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Subject: Was Paul a mystic?
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Date: Tue, 10-Mar-87 22:31:10 EST
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	I believe the 'mysticism' of Paul is essentially
the same as that of other 'mystics' of Christian tradition,
however strange this may seem to us moderns:

	"No psychologist, for example ('among today's
more sophisticated experts') would be likely to discern
-- or admit it, if he did -- an inner illumination or
a divine inspiration in Inigo (Ignatius of Loyola). He
would not understand reality as Inigo regarded reality.
The whole idea of the uncreated light of the Holy Spirit
promised by Christ to his followers -- a central idea
that animated Inigo -- would be unacceptable as an
outmoded superstition."

	From a recent 1987 book, _Jesuits_: The Society
of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church_,
by Malachi Martin, well-known Vatican expert and Catholic
writer. The context of the excerpt is criticism of the
religious motivations of original versus modern Jesuit 
society.