---
title: "Sermons, Collations and Tractates"
author: "Meister Eckhart"
translator: "C. de B. Evans"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Mystics"
section: 86 of 132
url: https://scriptura.si/works/eckhart-sermons-evans/86/
cite: "Meister Eckhart, tr. C. de B. Evans, Sermons, Collations and Tractates, section 86. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/eckhart-sermons-evans/86/"
---

# Sermons, Collations and Tractates

*Meister Eckhart, tr. C. de B. Evans*

A hundred and four sermons, the tractates and the Sayings, in Evans's 1924 English of Pfeiffer's German.

## 86. Sermon 86 · Detachment Has Four Steps

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/eckhart-sermons-evans/86/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/eckhart-sermons-evans/86/#p-N

[¶0] Detachment has four steps. The first breaks in and makes away with all a man’s })crishable things. The second one deprives him of them altogether. The third not only takes them but makes them all forgotten as though they had not been, and all about them. The fourth degree is right in (k)d and is God himself. When we get to this stage the King is desirous of our beauty.