"... there still remains more for them to say and understand. There are depths to be fathomed in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many recesses containing treasures, and no matter how men try to fathom them the end is never reached... The Spirit reaches the depths of everything, even the depths of God..." says John of the Cross in his Spiritual Canticle, Red B str 36-37 [Breviary, Vol I, p 39*-40*] This mine and the treasure hunting imagery is far less inferior to the fulfillment/pleasure seeking of man and woman in one another in their conjugal relations. And no one has ever exhausted in this search. May be physically one is, but never in his internal quest which we can call spiritual! It is indeed a spiritual search through the medium of the body, a search for the 'being'/soul of the other to lay hold of it, to grasp it to have a grip over it and so on. May be because of this incongruency, where the ordinary men and women fail, the mystics succede!
J.A.T. Robinson's "Honest to God" sheds light on the depth aspect of reality in contrast to the height aspect as in 'Our Father in heaven...'
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