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Let's say the Pope doesn't consolidate and refrain from a closer study of the celestial courts. How would Christianity develop if more mysticism was allowed to thrive? I can see protestants having one more thing to be pissed about, especially considering the amount of siguls that could start floating around.
 
Let's say the Pope doesn't consolidate and refrain from a closer study of the celestial courts. How would Christianity develop if more mysticism was allowed to thrive? I can see protestants having one more thing to be pissed about, especially considering the amount of siguls that could start floating around.

In the first place, it would lead to a deeper rift with Eastern Christianity, which is already in OTL inclined to regard Western Christianity as corrupted by paganism. Perhaps reform-minded westerners would conclude that reform is hopeless, and simply attempt to import orthodoxy from the east.
 
Someone answer my question please.

Unlikely.
See, even if the tradition plays a great role in medieval christianity (as nowadays, you would say), mysticism was seen as dangerousy close to heterodoxy and once you have an united church with a clear institutional leader...Let's say it would be hard to promote something believed to have a damaging role.

Now, the best period to introduce such feature is maybe the Late Antiquity and having lasting, dominant regionally, heresies. Of course, it would prevent the constitution of A christian church, as we would be more in favour of increasignly "national" ones.
And, of course, Protestants or even the concept of western/eastern christianities are likely to be butterflied away.

I would point that depsite kings in a first time, then pope after 850/900 AD could say about mysiticsm, it was quite common in the everyday faith and religious tales. So it's less about mysiticm being "allowed to thrive" (something that makes little sense) but about popular religiousity being institutionalised.
And this latter, as said, is greatly unlikely.
 
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