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Meister Eckhart

Historical Figure
Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

German mystic and theologian who emphasized divine immanence and the soul’s union with God through detachment.

Detailed Definition
Eckhart’s mystical language of “birth of God in the soul” and negation inspired poetic expressions of transcendence beyond words, influencing modernist and spiritual poetry seeking the ineffable through paradox and silence.
Example
Example in poetry:
Meister Eckhart, mystic, inspires union with divine: "Meister Eckhart said the soul’s ground is God—birth of the Son in the silent mind"; A contemplative verse: "Let go of self, said Eckhart, to become pure ‘isness’ in the divine"; A paradox: "God is beyond being, said Eckhart; the highest name is Nothing"; A critique: "Too pantheistic, said the Church; Eckhart’s sermons condemned, yet revered"
Additional Notes
Meister Eckhart emphasized divine immanence and the soul’s union with God through detachment; his mystical theology deeply influenced German Romantic poetry and modern spiritual verse, where silence, negation, and “God beyond God” become poetic strategies to express the ineffable, as in Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo.”
Also Known As
Eckhart von Hochheim Johannes Eckhart
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