Mysticism and Reason

Abstract

In this article I intend to connect mysticism and reason, showing that there is a reason of mysticism. It is an analogical logos, an ana-logos, because analogy is the resource used by mystics in order to know and express the mystery. As it is required a comprehension and an explanation, hermeneutics is employed, for interpreting the mystic experience and mystics’ language. But it must be an analogical hermeneutics, in order to befit the conceptualizing instrument used: metaphors, parables and other cognoscitive and expressive resources provided by the rich notion of analogy.