The translation of Eckhart's words above tell me that like Jesus, Eckhart was able to teach and reach men at the point of their understanding of the spirit of transcendence. Although the priest could not understand the point at which Eckhart stood [no more than anyone understood the point at which Jesus stood, the reason for his crucifixion], Eckhart understood the point at which the priest stood and could speak to him from this awareness, and of this awareness. As Jesus did not condemn his accusers, instead extending compassion to their core truth of the God of materialism, to lift them up to the higher truth of the Father of spirit, Eckhart, in his communicating with the priest, did likewise. Eckhart's truth as expressed in Sermon 87Bob Michael wrote:When he had finished this speech, the good priest said: "Dear Meister Eckhart, I have said too much and talked too long to you, forgive me. It is time now for me to go home." Meister Eckhart turned around to him, gave him a kiss of peace, and said: "Dear sir, I tell you that for many a year I have enjoyed hearing no discourse as much as this - which I have suddenly had to listen to from you. May God be your everlasting reward! And with divine love and Christian brotherliness, I bid you and exhort you for God's sake - as I may so exhort you - to tell me plainly about your life. For by the grace of God, I plainly see that you have spoken from the core of your life."
(From 'Meister Eckhart' - A Modern Translation by Raymond B. Blakney, 1941)
"In the flame of love - all fear is consumed." (J. Krishnamurti)
allowed him to descend into the man's truth of his idea of Christian love, as he was once equal to that truth, and touch him of this equality. And at the same time, touch him of the seed of the truth of pure spirit, of which the man was not equal.If anyone cannot understand this sermon, he need not worry. For so long as man is not equal to this truth, he cannot understand my words, for this is a naked truth which has come direct from the heart of God.
The highest truth a man can have, and give, is that of his awareness of his invisibility of his conscience of infinity. In doing so, even the circle of the flame of the love that consumes fear is transcended. "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." To be made perfect in love is to love as spirit loves, which is of the conscience of knowing that every form is of equal worth to the Thinker of all forms, even the forms of love and fear. And in the knowing of this truth of the perfect equality of every form, belief in a form called 'love' and a form called 'fear', a form called 'man' and a form called 'woman', begins its journey of "mortality being swallowed up of Life."
To live of one's conscience of "Before Abraham was, I am": what truth can be higher than this?