Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them. -William Butler Yeats
"What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the height of this great argument,
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men."
(John Milton: Paradise Lost)
