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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (20)
But the Soul was breathed into Man, merely out of the original Birth of the Father by the moving Spirit, (understand, the Holy Ghost which goes forth from the Father out of the Light of the Father:) Which original Birth is before the Light of Life, which is in the four Anguishes, out of which the Light of God is kindled, wherein is the Original of the Name of God; and therefore the Soul is God's own Essence or Substance.
Meister Eckhart - Sermons
Sermon III: The Angel's Greeting (5)
God created the soul after the image of His highest perfection. He issued forth from the treasure-house of the everlasting Fatherhood in which He had...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (34)
It is just such a birth as is in man; the body is even the father of the soul, for the soul is generated out of the power of the body, and when the...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (36)
This light I call, in the human birth or geniture, the animated or soulish birth— ["Understand, the image which budded forth out of the essences of th...
Tripartite Tractate
The Creation of Material Humanity (5)
It is fitting that we explain about the soul of the first human being, that it is from the spiritual Logos, while the creator thinks that it is his,...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (58)
Now those powers of the Father which stand in the kindling of the light are the holy Father, and the meek Father, and the pure birth or geniture of...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (43)
This moving spirit is the third Person in the birth or geniture of God, and is called God the Holy Ghost.
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (47)
But the animated or soulish spirit generateth itself in the heart, out of or from the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, in that manner as the Son ...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (14)
First, the body is out of all the powers of the Father, and in those powers is the light of God the Son; now the powers of the Father and of the Son,...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (98)
For all the veins, together with the light in thee, as also thy heart and thy brain, and all whatsoever is in thee, make or constitute that spirit; an...