I'm currently reading Borella's *Christ The Original Mystery*. I am only three chapters in, but I'd say it's the best work on philosophy of religion that I've ever read. This man is brilliant. His views on what esotericism *is*, and the triune hermeneutic, are changing the way I look at reality. If I meant anything by the statement you referred to, it's that what you've said here is itself part of a hermeneutic, a process or a journey if you will. One thing Borella stresses in this work is that we are all both 'within' and 'without' (esoteric and exoteric) at the same time, but not in the same relationship. Meaning there is always a deeper way of moving into the revelatum. I think, for myself, it's that process of coming closer to the essence of the revelation which is the essence of Christianity. I think it is certain that the body, as the existing church itself has an essence. Again, that's certain. But I was speaking more about this concept Christianity itself and its popular usage as a noun - I believe the essence of Christian*ity* is a trifold and active process - of revelatum, esotericism, and exotercism - where Borella identifies the latter two as a relation. One is always moving inward to the revelation, which is the only thing that defines the exoteria. The revelation, in other words, cannot be identified formally with any specific level, least of which is a definite exoteric level. He very much stresses this irreducibly triune process that connects man's soul to the revelation.