Mysticism and mystics proceed/proceeded science.

People are mystified and then develop observational skills to catalog how things behave (science).

Inevitably as science has shown repeatedly throughout its history existing explanations fail and then we’re mystified again and start a new part of the scientific process over, to replace or expand beyond the failed ‘fact.’

Art rarely suffers from this phenomenon because artists are natural born mystics. And remain free of the annoying, know-it-all hubris that science often foments.