《我发现了》是爱伦?坡最后一部作品，这部作品是一篇发表于1848年关于宇宙论的散文诗。坡详细论述了一个有限宇宙，宇宙起源于上帝创造的原始微粒，且微粒在电荷斥力和万有引力作用下运动。坡认为宇宙最终将毁灭，并提出人类则与上帝同一的宇宙神学观。 一个神秘主义者通常由精神上的超验体验而获得与上帝的同一。本论文认为《我发现了》中坡的神秘主义倾向主要体现为“想象”、“直观”与“心灵”，并就该三个关键词进行阐述。第一章介绍《我发现了》的内容和批评史、神秘主义的基本内涵及其与古希腊哲学的联系。第二章着重分析“想象”在文中的含义，并考察《我发现了》与坡以前的文本使用的“想象”概念是否相同，尤其是坡如何继承科勒律治的“想象”概念。第三章着重分析“直观”在文中的含义。第四章着重分析“灵魂”在文中的含义，并讨论康德对坡的影响。论文还通过分析坡的科幻短篇小说来支撑《我发现了》的神秘主义解读，小说文本包括《阿瑟?戈登?皮姆的故事》、《汉斯?普法尔历险记》、《埃洛斯与沙米翁的对话》、《莫诺斯与尤拉的对话》、《催眠启示录》与《言语的力量》。 本论文认为《我发现了》及以上六篇短篇小说均体现了坡通过个人死亡或宇宙毁灭而获得心灵提升的神秘主义观念。《我发现了》是一部神秘主义作品，但坡并不是突然地成为了一个神秘主义者。他的神秘主义论调和他以前的小说、批评、文论文本有所呼应。但坡的神秘倾向是肤浅和武断的，论点有东拼西凑之嫌。他的宇宙生成论和古希腊原子论类似，但只是六经注我式地借古人思想来支撑自己的世界观。他将开普勒得出定理的偶然性归结为“直观”，其实是对开普勒的误解和对科学史的无知。他更不理解开普勒和牛顿用“力”代替“灵魂”背后，有灵论向机械论的世界观的转变。整体上，坡朴素的思想表明一个人如何在哲学、科学早已高度发展的时代，依然为基本的哲学思辨所吸引而和人类思想的源头相呼应。但同时，坡并未坚定跟随某一个哲学家或文学家，他博采众长，只为营造自己的形而上学体系，而非针对某个领域进行深耕。

Eureka was Edgar Allan Poe’s last work, a prose poem on cosmology published in 1848. Poe elaborated on a finite universe originated from the Primordial Particles. The particles are created by God and move under the electrical repulsion and gravitational attraction. The universe would finally end, and men would identify themselves with God. A mystic is the person who attains to union with God through spiritual experience of transcendental world. This thesis marks and demonstrates Poe’s mystic orientation in Eureka by three key words, “imagination,” “intuition,” and “soul.” Chapter One introduced the plot and critical history of Eureka, the general meanings and ancient Greek origin of Mysticism. Chapter Two included a textual analysis of “imagination”, the resemblance of its use in Eureka and Poe’s previous writings, and how Poe inherited the term from Coleridge. Chapter Three focused on how Poe demonstrated “intuition” in the text. Chapter Four discussed Poe’s use of “soul” and the possibility of Kant’s influence on Poe. The mystic understanding of Eureka is supported by literary analysis of Poe’s fictional writings which include The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Adventure of Hans Pfaall, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Mesmeric Revelation and The Power of Words. The thesis concludes that Eureka and the six fictions are underlined by the mystic theme of enhancing one’s soul through individual death or universe destruction. Eureka is a work of mysticism but Poe did not become a mystic in a short time. Instead of being a new idea, Eureka corresponded to his early fictional, critical and theoretical writings. But Poe pieced his arguments together, making his thoughts look superficial and limited. Though his cosmogony appeared similar to Greek atomism, Poe was supporting himself with ancient thoughts. That he took Kepler’s accidental Laws as a good example of “Intuition” showed his misunderstanding of Kepler and ignorance of science history. It was less possible for Poe to see the turn from animatism to mechanism behind Kepler’s and Newton’s replacing “soul” with “force”. On the whole, Poe’s naive mysticism indicated how, in an age with high multi-disciplinary development, one could be fascinated by basic philosophical speculation and share his mind with ancient Greek beginning of human intellectual history. It was also clear that Poe had not followed any thinker from beginning to end. He learned from his predecessors in order to create a metaphysical world of his own rather than become an expert on some field.