[309] OUTSIDE of them, but something which is IN them---and THERE was the reason for my hesitation. Something which in, with, and under the natural forms of the encountered reality: there we encounter something which is not the ordinary encountered reality, but in, with and under the forms and sounds and words and imaginations of the encountered reality, something else appears. Now this is the pointing-beyond. "Beyond" doesn't mean "to something else which could be grasped in another way," but it means "to another dimension which cannot be grasped in ANY other way than through the

artistic revelation." Therefore one rightly speaks of the "revelatory" character of great art; if the word revelatory here is removed from its genuinely religious sense and simply means opening up a dimension of reality which is otherwise closed. When I spoke about symbols^a generally, I said that this is not only the case with respect to the encountered reality but also with respect to the encountering soul---if you allow me to use this German romantic word "soul," which now must be translated by the word "psychological," although

psychē originally meant "soul," but since we now have psychology without soul, the word soul cannot be used any more. I KNOW ! I mean the total personality in all its different dimensions, levels and functions. And when I mean this---the centered life process, as the word psychē originally me8t [sic.] meant in Greek---now if I speak about this, then I would say: there are levels or dimensions in our total being---in our soul, if you allow me that word---which cannot be opened up in any other way than by art. Now everybody would agree with this. Those of you who are musical can easiest agree with me because that which you experience in terms of opening up your souls, in listening to a great work of music