“Religious symbols do exactly the same thing as all symbols do – namely, they open up a level of reality, which otherwise is not opened at all, which is hidden... Religious symbols open up the experience of the dimension of (the) depth in the human soul. If a religious symbol has ceased to have this function, then it dies. And if new symbols are born, they are born out of a changed relationship to the ultimate ground of being, i.e., to the Holy.”
Why God?
Why God?
Why God?
“Religious symbols do exactly the same thing as all symbols do – namely, they open up a level of reality, which otherwise is not opened at all, which is hidden... Religious symbols open up the experience of the dimension of (the) depth in the human soul. If a religious symbol has ceased to have this function, then it dies. And if new symbols are born, they are born out of a changed relationship to the ultimate ground of being, i.e., to the Holy.”