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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 Sage's state is 'immovable' and 'untroubled,' immune to violent emotions or evil, reflecting a radical letting-go of worldly disturbances.

Augustinian and Plotinian doctrine that evil has no positive being of its own but is a lack, distortion, or absence of the good — denying ontological dualism while preserving moral seriousness.

The text asserts that 'nothing whatever of all that is known as evil can set it awry,' implying evil lacks the positive power to affect the fixed Good.

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

The Good is described as immediately present to the Sage, implying direct experiential knowledge rather than mediated belief.

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

[auto] The passage explicitly states that bodily gratifications stifle happiness and have no place in the life of the Sage.

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

[auto] The Sage's happiness is described as internal, immovable, and independent of external processes or evils.

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

[auto] The text describes the Good as immediately present to the Sage, implying a state of union or direct connection with the divine.

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

[auto] The passage emphasizes that the Sage is present to himself, indicating a state of self-possession and awareness.