The operation of the mind during mystical union.
Spinoza, Ethics V, Pr.21: 'The mind can exercise neither
imagination nor memory save while the body endures.
Proof: It is only while the body endures that the mind expresses the
actual existence of its body and conceives the affections of the body
as actual. Consequently it does not conceive any body as actually
existing save while its own body endures. Therefore it cannot exercise
either imagination or memory save while the body endures.'
Return to stage 12 analysis.