The Reality of the Spirit: A Sermon of Meister Eckhart
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If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous.
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We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works. It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else. One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind.
The same Eckhart affirms that, on the contrary, the mystic is marvelously present to them on the only level where he can truly reach them, that is in God. Here in time we are celebrating the eternal birth which God the Father bore and unceasingly bears in eternity, because this same birth is now born in time, in human nature.
Walshe] Here God enters the soul with His all, not merely with a part: God enters here the ground of the soul.
Walshe] Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well. Therefore I pray to God to make me free of God, for my essential being is above God, taking God as the origin of creatures. Therefore I am my own cause according to my essence, which is eternal, and not according to my becoming, which is temporal.
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Therefore I am unborn, and according to my unborn mode I can never die. According to my unborn mode I have eternally been, am now and shall eternally remain. That which I am by virtue of birth, for it is mortal, and so must perish with time. If I were not, God would not be either. But you do not need to know this.
A great master says that his breaking-through is nobler than his emanation, and this is true. When I flowed forth from God, all creatures declared: There I shall receive an imprint that will raise me above all the angels. If anyone cannot understand this sermon, he need not worry.
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Now we shall say something else. One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind. They are, however, hermeneutically quite unconventional. For if he finds a man so poor, then God performs his own work, and the man is passive to God within him, and God is his own place of work, being a worker in himself. Walshe] The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He breaks through into me, so I break through into Him.
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He is believed to have been the author of the anonymous treatise, Theologia Germanica, which was a favorite of Martin Luther. Sermons by Meister Eckhart , translated by Claud Field. The text of this document is from a public domain resource first published around No publication date appears in the work itself. Retrieved from " https: Works originally in German. Views Read Edit View history. In other languages Add links. This page was last edited on 13 March , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.