there is sound, then different sounds and then we hear the different sounds singing together in a dance of sound.… In the authentic symphony, all the instruments are integrated in a whole sound.”17 The Figure of Revelation can unfold fully only in the whole of space, the “space between heaven and earth, God and world, Old and New Era.” Balthasar continues: “If, in order to be able to unfold, the figure requires such breadth from the beholder, then the latter must allow himself to be stretched until