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Preface

that is just, — 421, 24. and is a creature and made — 421, 26. and of the Father God — 424, 13. with you and your truth — 424, 14. that he who is too greedy, whom [nothing else] — 424, 15. satisfies. How — 425, 13. unequally — 425, 21. have. Whether — 425, 33. be, in — 426, 1. is, that he does not know himself — know, and not know nor even wish to know anything but God’s will and thus know God as God knows Himself. — 426, 8. creature in the single image, — and where God [knows] Himself — 426, 10. knows things — He teaches us — 426, 27. should be mine — 426, 34. discomfort just like comfort — 428, 18. is of no importance to him — 428, 19. because losing is a creaturely thing — 428, 24. that comfort in — 428, 26. alone — 429, 33. you have comfort — 430, 9. not as two — 430, 37. bare — 430, 40. not as in an image — 431, 1. says: thus — 431, 14. to his — 431, 33. as far — 431, 39. the likenesses — 432, 7. alteration — 432, 21. A paragraph after "love" — 432, 36. through virtues — 433, 23. has, that God might take everything from the person who becomes angry, — 434, 3. it — 434, 4. creature, that it [may] God — 434, 5. may and God’s — 434, 17. will, from which everything — 434, 18. to do with — 434, 19. works, that he has now — 434, 23. The work can be hindered and it does not fall — 435, 20. a day or an hour. — 435, 22. and is made equal — 435, 23. attachment eigenschaft: In Eckhart's thought, this refers to a sense of "possessiveness" or "self-interest" that a person must abandon to reach God.. For — creature toward God, whether — 435, 24. alone, thus — 435, 25. that the outer work, — 436, 1. are children — There is also — 436, 3. one spirit with God — we the Son — 436, 6. truly — 436, 38. of every individual spirit — and truth finds — 437, 18. Paragraph. — 437, 28. would be born of one born. — 437, 31. being of one would be — 437, 32. be nor — 437, 40. All time he has — 438, 2. God loves — 439, 10. lift — 439, 15. the Father, than the Son is or the — 439, 16. than the — 439, 23. seek one in himself — 443, 16. in suffering and in acting original: "lîdenne unde würkenne." Refers to the scholastic distinction between the passive/receptive and active faculties of the soul.. — 443, 30. with me in suffering, my — 444, 8. might suffer willingly and suffer without sorrow. — 444, 18. if also — 444, 24. equally before God — 448, 7. Also one hears — 449, 3. and the third that he — 449, 26. you would not want — 450, 23. too — 457, 2. break'. He said 'consider yourself well'. She said — 459, 36. for no "wherefore" original: "umbe kein warumbe." This is a key Eckhartian phrase meaning to act without a secondary motive or reason, just as God acts., that — 460, 1. his will with God's will — 461, 8. attain — 466, 9. of the divine nature. — 466, 19. received — 472, 18. understand — 472, 40. day. There — 486, 20. Vincentius cf. 398, 40 Refers to Vincent of Beauvais, a 13th-century Dominican scholar often cited for his encyclopedic knowledge. — 492, 38. your — 493, 27. holy desire. In — 493, 29. In the nothing — 493, 30. everything [is] something — 494, 13. of the spirit. Where it the — 494, 22. The precedence vorganc: refers to the "procession" or the way in which creatures flow out from God into existence. be condemned in itself — 494, 28. The third poverty of spirit is, wherein — 494, 29. liveliness — 494, 32. In this she is spiritually poor — 495, 16. vanished — 499, 17. himself as being — 502, 8. nature was joined with divine nature in one person, that — have. — 502, 30. nothing else than before — 503, 17. Paragraph. — 504, 33. A master