The hieroglyphical mode of writing is, according to the explanation we have given of it, a symbolical representation by means of the initial letters of words. In it and through it even that which is the most ordinary and common assumes a mystical character, and passes into this wonderful, imaginative, and emblematical sphere. Now the solution of this general problem lies even in this: that this (_x_)--this incomprehensible (_x_)--as the eternal Logos of the incommensurable Godhead, became also (_a_) (that is to say, took on Him a human life and nature), and is even now fully and really such. For thus the beginning and the initial letter of the whole alphabet of human existence, which was so long wanting, although from the very first it was implied in and was the foundation of the (_b_), was given anew to it by God. And now this (_b_), and every other of the following letters, can attach themselves in due order and connection, be united with it and even be equated to it, and being thus equalized, inasmuch as _x_=_a_, it also becomes capable of apprehending the otherwise unattainable (_x_). And at the same time it can be entirely set free, at once and forever, from the restlessly opposing and destructive (-_y_); since this (_y_), as opposed to the (_x_), is merely a negative quantity, and as such vanishes. But however we may attempt by means of this or any other scientific or figurative illustrations to apprehend or to express the ineffable, the fact, and above all, a living faith in that great verity, that the divine (_x_) has become a human (_a_)--that the eternal Logos actually and really took upon Him the nature of man, and still retains it, is the point from which a new and higher life commences. It is the ring which holds together the whole human family--the first link in the chain of spiritual life, to which all must be referred and from which all is to proceed.