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Pages tagged with mysticism.

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• Franz Xaver von Baader

  Bavarian Catholic philosopher and theologian (1765–1841), the Munich collaborator and credited precursor of Schelling in the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). Schelling explicitly credits Baader with th…

• Jakob Böhme

  German theosophist (1575–1624), shoemaker by trade, born in Alt Seidenberg (Görlitz, Saxony). Author of the Aurora (1612), De signatura rerum, Mysterium Magnum, Sex puncta theosophica, and the Mysterium Pansophicum (1620), among other theo…

• John of the Cross

  Spanish Carmelite friar, mystical theologian, and poet (1542–1591). Canonized 1726; named Doctor of the Church 1926. Co-reformer of the Carmelite order with Teresa of Ávila. Major works: The Ascent of Mount Carmel (Subida del Monte Carmelo…

• Meister Eckhart

  German Dominican theologian and mystic (c. 1260 – c. 1328), one of the cardinal voices of medieval Rhineland mysticism. Currently appears in the wiki as the proof-text anchor for love-as-ungrounded-primary-category in Simmel's love-fragmen…

• Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith F. W. J. Schelling, 1809

  Author: F. W. J. Schelling · Year: 1809 (Love & Schmidt translation 2006, SUNY Press) · Type: Book (treatise plus appended Supplementary Texts)

• Ungrund (Schelling / Boehme)

  The non-ground — Schelling's most distinctive move in the closing "All-Unity of Love" of the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). The Ungrund is "the absolute considered merely in itself" prior to the dual…