So what do you think of when you hear “mysticism”?
In my growing-up culture it was a neutral word. But when I was helping a couple put together a wedding, the groom didn’t like where Cranmer refers to “the mystical union” between Christ and the Church. I began to think that for some people the word had a dark side.
When you inject a ‘mysticism’ into something that intrinsically lacks reality, that is dark, as it promotes a lie, like all the apparitions that people celebrate.
They “see” them because they are predisposed to believing a lie.