XII

Preface

where he dwells within. — 271, 37. and present to his God and to him — 271, 40. that is free original: "lidic." Meaning unencumbered or detached from. of the angels and of humans and of all creatures. — 272, 1. is a word that is there intended — 272, 12. rationality. There — 272, 26. divine. However — 272, 27. God, but we must — 273, 4. small point were d The letter 'd' refers to a specific manuscript variant or a deletion noted by the editor. — 274, 23. in him d — 275, 10. in them — 275, 11. an angel — 275, 20. soul — 276, 10. that one can love more — 276, 32. the number of bodily things — 276, 34. where God manifests himself within — 277, 13. why evil? — 277, 28. most detached — most forgotten — 278, 14. God, when he so truly — 278, 15. powerfully yours — 278, 40. same; for — 279, 5. But I should love him — 279, 10. distinction, more: in spiritual things, for in love they are equal — 279, 29. live, the being with the things that are being there wesen: used here both as a noun (being/essence) and a verb (to be/to exist). — 280, 16. that you understand — 281, 9. has, that the — 281, 25. my free being and — 281, 32. in the Godhead original: "gotheit." Eckhart distinguishes between "God" as the active Creator and the "Godhead" as the absolute, undifferentiated essence. — 282, 9. as that also [is] nothing — 282, 23. so is he — 282, 24. that he [is] not — 282, 32. so that he knows no thing — 283, 1. that they [are] not — he who wants — 283, 29. our speech — 283, 31. be. That — 283, 32. not his being — 284, 9. I would be nothing, nor all things Refers to Eduard Boehmer's citations, page 69. — 285, 21. Humanity has — 286, 38. there it would become one — 287, 3. than that God bore the only-begotten Son — 287, 13. all one — 287, 14. all one — all one. — 289, 20. do that to him d — 289, 26. or in against — 290, 34. In this word d — 291, 19. the Father finds — 292, 4. became, where the — 292, 17. and that he himself is — 295, 22. that a person knows that — 295, 23. nothing. That he [knows] nothing of himself — anything at all to do of himself — 295, 24. he waited beforehand for one d — grace, that one might know the distinction — 296, 17. grasps — 296, 19. more and less — 305, 36. under none — 306, 14. one. And — 306, 29. and God to the — 307, 23. known, to — 308, 11. from the touch of time — 309, 4. the third master — 310, 40. as God — 312, 8. the same that there — becomes. The eye, where — 312, 14. of one thing over — 315, 6. is, this — 318, 2. so God has created — 318, 4. shrine Boehmer, page 71. — 318, 5. the Father to the Son — 318, 20. but only eternity — 320, 11. for the durations are not — soul, a — Boehmer, page 74. — 320, 31. anything — 321, 8. without change — 321, 11. in God — 322, 12. where it — 322, 23. and they mean — 322, 33. eye. However — 322, 34. yet it has some confidence and takes something from without — 322, 37. every creature touches her. Yet — 323, 10. working, as — 323, 12. The fruit of the — 323, 24. God takes his being, that — 323, 37. thing, and — 323, 38. the highest that God pours — 325, 4. in my soul — image, that is for the sake of two things.

325, 6. in — 325, 11. be. For — 325, 13. fruit, has — of the same image — 325, 40. a proper image — 326, 4. house. Thus — be as many an image — 326, 14. he forms — 326, 20. if he — 326, 23. as those he d — 326, 24. as