Reading list

Reading Meister Eckhart

The Godhead, the ground of the soul and detachment: a path into the sermons and treatises of Eckhart.

Intermediate. 7 steps

Orientation

Author
Meister Eckhart
His life as friar, preacher and master, and the trial at the end of it.

Text
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons
Meister Eckhart, tr. Claud Field, 1909
A first selection of the German sermons, in an older but readable translation.

Concept
Ground of the soul
Where, for Eckhart, the soul and God are one ground.
Concept
Detachment
The letting-go that makes room for the birth of God in the soul.
Concept
Godhead
The silent desert beyond God as named and known.

Text
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart, tr. Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, 1981
A modern translation from the critical edition, with the Latin works and the defence.

Text
Mysticism East and West
Rudolf Otto, tr. Bertha L. Bracey, Richenda C. Payne, 1932
Rudolf Otto sets Eckhart beside Śaṅkara, the classic comparison.

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