[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. _Printed by_ Morrison & Gibb Limited _Edinburgh_ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ruysbroeck, by Evelyn Underhill