Abstract
La mistica, come esperienza dello spirito, è conoscenza dell’essenza dell’uomo, ben più profonda delle psicologie contemporanee. È attività eminentemente razionale, la stessa della filosofia: entrambe sono infatti fondate sul distacco, il platonico esercizio di morte, che conduce alla scoperta del fondo dell’anima, ovvero allo spirito. Il carattere religioso della mistica, ma anche della filosofia, sta nella fede, che non è credenza, ma movimento verso l’assoluto, e perciò rimozione di ogni relativo, ivi compreso quello religioso. La mistica porta a superare l’alterità del divino, così un sottile confine la separa da quell’ ateismo definito appunto “mistico”.
Mysticism, as experience of the spirit, is knowledge of the human essence, much deeper than contemporary psychology. It is a rational activity, like philosophy: in fact both are constituted by detachment - the platonic “exercise to death” - which leads to the discovery of the “ground of the soul”, or spirit. The religious character of mysticism, and of philosophy too, is faith, which is not belief, but movement towards the Absolute, and removal of every non-absolute knowledge. Mysticism leads to overcome the alterity of God; therefore, there is a thin boundary between it and that form of atheism, which is called “mystical atheism”.
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