ABSTRACT
The emancipation from the cosmos involves the emancipation from objective truth. The move which is to have the double result of restoring to freedom its creativity and to truth its validity runs through two phases. The first phase, negative in character, is related to the second, affirmative one as the swing to the throw or the start to the jump. The entire first phase of dialectic is a marking time within the closed sphere of despair. The period of spiritual destitution as suffered and explored by the mystic writers' bears so close a resemblance to the tedium and fatigue of the soul which grow upon the mind through the encounter with nothingness that it is hard to discover any significant difference. The great principle that the soul must “lose to find and die to live” dominates the Christian mystic’s thought in all its phases.
