A spiritual path entails reconciliation of opposites, so the tension of opposition. The world, the outside, and self, the inside, unite, even as subjects and objects become one subjectivity. This unity is the wholly communion I refer to, the pure being of Consciousness, innocence. The reconciliation heals the opposition, creating harmony. If the self tries to reconcile the external to itself, the opposition is intensified - self and world, rather than self-world, or inner-outer, for opposition entails resistance. Neither self nor world can affect the harmony, the first innocence. But how this reconciliation? The Whole of which self and world are, this is the arena of reconciliation, not the parts: inner or outer, absolute or relative, subject or object, person or thing, seen or unseen, . . . Life Itself, the Whole, resolves all oppositions, and this is inherent in the Christian metaphor of a new heaven and new earth. All longing for peace among us and any paradise, on Earth or elsewhere, is a longing for reconciliation. Hence, the self needs Grace.