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Meister Eckhart - Mystical and Spiritual Writings (14 books)

MEISTER ECKHART (1260-1327/28?), whose original name was Johannes Eckhart, was a
Dominican theologian, philosopher and writer who became one of the greatest
medieval European mystics and whose writings helped build the foundation of the
Western mystical tradition. In the language of the Christian tradition Eckhart
expounded the eternal mysteries in a style that was fresh and original in the best
sense, charting the course of union between the individual soul and God.

The depth and universality of Eckhart's teaching has drawn seekers of truth
Christian and non-Christian alike. His personal path from conventional friar to
professor to lay preacher culminated in a spiritual philosophy that combined the
teachings of an array of pagan and Christian writers, as well as Muslim and Jewish
philosophers. His revolutionary decision to take his approach to the common people
garnered him many enthusiastic followers as well as powerful enemies. His radical
and penetrating insight makes him a natural point of reference for a genuinely
ecumenical understanding.

Eckhart preached a personal, internal path to God at a time when the Church could
not have been more hierarchical and ritualistic. Then and now, Eckhart’s
revolutionary method of direct access to ultimate reality offers a profoundly
subjective approach that is at once intuitive and pragmatic, philosophical yet non-
rational, and, above all, universally accessible.

Despite his distinction and popularity, indeed partly because of it, in the
political and ecclesiastical turbulence of the fourteenth century, the Meister was
accused of heresy, brought before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and tried
as a heretic by Pope John XXII. He seems to have died before a verdict was
received. Following his death and papal censure, supporters quietly kept his
legacy alive through the centuries, albeit underground until the master’s dramatic
rediscovery by modern Protestants and Catholics.

Today he has acquired a status as a great mystic within contemporary popular

spirituality, as well as considerable interest from scholars situating him within
the medieval scholastic and philosophical tradition. Eckhart's fusion of
philosophy and religion with vivid originality and metaphysical passion, and his
theory of a personal path to the divine has intrigued and inspired thinkers as
diverse as Hegel, Heidegger, Thomas Merton, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Paul II, and the
current Dalai Lama.

The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as indicated:

* Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality (Doubleday, 1980). M. Fox,

trans. — PDF
* Complete Mystical Works (Herder & Herder, 2009). M. O'C. Walshe, ed. — PDF*
* Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense (Paulist, 1981). Colledge
& McGinn, eds. — PDF*
* Meditations with Meister Eckhart (Bear & Co., 1983). M. Fox, trans. — PDF
* Meister Eckhart (Hodder & Stoughton, 1992). H. Backhouse, ed. — PDF^
* Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation (Harper & Row, 1984). R.B. Blakney, trans.
— PDF
* Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing (New Seeds, 2012). D. O'Neal, ed. —
ePUB
* Meister Eckhart: Mystic and Philosopher (Indiana, 1978). R. Schürmann, trans. —
PDF
* Meister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher (Paulist Press, 1986). B. McGinn, ed. —
PDF*
* Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets (Hampton Roads, 2019). M. Burrows & J. Sweeney.
— ePUB
* Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart (Hampton Roads, 2017). M. Burrows & J.
Sweeney. — ePUB + PDF
* Meister Eckhart Speaks (Philosophical Library, 1957). E. Strakosch, trans. — PDF^
* Selected Writings (Penguin Classics, 2010). O. Davies, ed. — ePUB
* Sermons and Treatises, Vol. 1 (Element, 1991). M. O'C. Walshe, ed. — PDF

PDF* by @pharmakate
PDF^ by @Mohamed5438

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