They hopelessly do not understand that for Christ to be “symbol” of anything in the world, the world itself must, in the first place, be known, viewed, and experienced as the “symbol” of God, as the epiphany of his holiness, power, and glory—that, in other terms, it is not “Christ” or “God” that have to be explained in terms of this world and of its passing needs so as to become their “symbols” but, on the contrary, it is God and God alone that has made this world his symbol, has then fulfilled this symbol in Christ and will consummate it in his eternal Kingdom. When deprived of this symbol
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