"There are not many ways to God, but only one, and it lies through the depth of a man's soul, when he leaves his false self behind, and stripped, and alone like the myth heroes—goes into the darkness. The darkness may be catastrophe, personal or communal, or it may be the yearly daily round of ordinary living, continued when the first enthusiasm has died and there seems no reason to go on and do right except clinging to a laughable conviction that there is something worth going on for. And in the depth of this darkness is Christ, who passed from the world and the flesh that we know into the complete world and the whole man."