The whole business of mysticism is receiving actionable knowledge from outside the normal human intellectual inputs.
It requires a faculty missing from humans by default. The very nature of the thing eludes our grasp, but we can discuss it in terms of indications, not descriptions. There is a sense in which you can learn mysticism. You can train your mind to process inputs from a source higher than the intellect, and to discern the difference between that higher input versus lesser impulses that can be mistaken for those inputs. You can learn to trust processing that is above conscious reasoning. Whole civilizations in history considered it the normal way of approaching anything more than the most routine stuff of human existence. There is another sense in which it simply drops on you as a gift, when some higher authority reaches out to you for its own reasons and makes you able to find that link between the mind and those higher processes. The difference between learned and granted is hard to gauge in reality, because the primary social signal among mystics is a warm affection for the truth as a blessing, not as a weapon to keep others in line.
It’s not as if those lacking the mystical insight can’t understand anything, but there will always be that final measure of higher logic missing from their calculations. They have forced themselves into a framework that can’t possibly account for everything. This is part of the assumed background in any discussion of divine law. You could memorize a vast body of precedent and have some means to estimating, but there will always be those cases that defy your grasp. We who have mystic insight remain aware that in our current world setting, the majority will never understand completely. They will typically lack the sense of easy warmth and serenity so painfully obvious to those who are mystics. (Yes, religious pagans can manifest that same warmth.)
The difference is painfully obvious when people write about their expectations for the near term future. Aside from the blind sheeple who don’t distinguish much of anything beyond what their fleshly lusts demand this very moment, there is a rather large portion of humanity well aware that our world system is highly unstable. There has always been various measures and degrees of oppression, but we are in the part of the cycle where there is not much to distract the ogres nor their victims. Most people are frankly worried about sudden drastic changes in their daily lives, and rightly so. There is a very large volume of Internet chatter about the latest shocking abuse, and a distinct sense there is no relief in sight.
Among those making noises about seizing justice with their own hands, only a tiny portion of them would actually do it. If nothing else, the vast majority of them simply aren’t preparing realistically to respond; they have no realistic sense of what is involved. They are most to be pitied, because they have left a trail the oppressors can follow easily. They will be the prime targets of planned crackdowns.
Then there is a huge crowd of folks convinced they can stir up the population to act in some concerted fashion to overthrow the rascals — activists. They earn a different kind of pity. There is half-truth in their ideas, because oppression will be limited by the volume of folks who simply can’t comply with insane demands. What seems to be resistance will actually be systemic failure. The ogres suffer their own brand of unreality. The activists are driven by a very worldly sense of justice, somehow believing justice is part of that indefinable something called objective reality. It’s a very worldly brand of justice, typically woven from varying threads of social mythology. Everyone assumes their own sense of justice is self-evident. What distinguishes them from mystics is the painful sense of panic underlying all their communications, because they imagine entirely too much depends on human hands. Humans tend to see the most gossamer insignificance as the whole of their reality.
Mystics realize most human activity is harmless and pointless on the cosmic scale. We see from outside the human perspective. In reality, very little depends on any human, nor really all humanity. We see the course of divine justice as cosmic reality, while human activity just a lot of little piffles bouncing off of it. About the only thing we as humans can do is cooperate or not. We can ride along with where cosmic justice is surely going, or we can struggle blindly and get bitten when charging into injustice. If you can’t see it, you can’t possibly figure it out. Human tools are not competent for the question.
God has warned Americans that He will not restrain the evil that Americans have set loose. Having drifted so firmly into the path of injustice, the course has been set and must run itself out. When some filthy psychopath proposes and acts on some smaller injustice easily recognized, God will not allow anyone to stop them. That’s a generality; there will be some give and take in the specifics, but the larger trend remains unchanged. When this thing has run its course, there will hardly be any sense of closure for those on the ground who can’t see the cosmic reality. Their intellect will pick over those who seemed to get away with it, the things never quite put back in place, their rational sense of order remaining disturbed. They’ll confuse poetic justice with the higher reality and won’t understand.
Whatever they do in the attempt to recover will vary widely in effectiveness. Most of it will be pointless. They’ll miss grand opportunities to help people move forward.
Divine justice in the soul of a mystic brings the serenity that enables a very sure hand of justice in the midst of chaos.
