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The Endless Fall of the Infallible See
March 27, 1329 : 'In agro dominico'
The papal bull condemning Meister Eckhart
URL: https://www.ellopos.net/theology/papal/default.asp
[ Translated by Bernard McGinn, @ E. Colledge & B. McGinn, Meister Eckhart - The essential sermons, commentaries, treatises and defense, NY 1981, pp. 77-81. © 1981 by The Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle in the State of New York. Here published with introduction and notes by Ellopos ]
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The twentieth article. That the good man is the Only-Begotten Son of God.
The twenty-first article. The noble man is that Only-Begotten Son of God whom the Father generates from all eternity.
The twenty-second article. The Father gives birth to me his Son and the same Son. Everything that God performs is one; therefore he gives me, his Son, birth without any distinction.
The twenty-third article. God is one in all ways and according to every respect so that he cannot find any multiplicity in himself either in intellect or in reality. Anyone who beholds the number two or who beholds distinction does not behold God, for God is one, outside and beyond number, and is not counted with anything. There follows: Νo distinction can exist or be understood in God himself.
The twenty-fourth article. Every distinction is foreign to God, both in nature and in Persons. The proof is that the nature itself is one and this one thing, and each Person is one and that same one thing that the nature is.
The twenty-fifth article. When it says, "Simon, do you love me more than these men?" (Jn. 21:15 sqq), it means, that is, more than these others - and indeed well, but not perfectly. Ιn the case of what is more and less there is an order and a degree, but there is no order and degree in the One. Therefore, whoever loves God more than his neighbor, loves well, but not yet perfectly.
