Thursday, June 29, 2006

Johannes Tauler was born in Strasbourg, Germany, around the year 1300CE. He was a humble man with a keen mind for spiritual guidance. Johannes Tauler was a mystic.

He emphasized Abgeschiedenheit, or detachment from worldly things, and the way to do this was through love of higher self - our 'divine nature' - and contemplation on 'holy creation', or the beauty of the world. Earth, Tauler taught, was the place of our Seelengrund, the 'soul's ground', which is the inner silence found in meditation.

Many of misconstued his message regarding Abgeschiedenheit, when it is very simple to understand. Tauler, as a Lebmeister, or 'living master', taught that the world is to be cherished for all humans are of the world; but like a child who leaves a parent, humans - when they come of 'age', self-realized - should leave the mother for the 'father', or the higher self.

".. if the holy Church were to refuse us the holy Sacrament externally, we must submit; but nobody can deprive us the privilege of taking it spiritually."

In this, Tauler relates that regardless of what the Church has to offer, there is a greater nectar within.

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