Meister Eckhart, Part II<\/strong><\/a>\nFriday, September 29, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\nWhat is life? God\u2019s being is my life. <\/em>\u2014Meister Eckhart [1]\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nMeister Eckhart illustrates the height of western non-dualism. This is why he is largely impossible to understand with our usual dualistic mind. When Eckhart says, \u201cLet us pray to God that we may be free of God,\u201d [2] our logical mind would see this as nonsense! It takes unitive consciousness to discover what Eckhart means. There is no concept of God that can contain God. Your present notion of God is never God. As Augustine said, \u201cIf you comprehend it, it is not God.\u201d [3] We can only come to know God as we let go of our ideas about God, and <em>what is not God,<\/em> is slowly stripped away.<\/p>\n<p>Before transformation, you pray <em>to<\/em> God. After transformation you pray <em>through <\/em>God, as official Christian prayers say: \u201c<em>Through <\/em>Christ our Lord. Amen!\u201d Before radical conversion, you pray to God as if God were over there, an object like all other objects. After conversion (<em>con-vertere<\/em>, to turn around or to turn with), you look out <em>from <\/em>God with eyes other than your own. As Meister Eckhart stated it in one of his sermons, \u201cThe eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me: my eye and God\u2019s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing and one love.\u201d [4] All we humans are doing is allowing God to \u201ccomplete the circuit\u201d within us\u2014until we see from the same perspective. This is the \u201cmind of Christ\u201d (1 Corinthians 2:16), which will be experienced as a \u201cspiritual revolution\u201d in thinking (Ephesians 4:22).<\/p>\n<p>Michael Demkovich, a Dominican priest and scholar, explains: \u201cIt is through our coming to know the truest self that we are transformed into something divine. Eckhart\u2019s notion of <em>deiformity<\/em>, a person\u2019s conformity to this underlying reality of Godliness, is critical in his understanding . . . of the soul.\u201d [5] Eckhart did not see the soul as dualistically opposed to the body, but as a guide to the body\u2019s experience. Because God took on a human body in Christ and is present within humanity, the body is sacred. In his preaching, Eckhart uses a verbal illustration, <em>exemplum<\/em>, of eating to illustrate the body-soul relationship: \u201cThe food that I eat is united with my body just as my body is with my soul. My body and my soul are united in one being . . . and this typifies that great union we are destined to have with God, in one being.\u201d [6]<\/p>\n<p>You can see why much of the dualistic church was just not ready for dear Meister Eckhart, and thus he was never canonized a saint. But he is still a \u201cMeister\u201d! When copying one of Eckhart\u2019s most famous sermons, an anonymous scribe praised him as \u201cone from whom God hid nothing.\u201d [7]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gateway to Silence:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Practice being present.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Awareness of the Call<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! \u20141 Corinthians 9:16<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>We are inclined to forget the deeply spiritual and supernatural touch of God. If you are able to tell exactly where you were when you received the call of God and can explain all about it, I question whether you have truly been called. The call of God does not come like that; it is much more supernatural. The realization of the call in a person\u2019s life may come like a clap of thunder or it may dawn gradually. But however quickly or slowly this awareness comes, it is always accompanied with an undercurrent of the supernatural\u2014 something that is inexpressible and produces a \u201cglow.\u201d At any moment the sudden awareness of this incalculable, supernatural, surprising call that has taken hold of your life may break through\u2014 \u201cI chose you\u2026\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+15:16\">John 15:16<\/a>). The call of God has nothing to do with salvation and sanctification. You are not called to preach the gospel because you are sanctified; the call to preach the gospel is infinitely different. Paul describes it as a compulsion that was placed upon him.<\/p>\n<p>If you have ignored, and thereby removed, the great supernatural call of God in your life, take a review of your circumstances. See where you have put your own ideas of service or your particular abilities ahead of the call of God. Paul said, \u201c\u2026woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!\u201d He had become aware of the call of God, and his compulsion to \u201cpreach the gospel\u201d was so strong that nothing else was any longer even a competitor for his strength.<\/p>\n<p>If a man or woman is called of God, it doesn\u2019t matter how difficult the circumstances may be. God orchestrates every force at work for His purpose in the end. If you will agree with God\u2019s purpose, He will bring not only your conscious level but also all the deeper levels of your life, which you yourself cannot reach, into perfect harmony for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! \u20141 Corinthians 9:16<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysticism: Week 1 Meister Eckhart, Part II Friday, September 29, 2017 What is life? God\u2019s being is my life. \u2014Meister Eckhart [1] Meister Eckhart illustrates the height of western non-dualism. This is why he is largely impossible to understand with our usual dualistic mind. 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What is life? God\u2019s being is my life. <\/em>\u2014Meister Eckhart [1]\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nMeister Eckhart illustrates the height of western non-dualism. This is why he is largely impossible to understand with our usual dualistic mind. When Eckhart says, \u201cLet us pray to God that we may be free of God,\u201d [2] our logical mind would see this as nonsense! It takes unitive consciousness to discover what Eckhart means. There is no concept of God that can contain God. Your present notion of God is never God. As Augustine said, \u201cIf you comprehend it, it is not God.\u201d [3] We can only come to know God as we let go of our ideas about God, and <em>what is not God,<\/em> is slowly stripped away.<\/p>\n<p>Before transformation, you pray <em>to<\/em> God. After transformation you pray <em>through <\/em>God, as official Christian prayers say: \u201c<em>Through <\/em>Christ our Lord. Amen!\u201d Before radical conversion, you pray to God as if God were over there, an object like all other objects. After conversion (<em>con-vertere<\/em>, to turn around or to turn with), you look out <em>from <\/em>God with eyes other than your own. As Meister Eckhart stated it in one of his sermons, \u201cThe eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me: my eye and God\u2019s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing and one love.\u201d [4] All we humans are doing is allowing God to \u201ccomplete the circuit\u201d within us\u2014until we see from the same perspective. This is the \u201cmind of Christ\u201d (1 Corinthians 2:16), which will be experienced as a \u201cspiritual revolution\u201d in thinking (Ephesians 4:22).<\/p>\n<p>Michael Demkovich, a Dominican priest and scholar, explains: \u201cIt is through our coming to know the truest self that we are transformed into something divine. Eckhart\u2019s notion of <em>deiformity<\/em>, a person\u2019s conformity to this underlying reality of Godliness, is critical in his understanding . . . of the soul.\u201d [5] Eckhart did not see the soul as dualistically opposed to the body, but as a guide to the body\u2019s experience. Because God took on a human body in Christ and is present within humanity, the body is sacred. In his preaching, Eckhart uses a verbal illustration, <em>exemplum<\/em>, of eating to illustrate the body-soul relationship: \u201cThe food that I eat is united with my body just as my body is with my soul. My body and my soul are united in one being . . . and this typifies that great union we are destined to have with God, in one being.\u201d [6]<\/p>\n<p>You can see why much of the dualistic church was just not ready for dear Meister Eckhart, and thus he was never canonized a saint. But he is still a \u201cMeister\u201d! When copying one of Eckhart\u2019s most famous sermons, an anonymous scribe praised him as \u201cone from whom God hid nothing.\u201d [7]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gateway to Silence:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Practice being present.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Awareness of the Call<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! \u20141 Corinthians 9:16<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>We are inclined to forget the deeply spiritual and supernatural touch of God. If you are able to tell exactly where you were when you received the call of God and can explain all about it, I question whether you have truly been called. The call of God does not come like that; it is much more supernatural. The realization of the call in a person\u2019s life may come like a clap of thunder or it may dawn gradually. But however quickly or slowly this awareness comes, it is always accompanied with an undercurrent of the supernatural\u2014 something that is inexpressible and produces a \u201cglow.\u201d At any moment the sudden awareness of this incalculable, supernatural, surprising call that has taken hold of your life may break through\u2014 \u201cI chose you\u2026\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+15:16\">John 15:16<\/a>). The call of God has nothing to do with salvation and sanctification. You are not called to preach the gospel because you are sanctified; the call to preach the gospel is infinitely different. Paul describes it as a compulsion that was placed upon him.<\/p>\n<p>If you have ignored, and thereby removed, the great supernatural call of God in your life, take a review of your circumstances. See where you have put your own ideas of service or your particular abilities ahead of the call of God. Paul said, \u201c\u2026woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!\u201d He had become aware of the call of God, and his compulsion to \u201cpreach the gospel\u201d was so strong that nothing else was any longer even a competitor for his strength.<\/p>\n<p>If a man or woman is called of God, it doesn\u2019t matter how difficult the circumstances may be. God orchestrates every force at work for His purpose in the end. If you will agree with God\u2019s purpose, He will bring not only your conscious level but also all the deeper levels of your life, which you yourself cannot reach, into perfect harmony for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! \u20141 Corinthians 9:16<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysticism: Week 1 Meister Eckhart, Part II Friday, September 29, 2017 What is life? God\u2019s being is my life. \u2014Meister Eckhart [1] Meister Eckhart illustrates the height of western non-dualism. This is why he is largely impossible to understand with our usual dualistic mind. 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