To comprehend and to understand God

above all similitudes, as He is in Himself,

is to be God with God, without intermediary,

and without any otherness that can be

come a hindrance or an intermediary.

Whosoever wishes to understand this

must have died to himself, and must live in God,

and must turn his gaze to the eternal light

in the ground of his spirit,

where the Hidden Truth reveals Itself

without means.

- Ruysbroek.