"Yet he who traverses and is able to stand in the middle, at the almost utopian yet infinitely near point from which the living source addresses him as a simultaneous manifestation, is redeemed and is himself a redeemer. For here, the situation is simple: it is simply a question of going through the plane, nothing is needed but a virtual displacement and transformation into substantiality, the border of which was the very symbol which always belongs to its object."


Scholem, Tagebücher, 2:685. On this text and its variants, see Peter Schäfer, ‘‘Die Philologie der Kabbala ist nur eine Projektion auf eine Fläche: Gershom Scholem über die wahren Absichten seines Kabbalastudiums,’’ Jewish Studies Quarterly 5 (1999): 1–25. Sourced from http://jqr.pennpress.org/PennPress/journals/jqr/JQR200602003.pdf