The inquisitors of this last place summoned him before their court on the charge of heresy, but while his trial was pending he died.

He was a Christian pantheist, teaching that God was the only true being, and that man was capable of reaching {31} the absolute.

Of all the mystics he was the most speculative and philosophical.

Both Henry Suso and John Tauler were his disciples.

[Sidenote: Suso, 1300-66] Suso's ecstatic piety was of the ultra-medieval type, romantic, poetic, and bent on winning personal salvation by the old means of severe self-torture and the constant practice of good works.