Maeterlinck’s introduction to his 1891 French translation of The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage presents Jan van Ruysbroeck, the fourteenth-century Flemish contemplative, as one of the profoundest of all mystics. Jane Stoddart adds selected passages from Ruysbroeck himself, on Christ the sun of the soul, the lesson of the bee and the dew of midday.
An evocative short introduction to Christian mysticism by a Nobel laureate. Download the free EPUB.