Capitolo 77
Mysticism is the name given to the belief in direct communion, intuitive
with God. Every true religion has mystical elements for every true religion,
taken that men can common with God, soul with soul. In the Psalms, God
it is the Rock of the heart, the Portion of the cup, the Shepherd and
Turns on, the Fountain of the Life, a Joy that exceeds. All this is, in a sense,
Language of _mystical_. But mysticism has many dangers. It is proper for
confuses vague sentimentalism and equal hysteria with communion with God. A
the further defect of mysticism is that, in its medieval forms, he/she minded to
the multiplication of intermediary beings or angels that it created
to provide the means for that communion with God that, in theory, the
affirmed mystics was directed. Finally, from the being a deep-sat,
I wait emotional of religion, mysticism degenerated in intellectual
has a good time, a play with words and a making games of dexterity with symbols.
Jewish mysticism passed through all these stages. Kabbala--as mysticism
you/he/she had called--it really intends "Tradition", and the name tries that the
theory had back far its roots of past. You/he/she has been said as soon as that
there is mysticism in the Psalms. There is therefore in the idea of
inspiration, the prophet is receiving a communication directed by God with whom
he spoke face to face. After the prophetic age, Jewish mysticism
been visualized in personal and intense religiousness, as in love
for Apocalyptic, or he/she dreams, literature in which it was able the sleeper, as
Daniel, feels him you/he/she wound to remain in the breast of God.
All the more first literary forms of mysticism or the theosophy, did
small impression comparatively on Jewish writers. But to the beginning
of the thirteenth century a great development took place in the "secret"
science of the Kabbala. The a lot of period that produced the rationalism
of Maimonides birth gave to the sentimentalism of the Kabbala. The Kabbala
it was a protest against too much the intellectualism and the rigidity in for before
religion. It religion of reclaimed for the heart. A number of writers more