Chapter 1. Wherefore This Book Was Written
1916 translation, including The Sparkling Stone and The Book of Supreme Truth
Jan van Ruysbroeck, C. A. Wynschenk Dom, and Evelyn Underhill
Chapter 1. Wherefore This Book Was Written
Certain of my friends have desired and besought me, that I should show and make plain in a few words and according to my best cunning, shortly and clearly, how I understand and feel the truth of all the highest teachings that I have written before; so that none should take offense at my words, but everyone should profit by them. And this I willingly consent to do. I will, with God's help, teach the humble who love virtue and truth; and, with the same words, I shall inwardly vex and darken the false and the proud: for to these my words will be displeasing and contrary, and this the proud cannot endure, but it provokes them to anger.