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The ultimate and highest leave taking is leaving
God for GOD,
leaving your notion of
God
for an
experience of that which
transcends all notions.
If I
were alone in a desert and
feeling
afraid,
I would want a child to be with
me.
For then
my
fear would disappear and
I would be made strong.
This is what
life in itself can do because it is so noble,
so full of pleasure and so powerful.
But if I could not have a
child with
me
I
would like to have at least a living
animal at my side to comfort
me.
Therefore, let those who
bring about wonderful
things
in their big,
dark
books take an
animal to help them.
The
life
within the
animal will give them strength in turn.
For equality
gives strength, in all things and at
all times.
Meister
Eckhart
JOHANNES ECKART (Meister
Eckhart, in English Master Eckhart). Meister Eckhart of Hochheim,
was condemned by the
Roman Catholic church
for expressing
heretical
views concerning
theology. Only in this century has
the bull in agro domini, in which Meister Eckhart was severely attacked
on a number of mystical
concepts
expressed in his sermons, been
officially withdrawn. This was worse for
humanity than the
condemnation of
Galileo Galilei.
In
Meister Eckhart we find religion
expressed in its
purest form, a form which goes
back in its spiritual
experience to the
mystical roots of
early Christianity. The
Roman Catholic church
could have compared Meister Eckhart theology with the writings of the early church
fathers, especially with the Alexandrian fathers.
Unfortunately some of Alexandrian fathers were
branded heretics during certain
periods by the Roman
Catholic church as well.
The
Roman Catholic church
condemned Meister Eckhart because his
mysticism was a threat to the
Roman Catholic church.
In Meister Eckhart's view
religion became too personal. The
Roman Catholic church
felt that Meister Eckhart 's
mysticism could
alienate the
believer from the hierarchy of the
Roman Catholic church,
because in Meister Eckhart's theology
salvation was not dependent on
Roman Catholic church
membership and rituals, but on the desire of the
believer to enter a close
relationship with
God.
Meister Eckhart never attacked the
hierarchy of the Roman
Catholic church.
Meister Eckhart considered his
teachings to be wholly in tune
with the teachings of
Jesus. Meister Eckhart
must be given credit for having seen
the ancient wisdom of
Jesus, which has been
obliterated through the
centuries.
Meister Eckhart, like
Jesus, was a
mystic by
nature, who wanted
mankind to find
God in themselves. Everyone who can
realize this becomes a
son or a
daughter of God.
To Meister Eckhart
God
emanates
power, love and beauty into
creation, because
God cannot do otherwise.
God is
eternally the
changeless
One. God is the
Word that must be spoken.
The Word of
God
emanates and yet
remains changeless.
The Word of
God is such a great
wonder. All
creatures
emanate from
God and yet remain
within
God. God is in
all things.
God is
within,
God remains
without.
The
mystic
feels God
within
himself. God is felt to be still,
pure,
blissful, apart and yet not
apart from all.
The
mystic
feels God is also a part of the
essence of the
mystic . For
God lives in the depth of the
mystic's
soul, a soul which is of
substance and yet not of
substance. This is a personal
experience in the
mystic's
consciousness about the
relationship between his
substance, his
soul and God.
The
mystic
sees this same
relationship in all
creatures and in all
creation, because he
sees that all
things are of 'substance and
soul', of
matter and
consciousness. All
things
emanate from
God and all
things
wish to
return to their
source. The ultimate
goal of all
creation is to rest again in the arms
of God.
"Whether you like it or not, if you
know it or not,
secretly, from
within, the
whole of
nature reaches after
God."- Meister Eckhart
God is to be found
deep in the human
soul.Tremendous comfort is
given to the individual
who makes fusion with
God his
goal.
Fusion rests on the fact
that the human
soul is part of
creation, comes from
God and has God
as its innermost kernel, a divine spark.
God, prominently
alive,
enlightens the
human
soul through the
divine spark. The task
of man is not to search
without
himself for
happiness but to search
within where this
divine spark
lives. Meister Eckhart suggests
man leave his
senses behind and grasp the
divine spark, the
source of all
goodness and
happiness.
The
human
soul is the most
glorious part of
God's creation as it is
conscious of the
knowledge that
God rests within it. The
soul's search is answered when the
soul becomes
conscious of
God, knows that God is all powerful,
feels the
blissful
force of God residing in the
self's soul. Not only does the
soul
know this, but it
feels and
experiences
fusion!
This can only be because the innermost kernel, the
divine spark of
God is a part of the
soul. Realization of
God can only grow from the
divine spark into an
ecstatic
divine fire, setting the
whole
soul into a
divine glow, if the
soul is entirely
free and unconditioned.
The
soul can only be
free and unconditioned if it is not
enslaved by the senses and the outside
world. In the
souls
spiritual growth the
soul must become detached from all
outward conditions. It
does so by spiritual exercises,
which train the soul to look
inward.
This does
not mean that the soul can block all
external impressions and stimuli,
the soul's natural condition will not allow it to do so, but it
learns to be unmoved and unshaken by them. The
soul becomes invulnerable and
unconquerable by the outside
world.
Nothing from
outside can
harm the
soul anymore, because
contact with the
divine spark
within is supplying
regenerative energy all the time. In the
center is divine
calmness, so the
soul will regain this
calmness every
time.
In the words
of Meister Eckhart this means that a person must be
free from the
physical
world of
desire in order
to live in the kingdom of
God. A
human must be a stranger to the
physical
world of
desire. His conversations must
be with God. He must
live a
life separate from his
desire. In the
beginning the
mystical aspirant will
feel
pain when he tries to tear
himself away from the
physical
world of
desire, because he is so
conditioned by it. At the end of the mystical
path he becomes like a rock
unshaken by the raging blasts of the stormy ocean.
Meister
Eckhart claimed that spiritual
perfection can only be reached by
surrendering the self to
God. This is the most important step to
take. Only after surrendering our own will completely to
God will we be able to attain
fusion with
God. If we let God's
divine spark become a
divine fire in our
soul then the great undescribable
glory of the
One without comparison fills our
whole
being.
We start to laugh with
joy. We
feel complete,
content and
satisfied. We
know that now at last we do
know. We have finally
reached our destiny, because
now we understand.
Now we have come again to
were we came from.
God is giving
birth constantly. Not only physically in
nature which surrounds us, but also
spiritually, in the
inner soul
of everything alive.
God does not stop being the
Creator after
physical birth.
God
goes on and on in
renewal.
The soul has
its roots in God and is being born innocent and
fresh constantly.
Every human must become like
Jesus to fulfil the mission of
Jesus.
God is a force residing in the
heart of the
universe and is so
transcendent that
God can never be defined in our modes of
thinking and
perceiving.
God also has a living dynamic counterpart which
evolves in
history and lets
His self be
known in the
human
soul. This is
known to
humans as the
Son of
God, Jesus.
After being
granted a professorship in Cologne, Meister Eckhart was accused of being a
heretic. During the investigative
process Meister Eckhart was ordered to the papal court at Avignon were he
died.
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