Meister Eckhart

"Meister Eckhart is coming to be recognized to-day as the most  important spiritual master of the Middle Ages... His genius lay in his profound  insight into the deeper levels of human consciousness...But he expressed himself with great freedom and often  in paradoxical language, which could easily lead to confusion. But  behind his paradoxes lay an extraordinary insight into the  working of the human mind.

One of these insights was his distinction between GOD and the GODHEAD. He saw that most people in their prayer project an image of God, which, though it may be a useful aid to prayer, falls immeasurably short of the divine reality. This divine reality beyond name and form, beyond word and thought, he called GODHEAD. The Godhead is known not by the rational mind with its concepts and judgments, but by the spark  of the soul, where the human being encounters the divine reality  in its eternal ground. Eckhart was thus able to lead the church  beyond the conceptual understanding of a personal God to a  mystical experience in which the Godhead itself is encountered in  its infinite, transcendent reality.

He thus remains the great master of mystical theology, who is a model for the church to-day in its encounter with the mystical traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam and other religions of the world.”

~ Roland Ropers

Meister Eckhart Sermons                     
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