@Thanator, thanks for the reply. I pretty much figured we were in accord on the apophatic point, but wanted it made clear for other readers--Goddess knows, I've been approached far too often by Unitarians claiming me for spiritual brotherhood, based on a simple misunderstanding of my beliefs.
That said, there's nothing wrong with having a "need for hand holding/personal projection/humanoid masks" to help focus worship: acknowledging the mask for what it is does not mean disavowing the thing that flows within the mask. It simply means that the mask isn't mistaken for the ultimate experssion of a universal God/Goddess.
My subconscious just reminded me of a quote from a Zelazny novel in which one of his heroes, a priest in an agnostic faith(!), utters a prayer (upon request) that goes something like "Divine Father, Mother, or Whatever Thou Art: please bless us, assuming you care to do so, and always assuming it is within your power to do so, as well, through the goodness of your divine nature, given, that is, that your nature is good, or, indeed, even fathomable..." It was much tighter and pithier in Zelazny, but that gives a feeling of its humorous content. Or to put it another way: the third son grows up, denies the reality of his cruel stepparents, and leaves home, empty-handed; but what kind of faerytale would it be if he was paralyzed forever by the choice of available directions? To know the world (I vowed to kill the next person who used "grok" in my presence, by the way--so consider yourself dead) is to commit to movement within it. Choices imply decisions, though all decisions are ultimately illusory. As you well know.
Now that I've thoroughly confused everybody, including myself, I will once again subside.
