A brief explanation as to why I see the Tradition of the Book as intended to be a tradition of Mysticism.

Throughout the Book, pride is labeled as a sin, something to be avoided and transcended. The primary goal, as far as I'm aware, of most forms of modern mysticism is the transcendence of the ego. Pride is the fuel source of the ego.

The Book demands faith over knowledge. Faith to my mind is necessary to transcend the ego, because when reason is motivated by pride, there is a need to know that when not met induces insecurity and the potential for computational errors. Pride seems to feed on certainty because uncertain territory could have hid predators, inspiring the evolutionary ancestors of modern men to take survival advantage from fear of the dark. 

The problem comes when faith is defined as belief without evidence. I define faith as belief that is honest about the uncertain nature of the data and motivated by love. 

My first blog entry here, on God, also provides a further important clue as to why the Book should be perceived as the foundation of a mystical tradition: because contemplation upon God is apparently intended to open the heart, and the third eye pineal gland, with acausal love. 

My last reason is that the scriptures don't "make sense" to me without some degree of contemplative insight into deeper esoteric meaning, and that these deeper esoteric meanings are exceedingly easy to find, such that the odds seem very low to me that this wasn't intended by some sort of Author(s) of the Book. To validate this claim, I plan on using my blog to provide some of the esoteric meanings I suspect exist within the book's pages.