then the decision about the whole of life depends on our relation to God’s revelation. Awareness of it is not only a step-by-step progress in the discovery of deeper and more inward realities, but this awareness is the turning point, the pivot, of all perception of reality as such. The ultimate, or final, reality discloses itself to be at the same time the first reality, God as the first and last, the Alpha and Omega.[11] Without God, all seeing and perceiving of things and laws become abstraction,