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Meister Eckhart: Session 2

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

CHAPTER

The Birth of the Word in the Soul

This is an Advent sermon on the birth of Christ and Bethlehem. Here in time we are celebrating the eternal birth, which God the Father bore and bears unceasingly in eternity. Because the same birth is now born in time in human nature. So it's not a moment of time. It's our temporal existence through the passage of time from birth to death. The God's born in me, in my passage through time, God's entwined with my temporality as I move through time and passage to death.

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