Speculative cognition is the intuitive result of dialectic which in turn can be given a name and then itself in turn be used dialectically to further science. Speculation in its unexpressed intuitive state is mysticism proper but that same intellectual intuition expressed rationally and explicitly in prose demonstrations is mysticism demystified, a speculative system of thought.

The understanding does not exhaust the powers of the mind; it's power of synthesis (imagination),as opposed to analysis (understanding), gives us an intuition of a whole which the understanding only understands in parts, and that IS the mystical; but speculative philosophy then reanalyzes this new content provided by this intellectual intuition by means of the understanding. The mystical intuition is the same for the mystic as well as for the speculative philosopher; what separates them is that whereas the mystic stops at the intuition of the whole and leaves it uncomprehended, the speculative philosopher dares to try to understand both the whole and the parts in relation to the whole. The speculative philosopher does not just stand in contrast to the mystic, he is that same mystic at a higher stage of his development.

Those who lack the speculative ability to see the unity AND the difference between mysticism and speculative philosophy one-sidedly abstract from their unity and only payattention to their difference. They are stages in the development of spiritual conscious, with the speculative philosopher being one rung up the ladder through his expansion of understanding by means of his conceptualization of the mystic vision. In other words, the (common) understanding ALONE cannot arrive at the mystic vision, and imagination ALONE must need leave the mystic vision in its uncomprehended mystery (the stage of the mystic), but when you get someone who by means of the imagination has arrived at the mystic vision, and dares to understand that holistic vision (the stage of the speculative philosopher) then you have both the components necessary to express that holistic vision in terms of the understanding as the organic system of abstract identities, which when grasped as a concrete whole presents the mystic vision once again but now in the clearness and distinctness of the system of speculative philosophy, or the Absolute concept expressed and communicable through human language.