"Every creature pursues its life with an aim even if it be unknown to it. The human soul also has a destiny: that is, to arrive at a pure knowledge of itself and a consciousness of god. But this soul is "scattered and spread out" in the world of the senses, of space and time. The senses are active in it and weaken – at first – the power of spiritual concentration; the precondition of "inner workings" is, therefore, the withdrawal of all exterior powers, the extinguishing of all images and allegories. But this "inner working" means: to draw heaven to oneself, as Jesus is said to have testified and demanded of the powerful of soul. This attempt by the mystic thus demands the exclusion of the world as idea, in order to become, where possible, conscious, as pure subject, of the metaphysical essence which lives within us.; and since this is not completely possible, the idea of god is created as a new object of this soul in order ultimately to announce the identical value of soul and god. However, this act is only possible under the prerequisite of spiritual freedom from all dogmas, churches and popes. Meister Eckehart, the Dominican priest, does not shy away from joyfully and openly proclaiming this fundamental creed of every truly Aryan nature."