Let yourself fall

The adventure is played vertically. In abyssal gaping. This vertical line determines the anthropological structure of the human being. From the external sensitive faculties to inner higher faculties and from there to the fine bottom of the 'heart'. From top downwards. From outside towards the interior. From the periphery towards the centre, towards this mysterious dimension called 'secret kingdom', 'interior desert', 'divine darkness', 'hidden abyss'… The absolute point of gravity. Consequently man cannot be not-falling. He carries in himself an 'eternal inclination', say something like a gravitation or a tropism towards his eternal origin. Just get relaxed and let you fall.

This approach is revolutionary! No question to escape towards the heights of a 'stratospheric transcendence'. On the contrary, it is in its extreme 'immanence' that the heart is called. And it is there that it finds God and finds itself authentically.

You have to fall in God. It's physical like a tropism or the gravity. According to a quasi 'natural' gravitation, God falls in man and man falls in God. Why, then, the bottom of the 'heart' doesn't keep open its 'native' gaping? Why don't we fall spontaneously in holiness? The major reason is due to the obstructions.

The obviousness of what you are leaving is easy. The obviousness of what you have to search for is always crucified. You have to go through obscure and wild extents. Your have to go through your own anguish. You will go from tearing and tearing. The promised land is only further ahead.

Just go down… Seek God on the vertical line of yourself. Get over your interior distances. You surrender to your own essential truth. You surrender to the Other one. You imagine falling into a vacuum. It is a mysterious presence which welcomes you. It is God you meet while crossing your own distance. Don't forget that, against a majority of the mystics, Tauler does not emphasize 'going up' but 'going down', the abyssal descent. The major reason of this movement will be seen later in connexion with Agape.

Thisvertical interiority is not the closed small world of your intimacies. It is an unfathomable abyss. It is an infinite universe. Your mystery, however, is already more than yours. Your mystery is embarked where you are not any more alone master on board of yourself. In your extreme abyssal depths, the Other one calls. According to the word of psalm 41: the Abyss calls the abyss. The other Abyss, the divine Abyss, calls you in your abyss.

To reach your essential humanity there is no other way than the negative one. The more you quit, the more you find yourself. But otherwise and doubtless in a more authentic way. You have to leave your deployments in the great easy widths of the world. You have to leave your entertainments in the superficial opulence. You have to leave your onedimensional euphorias. You have to leave your possessions and your dominations in the mundane multiplicity. You have to leave your phenomenal obviousnesses. You have to leave the enclosures of your schizoid will...

You reach the promised land only through a crucifying release. Man must thus break himself to really reach himself. Man belongs not absolutely to himself but is primarily only through the transcendence of an infinite verticality. That, according to the expression of Pascal, man 'passes man infinitely', is incontestably the most scandalous assertion for our modernity. Such an assertion, however, corresponds to the fundamental experience of the Christian mystic. This experience is not 'phenomenal'. It cannot be exhausted by things such that they appear to me. It is not either 'transcendental', meaning that it would be identified with the ultimate aiming of my extreme possibilities. It is 'transcendent'. It crosses the perceptible and intellectual representations. It crosses its own aiming itself. It gets ultimately in deep communion with the Being itself of an extreme Reality.

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