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• Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his…
• It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that…
• The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes…
• The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils…
• The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent…
• Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A…
• To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood…
• It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because…
• For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for…
• The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
• In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of…
• The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because…

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