…goes back to German Mysticism in the 14th century, that is to say, it goes back to people like meister Eckhart and Tauler, Angelus Silesius, the brothers of the free spirit, the anabaptists. The anabaptists were people who said that all living beings are…

…of nature as exemplified, say by Goethe. But there started out in Germany a movement that included people like Eckhart, Tauler, Reisbruch, the brothers of the free spirit, angelus Silesius, all these people writing from a mystical point of view and…

…all these people writing from a mystical point of view and they were very heavily persecuted. Some got by reisbruch got by, Tauler Barely got by but Eckhart was condemned, and all for the reason that they experienced oneness or identity with god. Eckhart…