Word: eckhart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Markingsteems with quotations from the Bible (principally from Psalms) and from noted mystics like Meister Eckhart. The heavy use of such material raises the question of whether Hammarskjold's mysticism was acquired through first-hand experience or not. But the question is unanswerable. Only someone like Eckhart could determine the genuineness of Hammarskjold's inspiration; the rest of us can merely view this unsuspected facet of his character with surprise-and perhaps admiration...
...Vienna University. Buber was an active Zionist, and for several years he worked closely with Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. But at the same time he was deeply influenced by Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and some of his first writings were on the German Christian mystics Jakob Boehme, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa...