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…