And here is our point of meeting with the women at the tomb. They thought they knew what they were headed for, they had regular sorts of obstacles to deal with, to keep them busy in the face of their overwhelming sense of loss and meaninglessness. Mystery, entering into the unknown, is the sacred ground upon which we can meet God, as the Risen Christ, and this is definitely a Mystery. Mystery is not mystification or an attempt to confuse. Mystery is a different order of knowing and trying to apply the methodology of empiricism to mystery is to head in the wrong direction.
Mystery has a logic, an order of being and knowing that supersedes the limitations of empiricism.
Mystery is not surrounded, bordered, or limited by facts, but by God. We begin to know and to be known. We find ourselves, our life, hidden as it were, and then revealed, with Christ in God. The ground of mystery, letting go of what we think we know in order to discover what is meaningful and from who does meaning come and how is meaning translated into power to live justly and compassionately. Mystery ultimately clarifies.