Sacraments

I've been reading Bullinger's Decades. Written in Shakespeare's day. Look at this paragraph on sacraments:

"The ancient writers therefore applied this word symbol to our sacraments, because they represent and show us the exceedingly great and deep mysteries of God. They are allegorical and enigmatic, hard and dark to understand. And lastly, by the institution of his sacraments, the Lord himself has bound himself to us; and by partaking them, we in turn bind ourselves to him and to all the saints, testifying and openly professing to fight stoutly and valiantly under the Lord's banner."

The deep mystery of the sacraments is this: to be given by the Holy Spirit to see them as the two conscious shocks: Conscious Labor, Intentional Suffering. Let's not be fearful of going with what we've come to learn. 

As for Church, it too has higher meaning once you make contact via the two conscious shocks.