Redemptive sacrifice can only occur in the mythic realm Redemptive sacrifice for reconciliation of the self and world can only occur in the mythic realm. No physical sacrifice can produce such reconciliation. The Catholic theology emphasizes reconciliation as being achieved on the physical realm by the suffering and death and miraculous recovery of life, by a physical being. But such a theology cannot be true.
Reconciliation is a mental event and can only occur through activity in the mental realm.
Thus if we view transcendence and reconciliation as activity purely on the mental realm, it is most fitting that Jesus the Christ and reconciler only exists and acts within the mental, mythic, symbolic realm. Catholic theology was designed to provide an ineffective, substitute reconciliation that would make people give all wealth and power to the church in a hopeless, futile effort to purchase reconciliation on the physical plane. That theology is a scheme of physicalistic purchase of reconciliation, but reconciliation can only be mental and can only be purchased and attained by mental activity. Christ's sacrifice is strictly a mythic-realm, mental purchase of a mental reconciliation. I am washed in the blood of my lower, egoic self, spilled only in the symbolic realm.