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Now we're getting to the heart of the matter. One fun thing about mysticism is that, while spending quality time with 'God', those mystics may reach conclusions concerning the nature of both the real and divine which, to put it mildly, aren't necessarily consistent with Church doctrine. A major problem with such thoughts is that they occur at a very high and ethereal level of thought, surrounded by a context of elusive notions and abstractions. Even in the Middle Ages, within their respective context, a well-educated Church leader might have been perfectly able to follow them. However, those Church leaders also knew that among the uneducated rabble no such thing as a sense of context was to be expected, and that historically it was most likely going to end in large-scale murdering of Jews and priests. It was for that reason why, while the mystics of those days were generally left alone, once they started to publish their ideas they were almost immediately shipped off to the pyre.

These exact words come from an article about 16th/17th century Christian mystic Jacob Boehme, 'Böhme's Theology of Evil and its Relevance for Psychoanalysis', by Sean McGrath.
www.academia.edu/35709146/B%C3…

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Now we're getting to the heart of the matter. One fun thing about mysticism is that, while spending quality time with 'God', those mystics may reach conclusions concerning the nature of both the real and divine which, to put it mildly, aren't necessarily consistent with Church doctrine. A major problem with such thoughts is that they occur at a very high and ethereal level of thought, surrounded by a context of elusive notions and abstractions. Even in the Middle Ages, within their respective context, a well-educated Church leader might have been perfectly able to follow them. However, those Church leaders also knew that among the uneducated rabble no such thing as a sense of context was to be expected, and that historically it was most likely going to end in large-scale murdering of Jews and priests. It was for that reason why, while the mystics of those days were generally left alone, once they started to publish their ideas they were almost immediately shipped off to the pyre.

These exact words come from an article about 16th/17th century Christian mystic Jacob Boehme, 'Böhme's Theology of Evil and its Relevance for Psychoanalysis', by Sean McGrath.
www.academia.edu/35709146/B%C3…