The Mystical Experience of St Thomas

The details of exactly what he told father reginald vary. According to one account, he responded to the request to start writing again by saying "all that i have written seems like straw" It's consistent with him having a mystical vision of heavenly realities which made human words seem pale by comparison. Maybe an argument suddenly occurred to him while he was saying mass, and this argument undermine a key principle of his system of thought,. On the other hand, according to another version of his response, aquinas said, i can do no more.