The Spiritual EspousalsThe Low Way · Collection I
The active, inward, and God-seeing life
The Spiritual Espousals
Usually published in English as The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, Ruysbroeck’s great work joins ethical action, inward practice, and contemplative union without collapsing one into another.
- Format
- Web · print · JSON · text
- Length
- about 48,000 words
- Status
- Semantic transcription · structural validation complete
Fresh Low Way edition
One text, many forms.
What this edition contains
- The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage only
- All three books of the selected work
- No Underhill introduction, notes, or unrelated Ruysbroeck works
Edition & provenance
Freshly structured,
not silently modernized.
The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, translated by C. A. Wynschenk, with an introduction by Evelyn Underhill. J. M. Dent, London, 1916.
The historical translation is credited in provenance, but its introductions, commentary, notes, indexes, and publisher matter are not part of the reading text. The underlying edition was published before January 1, 1931 and is public domain in the United States. Copyright status can differ elsewhere.