Any one who has read the discourses of Meister eckhart, the founder of the school of German mystics, will be struck by the frequent and close resemblances, not of thought only, but of expression and illustration, which exist between him and Dante.
"Dante: His Times and His Work"
Arthur John Butler
So, too, both Dante and eckhart quote St. John i.
"Dante: His Times and His Work"
Arthur John Butler
103, 104, of the redeemed soul having no more need to repent of its sins, expressed in almost similar words by eckhart, it is hardly possible to believe that it occurred to both independently.
"Dante: His Times and His Work"
Arthur John Butler
