The Mysticism of Luther and the Mystics of Johannes Tala

The nature of the world starts to become more autonomous as it runs itself because it no longer points towards God. And you can see how eventually somebody like Luther finds all that intolerable. You could argue that he's reacting against an already decadent vision, whereas people like Johannes Tala much more hung on to an older mystical unity. But by that period in history, I think the problem was that it tended to be only the mystics who understood an older Christianity and the more learned Christianity has rather lost sight of that.