Chapter XLVIb

The infant or child as symbol of the unfallen, undivided spiritual state; return to primordial simplicity.

The author explicitly yields to the Church 'as a simple child oweth,' using the child as a symbol of the proper humble and receptive spiritual state.

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 phrase 'abiding our Lord's will' and being 'well-content' with the unknown demonstrates a radical letting-go of personal desire for knowledge in favor of divine will.

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

The passage explicitly states that 'much privity is hid' and will remain unknown until God deems the viewer worthy, highlighting the concealment of divine mysteries.

Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.

The text attributes the timing of revelation to 'God of His goodness' making humans worthy, indicating a divine ordering of events toward an intelligible end.