There is no naked truth for Wolfson. The truth can never reveal itself as it really is. The truth can only appear to a human being in the form of an image—which is to say, through a veil. The veil, however, always implies a face, something which is veiled, just as that which is veiled, a face, needs the veil to appear at all. The bottom line is this: the religious symbol of the text or tradition reveals only through concealing and conceals only by revealing.
