86]The Sparkling Stone, cap. xii.
[87]The Sparkling Stone, cap. x.
[88]The Sparkling Stone, cap. x.
[89]Op. cit. cap. xii.
[90]Op. cit. cap. xiii.; cp. also The Seven Degrees, cap. xiv.
[91]The Sparkling Stone, cap. xiv.
[92]The Spiritual Marriage, lib. iii. cap. v.
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