So, what is Voegelin talking about in Order and History?
“[Human] experience has a dead point from which the symbols [of ultimate values] emerge as the exegesis of its truth but which cannot become itself an object of propositional knowledge. …… Unless precautions of meditative practice are taken, the doctrinization of symbols is liable to interrupt the process of experiential reactivation and linguistic renewal.”
Eric Voegelin, Order and History, Vol IV, p. 105: