Re: Theos-World Meister Eckhart on "God"
Nov 17, 2008 03:21 AM
by christinaleestemaker
Martin, how can Karma be an illusion, for it is a law of nature.
Christina
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Martin <Mvandertak@...> wrote:
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> Karma is an illusion...
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> --- On Sun, 11/16/08, Morten Nymann Olesen <global-theosophy@...>
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> From: Morten Nymann Olesen <global-theosophy@...>
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Meister Eckhart on "God"
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 7:26 PM
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> Well, Chuck, you Being a heretic and all, I Would of course expect
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> But, one could ask oneself:
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> M. Sufilight
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Drpsionic@aol. com
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> To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
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> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 7:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: Theos-World Meister Eckhart on "God"
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> I rather like my comment on God when my wife had her stroke and was
in a
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> coma for two weeks, thus causing one of her sisters to comment
that "God has a
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> Chuck the Heretic
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> In a message dated 11/16/2008 11:49:06 A.M. Central Standard Time,
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> danielhcaldwell@ yahoo.com writes:
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> Here are some of my favorite quotes from
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> Meister Eckhart (c.1260?c.1328, German mystic):
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> "God is exempt from all things and he is
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> "He who thinks that he sees God, if he
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> "I do not find God outside myself nor
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> "If I were not, God would not be God."
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> "All creatures are pure nothingness. I
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> "The being [of things] is God."
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> core of the soul and the core of God are one."
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> "Why I pray God to rid me of God is because
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> "God works, the Godhead does no work."
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> [Short biographical sketch of Eckhart at:
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> (http://www.bartleby .com/65/ec/ Eckhart.html) ]
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> Do the IDEAS given in these quotes by Eckhart
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> SECRET DOCTRINE and THE MAHATMA LETTERS?
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> If so,how?
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> Daniel
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