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Theodore SaboExtraordinary Lecturer, North-West University, South Africa
Series: Historical Figures
BISAC: HIS014000; REL047000; REL108020
DOI: 10.52305/OFVL9913
The Mind Has Mountains traces the history of Germanic mysticism from the nun Hildegard von Bingen to the founding of psychoanalysis. Its focal points are Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, and Idealist philosophy. It takes its readers down what Hopkins called “cliffs of fall, frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed”: the nothingness of Eckhart’s God beyond God, Boehme’s Ungrund, and the spirit of the depths that Carl Jung termed the collective unconscious. Characters who traverse its pages include heretic nuns, laywomen living as nuns, a priest whose listeners collapsed to the ground on hearing one of his sermons, the author of a medieval guide to Christlikeness, a cartographer of heaven and hell, and an apostate Theosophist. These spiritual guides are not so much vestiges of a prescientific era as exponents of the knowledge of God that comes through the embrace of unitive love, or what the greatest philosopher of German Idealism called the becoming of the divine.
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Preface
Chapter 1. Nuns, Beguines, and Beghards
Chapter 2. Meister Eckhart
Chapter 3. Eckhart’s Disciples
Chapter 4. The Friends of God and the German Theologian
Chapter 5. Devotio Moderna
Chapter 6. The Early Protestant Mystics
Chapter 7. Hegel the Hermetist
Chapter 8. The German Awakening
Chapter 9. The Last Theosophist
Chapter 10. Jung the Mystic
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
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