Similarly, when the soul cuts itself off from the world, God is displaced by a figment of the soul itself: the dialogue which the soul thinks it is
carrying on «is only a monologue with divided roles,» (Hasidism, «Spinoza,» pp. 104, 99 f., «
Symbolical Existence in Judaism,» p. 132.)
Perhaps we may say that behind all the objections raised against demythologizing there lurks a fear that if it were
carried to its logical conclusion it would make it impossible for us to speak of an act of God, or if we did it would only be the
symbolical description of a subjective experience.