Which German word did Meister Eckhart attribute as the distantiation from reality in his mystical writings?
Eckhart’s themes are complex, but appear to revolve around a very personal and intimate experience of the Absolute. Eckhart strongly emphasized the apophatic approach to experiencing God, negating all predicates and names and concepts which might apply to God, leaving behind only a naked, formless ‘One’ above Being and above concepts, even above the ‘Trinity’ itself. From this silent, unmoving, and unchanging entity, which is in Eckhart’s view, neither ‘nothing’ nor ‘being’ but ‘a nothing’ and ‘a something’, both the Holy Trinity and all reality emerge, ‘overflowing’ like water flooding from a bursting spring in the ground. The human mind meets this reality, in its innermost ‘ground’, a place where the human soul or mind meets God devoid of all concepts, images and forms, but in doing so encounters God’s prescence in so powerful a manner the soul fuses into God by a remarkable divinisation which makes the soul so like God all distinction between the soul or the person and God seems to
