Luce oscura e inestimabile nulla: su un sermone di Meister Eckhart

The analysis of Meister Eckhart’s sermon surrexit autem saulus de terra apertisque oculis nihil videbat examines three main issues: a) the relationship between God’s being and creation’s nothingness; b) the mystic complementarity between eros and agape that the loving soul tries to embody, with the purpose of reaching the Bridegroom and loving Him with all his being; c) detachment (abgeschiedenheit) as the way to find the depths of the heart where God and man find their unity. The first subject describes Eckhart’s ontology, based on the one hand on the difficult analogy between the being of God flowing in creatures and conferring the divine essence upon them, and on the other the apparent nothingness of creation that hides a glorious dignity. The second subject tries to explain, through the significant word minne, the dual breath, composed of eros and agape, inspired in the human heart by the desire for God. Eckhart depicts an itinerary beginning with the despair of the soul and ending with the discovery that God and Love are one and the same. Finally, to realise mystic union through the detachment, man must know himself to the depth of his soul. This aim leads him to understand that it is rejecting the consideration of himself as property that he can increase his personality and he can become God.