I as listening to the so-called Roman Catholic 'Synod of Synodality' where the fight is to try to bring back the Vatican Council 2 initiatives that recent Popes have almost fully removed. I listened as one of the theologians spoke of 'mystery'. He used the term to refer to a belief that cannot be understood by human intelligence alone. In other words it is irrational. He used the term as a way of ending a conversation. A way of saying that this is the end and we can't go any further. I though how different this is from the way we look at 'mystery' in the arts. In the arts 'mystery' is a way of seducing the person to move beyond it to encounter another presence. Mystery is an invitation not a 'do not pass' indicator. In the context of the synod 'mystery' blocks and pulls the person back to the past in the arts it opens the person to the future..
