Meister Eckhart-a Christian Mystic

Meister Eckhart, as he was known, was Eckhart von Hochheim O.P. (c. 1260 – c. 1327) a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born in Thuringia. As tensions between the Franciscans and Eckhart's Dominican Order of Friars Preachers escalated he was tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII, but died before his verdict was received. He was remembered for his work with lay groups such as the Friends of God.

Meister Eckhart was one of the most influential 14th c. Christian Neoplatonists, and a faithful Thomist (The philosophical school that arose as a legacy of St. Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic priest).  Eckhart wrote on metaphysics and spiritual psychology, used mythic imagery modeled after legends and mythology, and he preached the metaphorical content of the gospels.

“A day, whether six or seven ago, or more that six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why?
   Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.” 


"There is nothing so much like God 
in all the universe as silence". 

Read Meister Eckhart’s Sermons: Meister Eckhart Sermons

I AM

The Yin Yang