This genuine reality, which Plotinus calls the “One”, transcending all being and all names, and which to the Buddhist way of looking at things is absolute “Nothingness”—this reality has no name or face. The real goal of all purification and healing is to step outside of the realm of names and of faces, out of the realm of divisions and opposition, into the namelessness of the “One” or else of the “Nothing”. What was and is new about biblical religion is the fact that this primordial Being itself, the real “God”, of whom there can be no images, nevertheless has a face and a name and is a
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