Mystical experience seems to offer the only hope for an ecumenical meeting of the world religions. In general, mystics understand one another very well, even when forms of expression differ. There is an affinity between Parmenides, Plato, Eckhart, Nicholas of Cusa, and John of the Cross, to mention but a few names. Authentic mystical experience preaches the truth, even if the forms of the preaching differ greatly. Mystics place hardly any emphasis on the precise wording of their formulations. Words, after all, can only hint and not reveal; they set the same string vibrating in another and produce the same tone. The other understandings that the one same truth is being declared.
Willigis Jager
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