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Mysticism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠introverted thinking evaporated into a representation of the irrepresentable — as unfruitful as thinking that never leaves the facts.

Mysticism (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a sound instinct for turning even erotic feeling into a relationship between God and his people — so the Song of Songs became Christ and his Church.

Mysticism (n.) innate ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in all better men is longing for the mother — the nostalgia to wed oneself with the abyss and blot out memory in its embrace.

Mysticism (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠become a lodging for every unclean spirit — yet there is nothing mystical about a child's identity with its parents, any more than about the metabolism mother and embryo share.

Mysticism (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a label usually covers ignorance: after thirty years of study Jung held that alchemists and Eastern philosophies describe real experiences, and look "mystic" chiefly because we do not know the psyche.