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Meister Eckhart selected writings – edited and translated by Oliver Davies

A piece of silver or gold is pure and yet, if we wish to make a container from it for the king to drink from, then we heat it far more than we normally do.  Thus it is written of the apostles that they rejoiced to be found worthy to suffer ignominy for God’s sake…………

Origen has a metaphor when he says that the image of God, God’s Son, is in the ground of the soul like a spring of living water.  But when someone throws earth upon it, that is earthly desire, then it becomes choked and blocked so that we no longer see it or know that it is there.  And yet it still remains active and living in itself, and if we remove the earth with which it has been covered, then it appears again and we can see it………………….

Even pagan masters, such as Cicero and Seneca speak of the nobility of the inner man, that is the spirit, saying that the seed of God is in us… but as the great master Origen says; since it is God himself who has engendered this seed, sowing and implanting it, it can never be destroyed or extinguished in itself, even if it is overgrown and hidden.  It glows and gleams, shines and burns and always seeks God

From Sermon 15 - And our Lord says [14:6] no one comes to the Father except through the Son