Chapter 13 (part 3)

The transformation of base substance — outer matter or the inner soul — into a purified, perfected, or 'gold' state; the magnum opus as both laboratory practice and spiritual allegory.

The text uses language of moulding substance and regeneration into a new will.

Eckhart's signature doctrine that the Father eternally begets the Son in the ground of the soul; the human interior as the actual site of the divine generative act, distinct from inner_light's static indwelling.

The word of the power of God is described as active life within the soul's image.

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

The flesh with its desires is warned against co-operating in prayer to avoid introducing earthly desires.

Ontological opposition between two primal principles (light/darkness, truth/lie, spirit/matter) as the fundamental structure of reality.

The text contrasts the divine Spirit with inferior elements, flesh, and terrestrial things.

The uncreated luminous quality of the divine, sometimes experienced directly in mystical states; illumination as revelation.

A real sun arises within the regenerated soul, and she is illumined by the outspeaking of God.

Fragments of divine light or spirit trapped inside material bodies, awaiting liberation and return to their source.

Mentions powers received from God and the divine Spirit residing within the human nature.

Sufi self-effacement in God — the via by which the lover is unmade as a separate ego and recovered as God's act; specifies the practice/event rather than mystical_union's resulting state.

True prayer requires the sacrifice of the personal will and surrender of self to God.

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

Spiritual regeneration depends on intense hunger for the Spirit rather than learning or scientific knowledge.

The practice of stilling the mind and speech to open receptivity to divine knowledge or presence.

The will must turn away from all creatures to stand pure before God.

Disciplined inward attention — sitting, focused, or open-awareness practice — as a stand-alone term that umbrellas active_contemplation, inner_silence, and dhyana-style sitting.

Prayer is described as an internal action of inspeaking and outspeaking between soul and God.

A spiritual elite who possess the divine spark and are predestined for salvation, contrasted with psychic (faithful) and hylic (material) persons.

A distinction is made between true pray-ers and mouth-Christians who do not understand the meaning.

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 soul must sacrifice itself entirely to God and turn away from all creatures.

The maintenance of a state of cleanliness—physical, moral, or spiritual—required for encounter with the divine.

The soul must stand pure before God and turn away from earthly desires to receive advantage from prayer.

Daily review of thought and action as spiritual practice.

The soul must ensure earthly desires do not co-operate in prayer.

The felt condition of exile from one's divine origin — Rumi's reed flute torn from its bed, Plotinus's 'we have forgotten,' the Gnostic forgetfulness; the affective wound that complements return_to_source and gives the return its motive.

The soul is imprisoned by terrestrial loves and self-will which prevent the action of the Holy Spirit.

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 soul is regenerated into another will and partakes of celestial nutriment to become kindled by divine love.

Division of the human being into three principles: spirit (pneuma), soul (psyche), and body/matter (hyle or soma).

Distinguishes between the soul, the divine Spirit, and the inferior elements of nature.

The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.

Prayer is defined as the union with God where only that which is divine enters into relation with the Divine.

A form of meditation that uses imagery, imagination, or symbolic thought rather than purely empty stillness.

[auto] Describes faith as grasping the divine in one's 'imagination' so that it becomes formed into an image within.

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.

[auto] The passage emphasizes surrendering the whole self-will to God and turning away from all creatures.

The reunification of complementary divine principles (male-female, spirit-matter) as a symbol of wholeness and salvation.

[auto] The text explicitly mentions the 'marriage of the Lamb' as a result of spiritual regeneration.

Ascetic disciplines that prepare the body and mind for spiritual receptivity or purification.

[auto] Explicitly defines the original meaning of 'prayer' as surrendering self-will and uses 'hunger and thirst' as spiritual metaphors.

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

[auto] References the 'divine Spirit within himself' and the soul becoming 'kindled' by celestial nutriment.

The claim that the divine realm is present inside the individual, accessible without external mediation.

[auto] Emphasizes that spiritual regeneration and the image of Christ are formed 'within me' and within the 'own soul.'

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

[auto] Describes the divine presence as 'active life' and the Holy Spirit acting dynamically within the soul.

The divine reason, word, or ordering principle through which the universe was created; mediates between the transcendent God and the material world.

[auto] Identifies the 'word of the power of God' as the active life within the formed image of Christ.

The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.

[auto] The passage describes surrendering self-will to God and allowing the Holy Spirit to act within the soul, implying a merging of wills.

Direct address to the divine, whether petitionary, contemplative, or liturgical; speech and silence offered upward.

[auto] The passage extensively defines prayer as the union with God and the sacrifice of personal will.

Critique of outward religious observance that lacks inner transformation; form without substance.

[auto] The author critiques 'mouth-Christians' and mere word-prayer that lacks inner transformation.

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

[auto] Calls for rising above inferior nature and surrendering self-will to God to allow the Spirit's action.

Divine names or formulas that carry ontological power, used in prayer, liturgy, or magical practice.

[auto] States that the soul is kindled by the great love that dwells in the 'name Jesus,' attributing power to the name.

A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.

[auto] The text explicitly instructs the individual to 'rise by the aid of the divine Spirit... above the inferior elements within his own nature.'