But, in virtue of Eckhart's doctrine of the chiasmic event of the birth of God in the soul and the rebirth of the soul in God, whatever happens on the side of the soul must also happen on the side of God. God too must divest himself of his divine properties and names, like “his” and “creator” and even “God” itself, stripping the divine being to the nudity and inexistence of the Godhead, in order to release the event of the birth of the Son from the divine abyss, coming into existence in the soul, in the world. God must be stripped of existence in order for the divine inexistence to bear fruit
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