Eckhart Trinity In God Analysis

Through the ages, the Trinity has been viewed through many lenses and interpreted many different ways, and those ways include those penned down by the mystics Meister Eckhart and John van Ruusbroec. Eckhart and Ruusbroec, actually inspired by Eckhart, both view the Trinity in the unique sense in which to them, God is eternally present to us in a more intimate way, involving us in his processions/missions and his expressions. Both mystics put an emphasis on involving us in the eternal generation/begetting of the Second Person of the Trinity God the Son, and both also put an emphasis on God's process of creation in which he speaks through the Word (God the Son). However, Ruusbroec was considered much more orthodox than Eckhart, and Eckhart for
What makes Eckhart unique in speaking about the Persons of the Trinity is how he particularly writes about God in creating, that once God begot the Son, he also begot the world within the divine processions. He views these two things that he speaks of as "the emanation (procession) of the Persons and the creation of the world, "[God] speaks" them both 'once and for all'" (CP3 25). Scholar Bernard McGinn also comments on the connection between the processions and creation, and states that Eckhart "found a parabolical message that illuminated the inner relation between the two modes of production," that for Eckhart the utterance of the Word to him meant that "two things are simultaneously heard[:] the emanation of the divine Persons in the Trinity and the creation of the whole universe" (CP3 Appendix
As McGinn explains, for Eckhart, "just as the Word exists as Logos, Idea, and Image in the mind of the Father who is his Principle, so too that Logos serves as the exemplary cause by which God creates all that he creates" (CP3 Appendix 5). This reminds the reader of the orthodox teaching of the Son/Word being generated by the Father in his image of himself, and through the Word, the Father creates creations through an expression of love -- love being what God is inspired by to create. As Eckhart puts it in Sermon 53, he explains that the "Father speaks the Son always, in unity, and pours out him all created things" (CP3 27), also tying in the idea that the Son being poured out is the Son being generated within us as we are also generated as Eckhart