Plato's "Symposium" presents the original poverty of humanity("Penia") as gaining the advantage over the intoxicating abundance of culture("Poros") in order to create the unanswerable query/mystery("Eros").

No wonder Friends have difficulty in both identifying and naming The Word Made Flesh. No wonder science scratches its head at the puzzle that is nature and nurture. No wonder the human body, an open-armed image of the cross, is the doubted means to salvation.

"Perhaps" today's Seekers are left with the aporetic approach of Herbert Weir Smyth: "...an artifice by which a speaker(writer) feigns doubts as to where he shall begin or end or what he shall do or say."