Prologue
1916 translation, including The Sparkling Stone and The Book of Supreme Truth
Jan van Ruysbroeck, C. A. Wynschenk Dom, and Evelyn Underhill
Prologue
The man who would live in the most perfect state of Holy Church must be a good and zealous man; an inward and ghostly man; an uplifted and God-seeing man; and an outflowing man to all in common. Whenever these four things are together in a man, then his state is perfect; and through the increase of grace he shall continually grow and progress in all virtues, and in the knowledge of truth, before God and before all men.