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     I thank Rodney Daut for his patience and toleration, and
Michael for his sympathy.

     Rodney's question, "where is this heading", has been asked
before. "Wo gehn wir denn hin?" asked Novalis, - and his answer:
"Immer nach Hause." (Always homeward). And where is home? "Nach
innen geht der geheimnisvolle Weg." (The secret path goes
inward.) A sentiment echoed and amplified by Kierkegaard:

     Saaledes protesterer Christendommen mod
     al Objektivitet; den vil, at Subjektet uendeligt
     skal bekymre sig om sig selv. Det, den spoerger om,
     er Subjektiviteten, foerst i denne er Christendommens
     Sandhed, hvis den overhovedet er, objektivt er den
     slet ikke.
                     Concluding Unscientific Postscript I.

     In this manner Christianity protests against all
     objectivity; it demands that the subject should be
     infinitely concerned with himself. What it requires
     is subjectivity; for Christianity's truth, if at all,
     exists only in subjectivity.  Objectively Christianity's
     truth just isn't there.


     What fascinates me about Rodney's preoccupation with
electron consciousness is that the passion with which he pursues
the ultimate objectivation of mind is one more manifestation,
though perhaps a somewhat exotic one, - but who am I to say this,
- of Kierkegaard's postulate that the subject should be
infinitely concerned with himself:

     at Subjektet uendeligt skal bekymre sig om sig selv.


     As for the substantive misunderstanding, I intended nothing
more than to point out that if we choose to find Jesus today, we
must seek him on death row, where he, the innocent emissary of
the divine, awaits execution along with the "Killers" from whom
he is as indistinguishable to us today as Jesus was
indistinguishable in his humiliation from the murderers between
whom he was crucified.


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