In the second case, the religious symbol ties or binds the self not to the social order but to self-transcendence. In such cases the self is understood not as a mirror of the sociocosmic order but as reality radically open to the infinite.

Among the waltzings, and the droppings, and the swarmings of the sounds, Pierre now heard the tones above deftly stealing and winding among the myriad serpentinings of the other melody: […]

[…] the one who impressed me most [was] a rumba dancer […] known for dancing to the rhythm of Cuban drums in a bikini with silver fringes while somehow circumgyrating at variable and independent speeds, each of her enormous tits […]

In a time of violent religious excitement the transference was easy from fabledom, Teutonic barbarism, &c., to Christian convents.