Chapter 13 (part 14)

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

Divinity is described as requiring neither physical body nor soul to be self-existent and eternal.

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.

God in the Christ is said to live in the person who is dead to self.

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

Boehme states that God makes a person His child after they throw themselves into obedience.

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

The ground producing light is described as a place where neither evil nor good is hidden.

The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.

Divinity is characterized as self-existent and eternal without composite parts like body or soul.

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

The text describes the light of Divinity being revealed in man and the divine soul as the body of Christ.

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.

Boehme is quoted saying one must be dead to all sense of self for God to live in him.

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

The passage provides a specific definition of true prayer as a spiritual discipline.

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

The text advises seeking to realise oneness with Krishna or Christ through divine enlightenment.

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

True prayer involves bringing will, thought, and word into one, implying internal unification.

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

The Spirit of God is described as having power to unify will, thought, and word.

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

The concept of 'word' is included in the triad of true prayer, hinting at the divine ordering principle.

The human being as a small-scale image of the entire cosmos; the body, soul, and intellect mirroring the structure of the heavens and the divine — distinct from correspondence in that it makes the human the privileged mirror.

Man is described as the vessel required to enable the light of Divinity to become revealed in him.

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

The ground of light is described as a place where neither evil nor good is hidden.

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

The text uses paradoxes such as being dead to self so that God may live in him.

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).

One must be dead to all sense of self and cease to desire evil to receive God.

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

Self-conceit is criticized as repulsive, especially among those who boast of being servants of God.

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

The text distinguishes between body, soul, and spirit, as well as will, thought, and word.

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

The text advises realizing that man is one with Krishna or Christ.

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

[auto] True prayer is defined as actively bringing will, thought, and word into one by the power of the Spirit.

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

[auto] The passage contrasts the divine state with the dangers of the devil and fear, establishing a spiritual opposition.

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] Complete obedience and being dead to the sense of self are central requirements for divine indwelling.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly compares the human intellect to the moon receiving light from the sun, identifying the divine spirit as the true light.

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

[auto] The human intellect is described as receiving light from the divine sun, indicating an internal capacity for divine illumination.

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

[auto] The text emphasizes divine self-reliance and an internal state of superiority over the devil.

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

[auto] The text describes finding one's true dignity and manhood in God, implying a merging of identity with the divine.

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

[auto] The seeker is advised to put their point of gravitation into divine self-reliance, indicating a return to the divine origin.

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

[auto] Finding true dignity and manhood in God is presented as a form of recognizing one's true nature.

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

[auto] The seeker is described as aiming for divine enlightenment and becoming superior to the devil through reliance on God.

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.

[auto] The text describes man becoming a child of God and the divine soul being the body of Christ.