ABSTRACT
When Plato says that Love is midway between God and Man, this is not a matter of an equality of distance. The only true bond of friendship is that which unites man to the being who is furthest from him, that is to say God. In the strict and complete sense of the word, man cannot have a friend other than God, and this friendship consists in the mediation of the Son of God between his Father and man. A friendship between human beings either passes through God or is a false and corrupt image of the friendship between man and God. By a marvellous paradox it is with God and not with his like that man can be truly united by a relation of equality. But it is a harmonic equality, an equality which lies in the person of the Mediator. The formula "justice is a number to the second power" is clarified in the same way.
