11. On the Essence of Christianity

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There is another way to reach Jesus of Nazareth. There are documents that the soul finds when it gets to know the secrets of nature. All mystics testify to this. We are told, for example, that someone responded mockingly to Johann Ruysbroek, a famous mystic of the fourteenth century, when he proclaimed: “Well, master, you talk as if you were with Adam in paradise.” To which Ruysbroek replied: “Yes, I was there.” Angelus Silesius says in his “Cherubinischer Wandersmann”:

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