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Meister Eckhart: S6: The Temple of God

This is a reading of the mystic Meister Eckhart's Sermon 6. God shall rule with authority in the Temple which is man’s soul. Man’s soul resembles God more than any other created thing. God wants to clear the Temple so that he can reside there alone. Those who do good works or acts of piety in order that God may repay them in some way are like the merchants who occupied the temple in Jerusalem in Matthew 21:12. They seek to barter with the Lord. They may exhaust themselves with activity, but they do so for themselves and not purely for God’s sake. “When God enters the Temple, He drives out ignorance, which is darkness, and reveals Himself in light and in truth. The merchants must go when truth is revealed, for truth needs no merchandising.” A man who is at one with God is “perfectly free in all his deeds, he does them for love, without “why?” solely to glorify God ....” Do all of your works solely for God’s glory. If you do, you will be truly emplyt, free and unhindered just as Jesus Christ is. Work that is attached to other things does not attain the highest truth. When the Temple is free, it “glistens with beauty, shining out bright and fair above the whole of God’s creation, and through all God’s creation, so that none can equal its brilliance but the uncreated God alone.” There is nothing else like this Temple but God himself. When the soul dares to become nothing, she emerges into the unmixed light, she falls into her Nothingness and in that Nothingness …” she cannot return to herself. God “upholds her Nothingness and preserves her in His Something.” God comes to the rescue. Jesus will only speak in the soul if he is all alone. When he does, he says what he is – a Word of the Father – and so all the divine nature, all that God is is spoken in the soul (the Father speaks the Word and Jesus speaks in the soul). When this happens, first the “spirit waxes mighty in everything it undertakes, so that it becomes equal and mighty in all virtues and in perfect purity, so that neither joy nor sorrow, nor anything God has created in time, can destroy that man, but he stands mightily there as if with divine power, in face of which all things are puny and futile.” Second, “ Jesus reveals himself in infinite wisdom ….” “When this Wisdom is united with the soul, all doubt, all error, and all darkness are entirely removed; she is set in a bright pure light which is God Himself ….” With this Wisdom, the soul knows God and herself. Infinite sweetness and richness wells up and overflows from the Holy Ghost in the soul and back to her primal source. This man is obedient and at peace in the service of God forever. ----- Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.