by which we too may transcend the limited realm of the material and finite. Such a relation between the sensible and the intelligible dimensions is best understood, as I.-H. Dalmais has observed, as one controlled by the dialectic of preparation-realization rather than by a strict antithesis between figure and reality.85 Nor do these two dimensions merely sit side by side, independent of one another. On the contrary, von Balthasar has referred to a mutual perichoresis—a reciprocal interpenetration