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THE APOPHATIC MYSTIC: An apophatic mystic is someone who approaches the divine or ultimate reality through negation—that is, by describing what it is not rather than what it is. This is the essence of apophatic theology (also called negative theology), which argues that because the divine is beyond human comprehension, all affirmative descriptions (e.g., “God is love,” “God is powerful”) ultimately fail to capture its true nature. Instead, an apophatic mystic strips away all concepts, symbols, a