Two Main Themes in Eckhart's Mystical Thinking: "The Birth of the Son in the Soul" and "Breakingthrough to the Godhead"

Philosophy and Culture 24 (3):206-215 (1997)
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Yike Ha God mystical idea is to use a combination of "the birth of the Son in the soul" and "break into the Godhead" as the theme to speak out. "Birth" is the soul and the second Son of God has a combination of self-evident, is a traditional Christian Doctrine of the Faith; "breakthrough" is the soul of the root layer and the layer between the Schengen combination of silent-evident, is the Ike Hamilton Lease thinking characteristics. This article will explain these two themes and try to use analogies, and dialectical way of thinking to return to three kinds of integration. Of Aike Ha, the analogy also pointed out that the transcendence of God, and people were forced to take nothing by "birth", and "breakthrough" to return to God - the root of their existence. Dialectical thinking in the "birth" of people lost in the party said the great love, "breakthrough" that the love of the extreme party can achieve a "forgotten words" and "why" of the natural realm, the two complement each other. Finally, the "breakthrough" is a return, because the "breakthrough" into the Godhead, there is one of the deepest roots. The gist of Eckhart's mystical unity of God and Man lies in his ideas of the "The Birth of the Son in the Soul" and "Breakingthrough to the Godhead". "Birth has limitation" and expresses the effable union of the soul with God; it is a traditional Christian belief. Another of the unique notions in Eckhart's mysticism is "Breakingthrough" where the union is ineffable. This article would like to employ analogy, dialectic and return in examining these two notions. Analogy is one of Eckhart's methods which descibes God's transcendence, and man, by necessity, is compelled by his own nothingness to return to "God," the source of his existence. Dialectic is employed to reveal God's immense love and the "breakingthrough" to this ultimate love leads to a certain state of the soul where "speechlessness" and "aimlessness" interplay. Finally, "breakingthrough" is a kind of return, because "breakingthrough" allows one to enter into the Godhead, the most profound source of human existence

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