  It is symbolic construction which, in Weyl’s vision, allows us access to the “objective” world presumed to underpin our  immediate perceptions; indeed, Weyl holds that the objective world,  being beyond the grasp (the “lighted circle”) of  intuition, can only be presented to us in symbolic   form[5].  We can see a double dependence on the Ego in Weyl’s idea of symbolic  construction to get hold of an objective world beyond the mental. For not only is that world “constructed” by the Ego, but the  materials of construction, the symbols themselves, as signs intended  to convey meaning, have no independent existence beyond their  graspability by a consciousness. By their very nature these symbols  cannot point directly to an external world (even given an unshakable  belief in the existence of that world) lying beyond consciousness.  Weyl’s metaphysical triad thus reduces to what might be called a  polarized dualism, with the mental (I, Thou) as the primary, independent pole and objective reality as a secondary, dependent   pole[6].  