The Logic of Mystery in the Concept of Analogy

“Analogy” must rise to the transcendental plane of mystery, for if it is reduced to mere logic then “analogy” as such is destroyed in metaphysical contradiction. This metaphysical contradiction—“metaphysical” as understood by Aristotelian logical philosophy—is being and not-being at the same time and in the same respect; it is the union and intersection of being different and the same, necessarily both at the same time and in the same respect, since without being the same in the same respect there could be no commonality between things related by analogy, while without being different in the same respect there could be no meaningful distinction between such things. This notion of simultaneously being the same and being distinguished in the same respect flatly contravenes logic, i.e. the Principle of Non-Contradition. The only way to save analogy is for it to rise above the plane of mere logic; analogia must retreat from logic to inhabit the plane of mysterium.[1]

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[1] Originally thought of on 19 November 2015, 1:40-1:45am; Expanded 30 November 2015, 8:45-9:15pm PST.