How Is What Is Unknowable Represented?

The mystic uses analogy to have a direct experience of the divine, which is, of course, a paradoxical, if not an altogether nonsensical thing to say. Nonetheless, Analogy is a sort of immediate mediation of God's ultimate nature as love itself for the mystic. Love like God is not good because it is the ground of whatever there is including goodness. Love is what makes any other intention appear, so love's intention is that being be an indeterminate becoming, which is a becoming without the determination of a completely unified intention. Love is the intention that undoes itself because its nature is to be self-sacrificial, or an unintentional intention that grounds other intentions, which is what is meant by the "unconditional" or "non-transactional" nature of "Real" love. If love were determinate, it wouldn't be loving because love requires a free choice, so love as the ground of whatever there is, is a dialectical relation between the determinations of being and indeterminacy of nonbeing. But a free choice also requires the relation of the indeterminacy of pure potential to the determinations of the limits of form or structure, which is what Deleuze called, "an actual possibility." Analogy is this relation between potential and limit that determines without complete determination, which is to make present through absence, or through the failure of representation in the distortion of the intention as the failure to unify the phenomenal and the conceptual objects that appear on the subjective screen. Intentional representation gives us our first-person, subjective experience of a world by unifying whatever there is into the objects that appear to us as the world. But what happens when too much aboutness has been given for our intention to unify into phenomenological or conceptual objects, as is the case when the object of our intention is the ground of intention itself. The subject of mystical experience can only be known in its unknowability as the distortion of the intentional field that Lacan called the "Real."

Baddass vibes mixed by James Reeves of Midnight Radio: jamesreeves.co