[454] Now in this situation, certainly the answer is not religion^a--and this is very often so. But the answer might perhaps be something else, named, "God^b," or "the Ultimate^c," or "that which TRANSCENDS the law, of repression^d." It may be that which in religion is called "grace^e," or the power which overcomes the conflict between the law^f and the reality of our being, [which] can overcome repression^g without the dangerous and disease-producing explosions which we see in our younger generation so often, and in older men even (not more often but almost equally often) if they come from the generation of repression. Now this means that only one thing can overcome it, namely a power of being^h which gives fulfillment of the IDEA of personalityⁱ in such a way that the TOTALITY of our being is included, and the TOTALITY of nature outside and inside of us is included, and the eros^j towards

other men is included. Now how this can happen is another question. It can happen if we are open for it, because there is healing^k power in reality. You can even find it in churches^l. You can also find it in the latent church, which is often in opposition to the manifest church. You can find it even in those who seem to be libertinists and complete despisers of any law. You can find it even in those who are on the edge of mental distortion. There is such healing power present in reality. The old name of this healing power is charis, or gratia--grace^m, which is still a good word in English and which means the possibility of having a being in which the law of suppression is not valid any more; in which the so to speak living connections between the unconscious and the consciousⁿ, between the controlling will and the natural desires, are kept open. Now obviously, in saying all this,