Meister Eckhart: S2: God Must Act and the Soul Must Suffer

Meister Eckhart's S2: God Must Act and the Soul Must Suffer.

In the ground of the soul is its essence or spark where there is no activity, but a silent desert devoid of all images. This is where God speaks his Word.

When God streams into the soul, his light overflows and radiates in one’s external body and the individual receives wisdom and understanding. However, light cannot coexist with darkness. Therefore, no sinner can receive this light.

Through the soul’s unknowing of everything but God (the soul’s still, silent passivity), it may receive God. God can boundlessly give (activity) in all ways; but, the soul can boundlessly receive (passivity) in a particular way–through suffering.

Each gift of suffering prepares the soul for a yet greater gift of suffering. In this way the soul (the receiver) is commensurate with God (the giver); both are boundless.

Unknowing is the soul’s chief perfection; suffering is the soul’s highest activity. God must act and the soul must suffer.
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