' The soul becomes Divine '...

"Now mark how God unites with things.

He unites with things while yet remaining one in Himself, all things being one in Him.

Therefore Christ says, "You will be transformed into me, but I shall not be transformed into you.

"This is due to God's unchangeableness and His immensity, and the littleness of things.

As to this, the prophet says that all things are to God as a drop in the ocean [Wisdom11:22].

If you were to cast a drop into the ocean, the drop would become the ocean and not the ocean the drop.

Thus it is with the soul:

when she imbibes God she is turned into God,

so that the soul becomes divine but God does not become the soul."



-Meister Eckhart
Sermon Ninety-Four
The Complete Mytical Works of Meister Eckhart
Translated by Maurice O'C Walshe
New York: Herder & Herder Crossroad, 2009, p. 456-457