What Is the Relationship Between the Existential Self and the Essential Self?

Tillek worries that many of the symbols in Christianity are dying, and that fundamentalism and literalism are an inappropriate way to keep them alive. Protelic symbols have a surplus of meaning; if they're not resonating with moreness, they're not symbols. The essential self beckons the existential self towards fulfillment. It's trying to tempt it out of the world in which it might be existentially trapped.