The name of mystic ought to be applied only to those Christians to whom _immediate_ relations with Jesus form the basis of the religious life.

In this sense St.Paul (whose theologico-philosophical system is one of the most powerful efforts of the human mind to explain sin and redemption) is at the same time the prince of mystics.
[15] He did not desire to institute a religion, for he felt the vanity of observances and dogmas.

(The apostles continued to frequent the Jewish temple.

Acts, ii., 46; iii., 1; v., 25; xxi., 26.) He desired to inoculate the world with a new life.
[16] 2 Cel., 3, 29; cf.

1 Cel., 115; 3 Soc., 13 and 14; 2 Cel., 1, 6; 2 Cel., 3, 123 and 131; Bon., 57; 124; 203; 204; 224; 225; 309; 310; 311; _Conform._, 229b ff.
[17] 1 Cel., 91-94; Bon., 189, 190.
[18] See the annotations of Brother Leo upon the autograph of St.Francis (Crit.