[252] restricting himself, with becoming intolerant and narrow. And this was the actual situation of religion in the modern time: it was not able to resist man's losing himself in the realm of the objects which were created by man himself in terms of abstraction. And religion COULD not perform this function because man did---with the symbols ^aof religion---what he had done with himself, namely [to] make himself and these symbols into objects of a world of abstract levels the GREATNESS of which are that they opened up the world for the process of cognition and control. But this was the price man had to pay for his Iliadic^b going-away from himself.