Chapter XXVI, Section 1d

Describing the divine only by negation—God transcends all positive categories and concepts; the via negativa.

The text defines the enlightened one through negation of attributes like pleasure, pain, and germs.

The material body viewed as a prison, tomb, or source of error that hinders spiritual knowledge and return.

The mention of 'kandhas' (bodily parts) ending through death implies the body is a temporary condition.

A state of awareness transcending ordinary human consciousness, often involving unity with the universe or higher dimensions.

The enlightened one is described as knowing the destruction and return of beings everywhere.

Eckhart's Abgeschiedenheit/Gelassenheit — radical letting-go of will, image, and grasping that opens the soul to God; distinct from inner_silence (quietness) and from material renunciation, and adjacent to Sufi tark and Buddhist non-grasping as a practice rather than a metaphysical claim.

The passage explicitly describes the Brâhmana who has left what gives pleasure and what gives pain, embodying radical non-grasping.

The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.

The path of the enlightened one is described as something the gods and spirits do not know.

Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.

Salvation is linked to knowing the destruction and return of beings everywhere.

Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.

The text notes that the path of the enlightened one is not known by gods or spirits.

The divine spark or luminous quality residing within the human person, potentially recognisable through introspection.

The awakened state is associated with being free from bondage and welfaring.

The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.

The text emphasizes leaving what gives pleasure and what gives pain as a mark of liberation.

Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.

The definition of the Brâhmana uses apparent contradictions like being cold and free from germs.

Eckhart's radical reading of Matthew 5:3 — the saint as one who wants nothing, knows nothing, and has nothing, having emptied even the will and the self with which to receive God; distinct from renunciation_of_wealth (material poverty).

The text describes the enlightened one as having passions extinct and being free from desire.

The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.

The mention of the return of beings suggests a cyclical movement toward an origin.

The recognition of one's own true divine nature as the primary path to liberation; 'know thyself' as soteriology.

The definition includes knowing the destruction and return of beings everywhere as a key attribute.

The Buddhist doctrine that all phenomena lack independent self-nature; emptiness as the positive recognition that things arise only in dependence on conditions — distinct from kenoma's mere deficiency.

The state is described as free from germs of renewed life, implying emptiness of potential rebirth.

The doctrine — central to Eastern Orthodox and Maximian theology — that the human person is progressively transformed into a partaker of the divine nature by grace, not merely justified or united in passing ecstasy.

The text refers to the hero who has conquered all the worlds and is called a Brâhmana.