Eric Voegelin considers the source of the normativity of law to be “Ought in the ontological sense”, or the tension experienced by man between the transcendental true order and the empirical man-made order. A legal philosophy of this kind presupposes a sort of philosophical anthropology that treats a human as a being between transcendence and mundanity. Man is guided by the Transcendent, and hence he experiences normativity. Such a philosophy of law is mystical. Furthermore, only a mystical philosophy of law based between transcendence and mundanity can rightfully guide man’s pursuit of the Absolute. Thereby, it prevents the legal order from decaying into disorder which Voegelin names Gnosticism and eventually collapsing into the tragedy of totalitarianism.