A MEDIÆVAL MYSTIC
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE
AND WRITINGS OF BLESSED JOHN
RUYSBROECK, CANON REGULAR OF
GROENENDAEL A.D. 1293-1381
BY
DOM VINCENT SCULLY, C.R.L.
(Permissu Superiorum)
LONDON
THOMAS BAKER
MCMX
PRINTED BY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.
TO
THE RIGHT REV. AUGUSTIN H. WHITE, C.R.L.
LORD ABBOT OF WALTHAM
CONTENTS
Page
INTRODUCTION ix
I. EARLY YEARS AND EDUCATION 1
II. AS A SECULAR PRIEST IN BRUSSELS 6
III. FALSE MYSTICS 10
IV. THE HERMITAGE OF GROENENDAEL 17
V. THE CANONS REGULAR OF GROENENDAEL 25
VI. PRIOR OF GROENENDAEL 33
VII. RUYSBROECK’S TREE 43
VIII. A DIRECTOR OF SOULS 47
IX. RUYSBROECK AND GERARD GROOTE 50
X. RUYSBROECK AND WINDESHEIM 58
XI. THE WRITINGS OF RUYSBROECK 67
XII. THE TEACHING OF RUYSBROECK 93
XIII. SOME APPRECIATIONS 105
XIV. LAST DAYS 118
XV. THE CULTUS OF BLESSED JOHN RUYSBROECK 124
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INTRODUCTION
The object of the following unpretentiouslittle volume is to give a simple and readableaccount in English of the life and writingsof a remarkable Flemish Mystic of the fourteenthcentury, a contemporary of our ownWalter Hilton. Though his memory andhonour have never faded in his own nativeBelgium, and though France and Germanyhave vied with each other in spreading histeaching and singing his praises, the veryname of Blessed John Ruysbroeck is practicallyunknown this side of the water. Weare acquainted with only one small work inEnglish dealing directly with the Saint orhis work at all, viz. Reflections from the Mirror[x]of Mystic,[1] giving the briefest sketch of hislife and some short extracts from his writingsas translated from the French rendering ofErnest Hello.
The original authorities for the history ofRuysbroeck are practically reduced to one,the biography by Henry Pomerius, a CanonRegular of Groenendael, entitled De Originemonasterii Viridisvallis una cum vitis B.Joannis Rusbrochii primi prioris hujusmonasterii et aliquot coaetaneorum ejus, re-editedby the Bollandists, Brussels, 1885. Itis certain that a disciple of John Ruysbroeck,John of Scoenhoven, also of Groenendael,who undertook the defence of Blessed John’swritings against Gerson, composed a shortbiography, but this was embodied in the workof Pomerius, and thereby as a separatevolume fell out of use and mem                        
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