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Flowers of a Mystic Garden
Paperback
Metaphysical GeneralReligion General
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: Apr 3 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Flowers of a Mystic Garden gathers the most luminous passages from the writings of Jan van Ruysbroeck (1293-1381), the great Flemish contemplative whom his contemporaries called the Admirable. Born in a small village near Brussels, Ruysbroeck spent his life in pursuit of a single consuming question: what does it mean for the human soul to be utterly transformed in God? Ordained a priest at twenty-four, he eventually withdrew with two companions into the forest hermitage of Groenendael, where he wrote by inspiration - wandering among the trees, setting down his visions as they came - producing a body of mystical literature that stands among the most profound in the Christian tradition.
This volume, translated into English from the celebrated French rendering of Ernest Hello, distills the very heart of Ruysbroeck's vision into a garden of meditations, each one a living bloom of contemplative insight. Here the reader will encounter his signature themes in their full magnificence: the soul's restless ascent toward the Divine, the paradox of annihilation and abundance in union with God, the three-fold life of the active, interior, and contemplative soul, and the supreme mystery of what Ruysbroeck calls the fathomless abyss - the point at which the human spirit plunges beyond all images, all knowing, all self, into the consuming fire of Infinite Love.
Ruysbroeck wrote not for scholars but for souls - for those who hunger and thirst, who feel the inadequacy of surface religion, who sense that beneath the visible world a boundless reality pulses and draws. His language moves between breathtaking sublimity and startling earthiness, between the tenderness of a lover and the thunder of a prophet. Thomas à Kempis revered him. Johannes Tauler sought him out. The poet Maeterlinck called him the greatest of the mystics. The United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld drew from his writings a philosophy of selfless service that shaped his entire life.
For the modern reader, Flowers of a Mystic Garden offers a rare and precious gift: an initiation into the deep waters of Christian mysticism from one of its most fearless and luminous guides. Whether you come as a scholar of medieval spirituality, a practitioner of contemplative prayer, or simply a seeker drawn to the perennial wisdom of the inner life, these pages will reward you with beauty, with challenge, and with the unmistakable fragrance of a soul that has truly touched the divine.
A timeless classic of Western mysticism - as fresh, as wild, and as necessary as the forest in which it was born.
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