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The Jouissance of the Mystic

Helen Sheehan

Issue 1 — Summer 1994

111–116

The mystic is on the side of Being - and he knows that where there is Being there is a desire for Infinity. The mystic knows that in Truth there is a price to be paid for Being. St. Teresa of Avila knew this. She knew that she had to be saved and that it was only God who could do this "I do not think that you left anything undone to make me Yours, entirely even from my youth"[1].…

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