Światło w perspektywie mistyków katolickich
Light in the perspective of catholic mystics

Author(s): Anna Grzegorczyk
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Christian mysticism; mystical experience; contemplation; absolute cognition; absolute truth; comprehension; Mystical Light; God in the Trinity; Logos
Summary/Abstract: Absolute cognition, which is associated with mystical experience, transcends rationalistic and metaphysical forms of knowing reality: explanation, understanding or interpretation. It activates a non-rationalist form of it – an understanding that moves away from traditional, scientific cognitive norms, opening up through the intuition of a transcendent Being – personified in the Trinity – to the Divine Creator Instance, which is the Light – Logos. This opening is at the same time a subordination of Her reason, imagination and will. Comprehension, therefore, occurs in the Light thus experienced – the light that transforms and divinizes man. Th e Trinity as Light reveals the absolute Truth of God, impressed in the Word – Christ, initiated by the Holy Spirit. In this sense, there is absolute cognition in God in the Trinity, along with the ascent to the sense of being through the fusion and union of man with God; fusion being the pinnacle of this cognition. Its attainment is processual, maturing through spiritual growth that transcends man’s nature, language and reason, while accessing supernatural realms. Immersion in the Trinity is the apogee of mystical experience and the highest cognitive form of comprehension, which is contemplation.

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