Atonement, "(Literally, a setting at one)" Webster
In sum, we must withdraw from all the extern, pointed wholly inwards; no leaning to the outer; the total of things ignored, first in their relation to us and later in the very idea; the self put out of mind in the contemplation of the Supreme; all the commerce so closely there that, if report were possible, one might become to others reporter of that communion.
Plotinus, Enneads, VI, 9, 7