ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the treatment of la mystique and suggests that, though Vladimir Lossky was fully aware of the notion of the mystical as concerned with the inward, he reinterprets this in terms of an inward experience of the sacramental life of the Church, the true mysterium, Christ present in the Church through the Holy Spirit, which validates the notion of la mystique. Mysticism was very much in the air when Lossky gave his lectures in Paris towards the end of the Second World War, and had been since the beginning of the century. From about the end of the 1920s until the end of his life, Lossky was engaged in a major study of the German mystic, Meister Eckhart. The mystical, for Lossky, is bound up with the apophatic. The apophatic way of Eastern theology is the repentance of the human person before the face of the living God.
