jarandhel

"Some thirty years ago, when I was in college at Loyola (now Loyola Marymount) in Los Angeles, the university catalogue began with a sentence that bemused and intrigued me, "The Loyola man is a man of two worlds." Over the years, I have wondered about those two worlds, increasingly so lately. Two worlds. What are these two worlds? I no longer remember the rest of what the catalogue had to say. So I am free to define the two worlds in my own terms as the world of the ordinary, the regular, the everyday -- what we mean (perhaps demean) by the term mundane. And another world, the world of mystery, of fantasy, of spirit, and of glory. Sometimes these are distinguished as the outer world and the inner world, or the visible versus the invisible, but these are, I think, mistaken distinctions, because they obscure the very important fact that the two worlds interpenetrate. Or, as the French poet Paul Eluard wisely observed, "There is another world, but it is in this one." Indeed it is the very "coinherence" (Charles Williams's term) of these two worlds that is the source of enchantment. The flat world of the ordinary opens out upon hidden depths; and the intangible world of the mystery takes bodily form. Please note that I am not identifying enchantment with either one of these two worlds; I am asserting that the coinherence of the two is the source of enchantment."
http://www.crosscurrents.org/Raboteau.htm