monotheism starts from the assumption that the absolute is consciousness,

All three paths are aberrations; they make absolutes out of what is not in itself the absolute, and they thereby make slaves of men. They are also, it is true, aberrations in which something

It also means that every man holds the faith only as a symbolon, a broken, incomplete piece that can only attain unity and completeness when it is laid together with the others. Only in symballein, in fitting together with them, can the symballein, the fitting together with God, take place.

“He is not called Father with reference to himself but only in relation to the Son; seen by himself he is simply God.”

A symbolum is something that points to its complementary other half and thus creates mutual recognition and unity. It is the expression and means of unity.

The Christian sees in man, not an individual, but a person; and it seems to me that this passage from individual to person contains the whole span of the transition from antiquity to Christianity, from Platonism to faith.

While a thought is interior, purely intellectual, the word represents the element that unites us with others.

Not to be encompassed by the greatest, but to let oneself be encompassed by the smallest—that is divine.

Church is something more and something other than an external institutionalization and organization of ideas. He had understood that Christianity is not a system of