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Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series

ISSN 0957-042X

1 paper in the library · publishing 1989

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‘Where Two are to Become One’: Mysticism and Monism

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series March 1, 1989 Grace Jantzen

(1) If you would know God, you must not merely belikethe Son, you mustbethe Son yourself.With these words Meister Eckhart encapsulates the aim of Christian mysticism as he understood it: to know God, and to know God in such a way that the knower is not merelylikeChrist but actuallybecomesChrist, taken into the Trinity itself. Eckhart speaks frequently of this in his sermons.

DOI: 10.1017/s0957042x00011305