described in 2 Corinthians 12. The combination of these two traditions (Greek and scriptural) created a desire and a strategy to be someone “from whom God hides nothing.” In other words, it resulted in mysticism, a kind of holy presumptuousness in which I, an “ordinary” Christian, refuse to accept that great encounters with God are the exclusive privilege of biblical heroes. I begin to desire to see the Lord “sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up,” as did Isaiah; to get a glimpse of the fullness