personal being of Christ (and hence the personal being of others in Christ). So we must return to our point of departure. All the empirical approximations we use to try to describe the characteristics of the conscious subject within a species (man) are inadequate. Only God can define and designate such a subject in his qualitative uniqueness. And in the one, sole, archetypal instance,49 it is God who defines who this Subject is and why he is there; it is he who sets forth the meaning, the task, the