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can live there. Ruysbroeck the Admirable one described, with a rare truth of expression, the
higher states of the spiritual life (4). These are the degrees about which it speaks in the new
pages, that we borrow from the beautiful translation of Ernest Hello. Although we are far
from the occult sciences that the vulgar one believes being the single prerogative of the
Rosicrucian brotherhood, we quote an orthodoxe indicator here to show that all the paths
lead to same and single Lumière.
SECRET FRIENDS AND MYSTERIOUS CHILDREN.
" There are an interior difference and unknown factor between the secret friends of God and
his mysterious children. All and sundry are held right in his presence. But the friends have
their virtues, even most interior, with a certain property, imperfect of its nature. They choose
and embrace their mode of adhesion to God, like the highest object of their power and their
desire. However their property is a wall which prevents them from penetrating in crowned
nudity, nudity without images. They are covered with portraits which represent their people
and their actions and these tables are placed between their heart and God. Although they
feel the divine union in the overflowing of their love, they have nevertheless, at the bottom
of themselves, the impression of an obstacle and a distance. They have neither the
concept, nor the love of simple transport; nudity, ignorant in its manner of being, is foreign
for them. Therefore their interior life, even at its highest times, is connected by the reason
and measurement human. They know and distinguish extremely well the intellectual
powers, that is to say; but simple contemplation, leaning on the divine Light, is a secrecy for
them. They are drawn up towards God in the heat of their love; but this property, imperfect
of its nature, prevents them from burning in fire. Determined to serve God and to always
like it, they do not have yet the desire of death sublimates, who is the life déiforme. They
do little case of external works and of this mysterious peace which lies in the activity. They
keep all their love for the interior consolations and imperfect softnesses; this is why they
stop on the way, rest before mysterious death and miss the crown which poses the Love
are unaware of the sublime ignorance of the transport which does not know itself any more,
and the magnificences of this vagrancy locked up in the love superessentiel, delivered
beginning, of end and measurement " Ah! the distance is large between the secret friend
and the mysterious child. The first fact of the rises sharp, in love and measured. But the
second from there will die higher, in the simplicity which does not know itself. It is absolutely
necessary to keep the interior love; thus we will await with joy the judgement of God and
the advent of Jesus-Christ. " But, in the exercise even of our activity, we die in ourselves
and any property; then, transported above all, by the sublime excess of the empty and
naked spirit, we will feel in us with certainty the perfection of the children of God, and the
spirit will touch us without intermediary, because we will be in the nudity " Moreover, the
rehabilitation of the man incarné in all the privileges of its primitive celestial state is described
in the Apocalypse under the symbols of the weddings of the Lamb and the new Name.
The curious ones will on top find developments admirable in works of Gichtel. Here the
glose of Ruysbroeck, which will be enough to fix the ideas.
THE SMALL STONE AND THE NEW NAME.
" to the winner, known as the Holy Spirit in the Apocalypse, I will give the hidden basket
and a white stone, and on stone a new name, which is not known of anybody, except that
who receives it " the winner, it is that which crossed and exceeded itself and all things. The
hidden basket, it is an interior feeling, a celestial joy. The stone is a small stone, if small that
one presses it with the feet without pain (calculus, stone; of calcare, to press). The stone is
white and brilliant like the round flame, infinitely small, polished on all the faces, surprisingly
light. One of the directions which presents this stone could be the symbol of Jesus-Christ.
Jesus is the frankness of the eternal light; he is the splendour of the Father; he is the mirror
without spot, in which live all the alive ones. To the winner transcending this white stone is