The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart by Maurice Walshe

Author:Maurice Walshe [Walshe, Maurice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780824525170
Amazon: 0824525175
Published: 2013-03-21T21:23:38+00:00

S E RMON FIFTY-SEVEN

(Pf 96, Q 1 2, QT 1 3 )

QUI AUDIT M E NON CONFUNDETUR

(Sirach 24 : 30)

The text that I have quoted in Latin is declared by the eternal wisdom of the Father and it says, “Whoever hears me is not ashamed” - if he is ashamed of anything, he is ashamed of being ashamed. ” He that works in me does not sin. He that reveals me and shines me forth shall have eternal life.” Of these three sayings which I have quoted, each would be sufficient for a sermon. I will speak first of the words of the Eternal Wisdom: “Whoever hears me is not ashamed. ” Whoever would hear the eternal wisdom of the Father, he must be within, and at home, and must be one: then he can hear the eternal wisdom of the Father.

There are three things that prevent us from hearing the eternal Word. The first is corporeality, the second is multiplicity, the third is temporality. If a man had transcended these three things, he would dwell in eternity, he would dwell in the spirit, he would dwell in unity and in the desert - and there he would hear the eternal Word. Now our Lord says, “No one hears my word or my teaching unless he has abandoned self.’ 1 For to hear the Word of God demands absolute selfsurrender. The hearer is the same as the heard in the eternal Word. All that the eternal Father teaches, is His being and His nature and His entire Godhead, which He divulges to us altogether in His Son and teaches us that we are that same Son. A man who had gone out of self so far that he was the only-begotten Son would own all that the only-begotten Son owns. Whatever God performs and whatever He teaches, all that He performs and teaches in His only-begotten Son.

God performs all His works that we may become the only-begotten Son. When God sees that we are the only-begotten Son, He is in such 295

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haste to get to us and hurries so much as if His divine being would be shattered and destroyed in itself, that He may reveal to us the abysm of His Godhead and the plenitude of His being and His nature: God then hastens to make it our own just as it is His own. Here God has delight and joy in abundance. That man stands in God’s ken and in God’s love, and becomes none other than what God is Himsel£.2

If you love yourself, you love all men as yourself. As long as you love a single man less than yourself,3 you have never truly learned to love yourself - unless you love all men as yourself, all men in one man, that man being God and man. It is well with that man who loves himself and all men as himself, with him it is very well. Now some people say, ‘I love my friend, who is good to me, better than any other man.

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