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"There is in the soul a power that affects neither time nor flesh it flows from the spirit and remains in the spirit, it is completely spiritual. In this power, God grows and flourishes absolutely in all the joy and honour that He is in Himself. It is such a delight for the heart, a joy so ineffably great that no-one is capable of fully expressing it. For the eternal Father ceaselessly engenders his eternal Son in this power, in such a way that this power participates in the birth of the Father's Son and in itself, since it is the same Son in this same power of the Father" (Sermon 2). An indispensible volume for those who wish to understand the German mystics: the principle texts by Meister Eckhart, John Tauler and Henry Suso are grouped together here for the first time since the corpus was published in one single volume. In this edition, it is enriched by explanatory introductions, a substantial presentation of each author as well as bibliographical indications. The selection of texts produces a rigorous restoration of the features and characteristics of German mysticism. "Why did God become man — he who was the highest and most sublime? —, I would say: so that God might be born in the soul and that the soul might be born in God. It was for this reason that all the Scriptures were written it was for this reason that God created the world." (Sermon 38).