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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

"The idea of the Holy" by Rudolf Otto,1917


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Holiness is the quality unique to religious experience ;
the presence of the numinous,that which is holy,
is universally experienced as a kind of fearful awe in the presence of the mysterious.
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The numen,the divine,must be known through the religious feeling ;
but the feeling itself cannot be described.
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In the presence of the holy the human being is aware of his own nothingness,
and with the feeling of creature-consciousness he becomes aware of the wholly other,
that which overpowers while it charms.
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The absolute distinction between numen and creature is overcome by God's grace.
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