Selections from the World's Devotional Classics (Volume 3) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SELECTION FROM Fkom The Translation CLAUD FIELD, M.A.JOHANNES ECKHART (OR ECKHARDT) German scholastic and mystic, called "Meister (or Master) Eckhart"; he was born at Hochheim, and the date of his birth was probably 1260, and of his death 1327. He joined the Dominicans at Erfurt. Later on he was prior at Erfurt and provincial in Tburingia. He was made provincial of his order for Saxony in 1303, and vicar-general in 1307. In 1311 he was appointed by the general chapter of Naples as teacher at Paris. After that time he went to Strasburg, then to Cologne. He was arraigned by the Archbishop of Cologne for heresy, but the accusation was not sustained. Two years after his death his writings were condemned by a papal bull of John XXII. "His thoughts are concentrated on the divine being in its unity and trinity; on the relation between God and the human soul; on the nature of the soul; on regeneration and union with God." His material is scattered through a number of works. Consult: Pfeiffer, "Meister Eckhart," second volume of "Deutsche Mystiker" (Leipzig, 1857); Martensen, "Meister Eckhart" (Hamburg, 1842); Preger, "Geschichte der deutsehen Mystik im Mittelalter" (Leipzig, 1874); "Meister Eckhart's mystische Sehriften" (Berlin, 1903); "Sehriften und Predigen" (Jena, 1909); Hartmann, "Die Geheimlehre in der christlische Religion nach den Erklarungen von Meister Eckhart" (Leipzig, 1895); Vaughan, "Hours with the Mystics" (London, 1860). Dttttoarb ana 3ntoart [The grace of God.?1 Cor. 15:10.] Grace is from God, and works in the depth of the soul whose powers it employs. It is a light which issues forth to do service under the guidance of the Spirit. The divine light permeates the soul, and lifts it above the turmoil of temporal things to rest in God. The soul can not pro...