Also anything else that might be supposed to serve as symbol, like the symbols for the nature of God, can at best elicit only intimations and echoes of the concept; if, however, one insists on employing such symbols for expressing and cognizing the concept, then it is not their external nature which is fit for the task; the reverse relation applies, namely that what in the symbols is the echo of a higher determination is recognized to be such only by virtue of the concept, and it is only by shedding the sensuous standbys that were supposed to express it that one comes closer to the concept.