“If the mystical experience is a personal working out of the content
of the common faith, theology is an expression, for the profit of all,
of that which can be experienced by everyone. Outside the truth kept by
the whole Church personal experience would be deprived of all
certainty, of all objectivity. It would be a mingling of truth and
falsehood, of reality and of illusion: ‘mysticism’ in the bad sense of
the word. On the other hand, the teaching of the Church would have no
hold on souls if it did not in some degree express an inner experience
of truth, granted in different measure to each one of the faithful.
There is, therefore, no Christian mysticism without theology; but, above
all, there is no theology without mysticism.”
– Vladimir Lossky
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