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Re: Theos-World Meister Eckhart on "God"

Nov 17, 2008 03:21 AM
by christinaleestemaker


Martin, how can Karma be an illusion, for it is a law of nature.

Christina










--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Martin <Mvandertak@...> wrote:
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> Karma is an illusion...
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> --- On Sun, 11/16/08, Morten Nymann Olesen <global-theosophy@...> 
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> From: Morten Nymann Olesen <global-theosophy@...>
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Meister Eckhart on "God"
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 7:26 PM
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> Well, Chuck, you Being a heretic and all, I Would of course expect 
such an answer coming from you. :-)
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> But, one could ask oneself:
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> What is Karma and what is visdom...
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> M. Sufilight
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
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>   From: Drpsionic@aol. com 
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>   To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com 
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>   Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 7:16 PM
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>   Subject: Re: Theos-World Meister Eckhart on "God"
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> I rather like my comment on God when my wife had her stroke and was 
in a 
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>   coma for two weeks, thus causing one of her sisters to comment 
that "God has a 
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>   reason for this." My response was, "If your idiot God knew what 
he was doing 
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> Chuck the Heretic
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> In a message dated 11/16/2008 11:49:06 A.M. Central Standard Time, 
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>   danielhcaldwell@ yahoo.com writes:
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> Here are some of my favorite quotes from
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>   Meister Eckhart (c.1260?c.1328, German mystic):
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> "God is exempt from all things and he is
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>   all things."
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> "He who thinks that he sees God, if he
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>   see aught sees naught of God."
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> "I do not find God outside myself nor
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>   conceive him excepting as my own and in me."
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> "If I were not, God would not be God."
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> "All creatures are pure nothingness. I
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> "The being [of things] is God."
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> "The being and the nature of God are
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>   time and space; the soul's
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>   light is uncreated and cannot be created, it
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>   takes possession of God with no mediation; the
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>   core of the soul and the core of God are one."
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> "Why I pray God to rid me of God is because
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> "God works, the Godhead does no work."
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> [Short biographical sketch of Eckhart at:
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>   (http://www.bartleby .com/65/ec/ Eckhart.html) ]
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> Do the IDEAS given in these quotes by Eckhart
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>   SECRET DOCTRINE and THE MAHATMA LETTERS?
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> If so,how?
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> Daniel
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