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Ground of the soul

In Meister Eckhart, the innermost depth of the soul where God’s ground and the soul’s ground are one.

Also: grunt, Seelengrund

Christian mysticism

Eckhart taught that in the ground of the soul, beyond its faculties, there is something uncreated, where God’s ground is the soul’s ground and the soul’s ground is God’s ground. There the Son is born in the soul. Tauler and the Rhineland mystics developed the idea.