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John Van Ruysbroeck, The Sparkling Stone
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CHAPTER I THROUGH THREE THINGS A MAN BECOMES GOOD
CHAPTER II THROUGH THREE THINGS A MAN BECOMES INWARD
CHAPTER III CHAPTER IIITHROUGH THREE THINGS A MAN BECOMES GOD-SEEING
CHAPTER IV OF THE SPARKLING STONE, AND OF THE NEW NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE SECRETS OF GOD
CHAPTER V OF THE WORKS WHICH GOD WORKS IN ALL IN COMMON AND OF FIVE KINDS OF SINNERS
CHAPTER VI OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HIRELINGS AND THE FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF GOD
CHAPTER VII OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FAITHFUL SERVANTS AND THE SECRET FRIENDS OF GOD
CHAPTER VIII OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SECRET FRIENDS AND THE HIDDEN SONS OF GOD
CHAPTER IX HOW WE MAY BECOME HIDDEN SONS OF GOD, AND ATTAIN TO THE GOD-SEEING LIFE
CHAPTER X HOW WE, THOUGH ONE WITH GOD, MUST ETERNALLY REMAIN OTHER THAN GOD
CHAPTER XII OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST ON MOUNT THABOR
CHAPTER XIII HOW WE OUGHT TO HAVE FRUITION OF GOD
CHAPTER XIVOF THAT COMMON LIFE WHICH COMES FROM THE CONTEMPLATION AND FRUITION OF GOD
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.