The Silent Cry
” Mystics have very rarely separated themselves from existing historical religions;
without externally changing a single letter,
they understood the meaning of these religions more deeply.
They did not deny revelation but appropriated it differently.
Second, conflict was part and parcel of the case:
confrontation has to come between too much love for God
and the institution that is concerned with regularity and order….
Mysticism and organized religion are related like spirit to power.”  Â
Dorothee Soelle, The Silent Cry:Â Mysticism and Resistance, p. 45
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