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Handout #140 |
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Meister Eckhart |
| Meister Eckhart
(1260-1327 A.D.), born at Erfurt, a Dominican, lived in Paris, Strasbourg
and Cologne. The chief representative of the Rhenish movement of
mysticism, he was-accused of propagating erroneous doctrines about the
divine nature. He left for Avignon to defend himself, and there died. In
1320 A.D. John XXII condemned a certain number of propositions drawn from
his works, essentially sermons noted down by his disciples.
God has no name, for no one can say or understand anything about him ... Thus if I say 'God is good, that is not true; I am good but God is not good ... And if I also say 'God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he. If I say yet again, 'God is a being, that is not true; he is a being above being ... a master says, If I had a God whom I could know, I would not regard him as God. . . ' You must love him as he is: neither God, nor spirit, nor image; even more, the One without commingling, pure, luminous ... |