St. Paul: ‘I Am Crucified With Christ’

‘God is a Namelessness’, wrote Meister Eckhart [1260-1328 CE], the pioneering Christian Mystic who taught Aristotle at the Sorbonne [and later arraigned by the Vatican for such talk].

The word ‘Nameless’ is a Self-Eating Expression, a variant of which you will find in every mystical-arm of every mainstream religious tradition. [See Post: ‘The Self-Eating Expression’]

And then there is St. Paul, the passionate convert: ‘I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me.‘ [Gal 2:20; Paul’s letters preceded the Gospels.]

‘I live; yet not I’ is a feeling arrived at routinely by anyone in later stages of Meditation Practice. But there is much further to go.

If you don’t seek refuge in the ‘Nameless’, you will likely stop-short and found a new religion. No one was as spectacularly successful as St. Paul, who reached back into his immediate ethnic and regional roots to locate the divine connect in a manger in Bethlehem. More than half the world today celebrates his explanation.