Notes on the Inner Meaning of Conscious Labor, part I

Intellect's object and lodgement is essence; not accident, but pure unmixed Being in itself.

Meister Eckhart, Sermon 3
If I were to rephrase this in other terms, I might say: 
Intellect’s aim and center of gravity is essence; not automatic association, but residence within its own unadulterated nature.
 In any event. As is so often the case, I find myself t…