Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy,

and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons

into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold,

conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his

highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos.. Finally, the mind breaks the

bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form—all

symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void…