Nevertheless, the fact itself that my yearning is fulfilled, that a friend comes to me, remains a mystery. In the same manner I can understand what God's grace means, asking for it as long as it does not come to me, accepting it thankfully when it does come to me. The fact that it comes to me, that the gracious God is my God, remains forever a mystery, not because God performs in an irrational manner something that interrupts the natural course of events, but because it is inconceivable that He should encounter me in His Word as the gracious God. Pure abstract metaphysics, completely free of myth is the death of living knowledge, a breaking away from being, a stoppage of nourishment. Myth represents the supernatural in the natural, the superperceptive in the perceptive, the life of the spirit in that of the flesh.
Myth is the symbolic bond between two worlds.
The former is symbolic, the latter realistic. If there is only one world, one order of being, symbol has no place. Symbol tells us that the meaning of one world lies in another, that signs of meaning are given from this other world. The meaningfulness of the processes of nature are doubtful. We may discover meaning only by living it in spiritual experience, only by turning our thought toward the spiritual world.