Abstract: The heir of three unmixed civilizations wants, by anagogy, to reach the inner unity, the limit, indefinite. The first paragraph - numinous - could be illustrated by Jacob's struggle with the angel, Delacroix's painting. The second would like to be bright. But the lived experience cannot be described within the limits of a defined framework. Valéry and Bachelard read Séraphita, a novel of a symbolic rise of two young people animated by a desire for fusion, as are the children of Acem.