This volume contains three of Jan van Ruysbroeck's best works: The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage , The Sparkling Stone , and The Book of Truth . These works are remarkable for their combination of lofty spiritual philosophy and robust common sense. As we read them, we feel that we are in touch with a man who, in his ecstatic ascents to God, never loses hold of the actualities of human life. In the Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage , he traces...