The Transience of Mystical Experience

James notes the 'transience' of mystical experience, without offering an explicit theory that explains that characteristic.  However, by classifying such experiences as 'deliverance', he implicitly encourages the theological criticism of their transience as proof of their inferiority, in that respect, to the permanence of divine salvation.  Now, according to Pragmatism, the locus of Meaning is in verifiable consequences.  Hence, a truly Pragmatist study of mystical experience would examine the consequences of that moment, including those subsequent to the transient peak of the experience.  In those terms, 'mystical experience', would denote both a transient peak moment and subsequent phases.  Thus, James' attribution of 'transience' to mystical experience expresses an abandonment of his erstwhile Pragmatist principles, possibly in the service of a theology that benefits from that attribution.