“It’s a paradox that, generally speaking, mystics want their religion to be mystical and their art to be inchoately logical – rather than the other way around.”
(Samuel R. Delany, interviewed by Josh Luskin, The Minnesota Review, 65–66, spring 2006.)
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It isn’t clear to me that the author understands mysticism. Maybe the statement needs more context?