Theory / Reality: A doctrinal theory can merely offer points of reference, if only for the simple reason that an expression is necessarily something other than the reality to be expressed. The identity between theory and reality is moreover as unnecessary as it is impossible, precisely because a theory is able to furnish perfectly sufficient points of reference, otherwise there would be no adequate and effectual symbolism, nor consequently any doctrine; it is this which most profane thinkers are incapable of understanding, they who wish to exhaust everything in words, and who imagine that one knows only what one expresses. [GTUFS: ChristIslam, Atomism and Creation]