Spirit coming from beyond history. Can such an existential, a-historical encounter be adequately transmitted through history? Will not talking about it reduce it to just an object of thought? The problem posed here is similar to that found in mysticism. The mystical experience is by nature ineffable, yet the mystic needs to talk about it; for it is in naming the experience, often using the language of tradition, that one could make any sense of it. ‘The mystic must speak the language of the tradition