Mystical Knowledge is Veiled

Alan Watts

We do not have to seek for God; he is already here and now, and to seek for him implies that he is not. We do not, in this sense, have to attain union with God; it is already given as an act of the divine love. To try to attain it by our own efforts is to slight that love and, again, to imply that the gift is not given. By the same principle, though, this will require further explanation, even the mystical consciousness of God is given now, whereas to seek for it by some method or technique implies the contrary.

The  mystical consciousness of God is, of course, distinct from the direct consciousness of the Beatific Vision. Mystical knowledge is still veiled, and St. Dionysus describes it paradoxically as the "super luminous darkness".

Behold the Spirit, Introduction