theologians, who do not know what mysticism is. They associate it with ecstatic trances, with the solitary life of the hermit, with purely negative conceptions of God, with keeping one’s mind perfectly blank for hours on end, with vague reasoning, with pantheism, with a distaste for action and concrete, physical life, forgetting that all these things are the freaks or aberrations of mystical religion and have nothing to do with its essence.
