[BNP/E3, 14³ – 21]

But whereas the philosophic nature of mysticism includes it to consider it as a defect of critical cerebration, the same modality of conception, observed from the standpoint of aesthetical connectivity has just another character. Mysticism absorbed in literature, in poetic literature especially. This depends on the nature of poetry. Poetry is essentially mystical. Its essence is an abnormality by deficiency of critical and excess of emotional activity, contrived, instinctively by its own laws, and by no other laws. Mysticism, in its turn, involves poetry, and is a species of poetry – itself, though really the essence of it.

Alexander Search 

[21^v]

Good men + intruders

Spirits that loathe their vices

On the spirit – as monosyllable.

(Ben Jonson – Every Man out of his Humour

Introduction – p. 67.)