Nikolai Berdyaev. The spirit and reality (№ 304931)

Sanctification there is always symbolism. Sacred in this world there are no sacred reality and the symbolization of the sacred reality. Sanctification was not a realization of the sacred, and the symbolization of the sacred. The sacred symbolized by the anointed one in the hierarchical ranks in sprinkling Holy water on material objects. Sanctification is not human, not a discovery of human spirituality. In her spirit objectified in signs and symbols. There is a huge difference in how to recognize the Holy anointed sacred ranks and consecrated objects, and how to recognize the sacred - the human subject, his Holiness, his creativity, freedom, love, justice, brotherhood, knowledge, the beauty of the soul, etc. the First symbolic, the second is realistic.