[63]_The Twelve Beguines_, cap. xii.

[64]_The Mirror of Eternal Salvation_, cap. xvii.

[65]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. iii.

[66]Cap. viii.: 'Of the Difference between the Secret Friends and the Hidden Sons of G.o.d.'

[67]_The Twelve Beguines_, cap. xii.

[68]_The Twelve Beguines_, cap. xvi.

[69]_The Seven Cloisters_, cap. xix.

[70]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. viii.

[71]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. ix.

[72]_The Kingdom of G.o.d's Lovers_; cap. x.x.xiii.

[73]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. ix.; cp. also _The Twelve Beguines_, cap.

xvi.

[74]_The Twelve Beguines_, cap. xvi.

[75]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. ix.; cp. also _The Book of Truth_, cap.

xii.

[76]_The Kingdom of G.o.d's Lovers_, cap. x.x.xi.

[77]_The Book of Truth_, cap. xii.

[78]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. x.

[79]_Op. cit._ cap. ix.

[80]_The Imitation of Christ_, lib. iii. cap. xxiii.

[81]_The Twelve Beguines_, cap. xiv., and _The Sparkling Stone_, cap. ix.

[82]_The Twelve Beguines_, cap. xvi.

[83]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. ix.; cp. _The Book of Truth_, cap. xi.

[84]_The Twelve Beguines_, cap. xvi.

[85]_Ibid._ cap. xiv.; cp. St. Bernard, _De Diligendo Deo_, cap. x. The same image is found in St. Macarius and many other writers.

[86]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. xii.

[87]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. x.

[88]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. x.

[89]_Op. cit._ cap. xii.

[90]_Op. cit._ cap. xiii.; cp. also _The Seven Degrees_, cap. xiv.

[91]_The Sparkling Stone_, cap. xiv.

[92]_The Spiritual Marriage_, lib. iii. cap. v.