A mystic would usually believe that metaphorical or symbolic statements about God are probably more helpful and accurate in comprehending the Divinity than pure intelligence. However, just as the greatest Christian mystics were inevitably faithful to the formal teachings and practices of the Church so too they made eminently practical application of their mystical insights in their lives. The difficulty for mysticism today is that in too many minds it is associated with esoteric occultism, psycho-physical phenomena, visions, ecstasies, and the like. The greatest early mystics rarely, if ever, experienced such things. And such manifestations are absolutely not a definitive part of the mystical way, nor should they ever be either sought or depended upon if by any chance they are experienced.
Intellect deals with knowledge, emotions with feelings, and intuition with insight.
A further problem arises in mysticism's supra-rational stance which in too many cases is seen as an excuse for the repudiation of Church discipline and practice. Also, a mystic will tend to see everyday life from an all-encompassing, transcendent point of view. She will tend to see events in the world from the point of view of eternity, and therefore be impacted differently by socio-political affairs even such affairs within the institutional Church. In her Revelations, for instance, Mother Julian never once even mentions the twisted cultural turmoil of the 14th century England. It is just that the mystics saw their world from God's point of view and therefore saw more clearly what was truly needed, and were willing to stand for those things when others would never presume to do so.