That Jaspers does not consider himself a mystic is not at all surprising since the term mystic is so poorly understood and almost always misused. "All our knowledge," he states repeatedly and emphatically, "remains in the world; we never reach the world."¹ Such a position obviously rules out other-worldly or world-negating forms of mysticism. But what about the world that the transcending subject can never reach? Jaspers' rejection of mysticism, therefore, is qualified inasmuch as his notion of world, as in the case of Heidegger,² is itself mystical. That is, the world is not something that merely stretches about us as an environment, it is not identified with geography and physical matter, but symbolizes that toward which we strive or transcend as project. But neither is the world merely an idea or mental picture. It has rather the character of a symbol or cipher which, as in myth, has to do with a known and lived unity; a Weltanschauung that is not merely an academic exercise, but something that is unfathomably connected to what we have previously discussed as the Supersensible. In other words, the world is not only that from which I come, within which I am, and apart from which I could have no being. It is also that which draws or calls me as the idea of possible Unity. In terms of Transcendence the world is something which I simultaneously am and am not.