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Eckhart was probably born around 1260 in the village of Tambach, near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia, [10] perhaps between 1250 and 1260. [11] It was previously asserted that he was born to a noble family of landowners, but this originated in a misinterpretation of the archives of the period. [12]
Fragment of Meister Eckhart's remarks on the Ground of the Soul (Sermon 5b) in a contemporary manuscript; Göttingen, University of Göttingen, Diplomatischer Apparat 10 E IX Nr. 18 The concept of the Ground of the Soul ( German : Seelengrund ) is a term of late medieval philosophy and spirituality that also appears in early modern spiritual ...
Book cover Title page of the book. The Book of Divine Consolation (German: Buch der göttlichen Tröstung) is a book by the German scholar and mystic Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim), that dates back to somewhere between 1305 and 1326.
Theologians like Meister Eckhart and John of the Cross exemplify some aspects of or tendencies towards the apophatic tradition in the West. The medieval work, The Cloud of Unknowing and John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul are particularly well known.
The church and the friary were the place of work of the most important German mystic, Meister Eckhart, who was probably admitted to the friary as a novice in 1274 at the age of about 14, was later prior of the Erfurt friary and in 1303–1311 provincial with the Erfurt office of the order's province Saxonia.
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The Sister Catherine Treatise is often cited, along with Marguerite Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls, as one of the representative literary expressions of the Heresy of the Free Spirit, which held that a divine union with God was possible to people in this life and, more controversially, independently of the ministrations of the Church.