German Theology

☞ To the 27th. How a person, before their death, cannot reach the point where they become outwardly impassive original: "unleidēlich"; meaning unable to feel pain or suffering and immovable.

¶ To the 28th. In what manner one may go beyond ways, order, laws, commandments, and the like.

☞ To the 29th. How one should not cast off the life of Christ, but should rather pursue it and abide in it until death.

¶ To the 30th. How God is a true, simple good, a light, understanding, and all virtue; and how one should hold the highest, best good most dear.

☞ To the 31st. How in a divinized person original: "vergotten menschen"; a central term in German mysticism referring to a person transformed by union with God, often called "theosis" love is pure and unmixed, and this same love wishes well and desires the very best for all creatures.

¶ To the 32nd. If a person is to come to the Best, they must abandon their own will. And whoever helps a person toward their own will helps them toward the very worst.

☞ To the 33rd. How in a divinized person there is true, fundamental, essential humility and spiritual poverty original: "gaistlich armüt"; a state of inner emptiness and detachment from worldly desires, famously referenced in the Beatitudes.

¶ To the 34th. How nothing else is against God except sin; and what sin is.

☞ To the 35th. How in God, as He is God, there can be no sadness, sorrow, displeasure, and the like; yet these are present in a divinized person.

¶ To the 36th. How one should take the life of Christ upon oneself out of love, and not for the sake of reward, and should never lay it aside or cast it off.

☞ To the 37th. How God desires to have order, manner, measure, and the like within His creatures original: "creaturen"; refers to all created things, including humans, animals, and the physical world, for He cannot have these without the creature. And concerning four types of people who deal with and handle this order, these laws, and these manners.

¶ To the 38th. A good distinction regarding the false light and its own referring to the "false light" of intellectual pride or self-centered reason compared to divine revelation.

☞ To the 39th. How someone is called and truly is a divinized person who is shone through with divine light and burns with eternal divine love; and how light and knowledge are of no use without love.