From a prophet (one who has the Word of God (and bold access to the throne of God)

The Christian faith - i.e. reality, God's plan for his creation - is mystical at its heart. I laugh when I read modern day self-identified Calvinists then read Calvin's third book of his Institutes. Calvin is a bare foot mystic compared to these shallow, cardboard blockheads. And anywhere Calvin erred in hewing too closely to Romanist ritual or notions of 'church' is excused by his place in time and his life, having been Romanist from birth. Modern day self-identified Calvinists have no such excuse. One thing about Calvin though: whenever he was confronting a Romanist cleric directly the Spirit came out of him in pure doctrinally on-the-mark fashion regarding ritual sacraments and issues of church whatever. This is another aspect of Calvin the modern day self-identified Calvinists refuse to acknowledge.

Why is the faith mystical? (I use that word knowing it is a big bullseye for the mockers with seminary degrees, or their followers). Because the faith is not about being good, it is about making contact. It is about having the Holy Spirit in you, and increasing one's capacity for having the Holy Spirit in you without exploding and grieving the Spirit. The faith is about being born on high, falling, and then being drawn back upwards higher than where you were created. This process is mystical because it involves will that is not self-will. It involves God's will in you. The faith is mystical because the Holy Spirit guides and illuminates you. There is degree in this for each believer. The faith is mystical because it is between you - an individual - and God. It is mystical because it is practical and something you actually practice. It is mystical because it is about separation from the world (another thing the modern day self-identified Calvinists mock and 'correct' having to throw out the Institutes once again while they're at it).

Against all this is the world and the devil and his toady followers. They despise regeneration (being born again). They mock it. They despise the voice of the Shepherd (the very Word of God). Because it quickens souls. (They show their disgust with the Word of God by adopting perverted and defiled versions of it based on mutilated manuscripts created by heretics and scholars so marinated in Satanism it is the height of open, flaunting shamelessness for them to pretend otherwise.) They enforce man-fearing and the acceptance of man-mediators between individuals and God; and they exalt the word of man over the Word of God. They exalt ritual and man over the Word and the Spirit. They practice the unbiblical nonsense of being respecters of persons. They create clerical hierarchies. They create and exist in smug villages of morality while pretending to be on the Way. While they mock Christians who are strangers in this world and are actually on the Way.