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" "Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different form the profane. To designate the act of manifestation of the sacred, we have proposed the term hierophany. It is a fitting term, because it does not imply anything further; it expresses no more than is implicit in its etymological content, i.e., that something sacred shows itself to us. It could be said that the history of religions — from the most primitive to the most highly developed — is constituted by a great number of hierophanies, by manifestations of sacred realities.
Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.
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"Yet it is worth noting that in this example we never witness a complete desacralization of the world, for in the Far East what is called the "esthetic emotion" still retains a religious dimension, even among intellectuals. But the example of the miniature gardens shows us in what direction and by what means the desacralization of the world is accomplished. We need only imagine what an esthetic emotion of this sort could become in a modern society, and we shall understand how the experience of cosmic sanctity can be rarefied and transformed until it becomes a purely human emotion — that, for example, of art for art's sake."
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De tot ce se întâmplă în lume sunt şi eu vinovat. Pentru că nu sunt un om întreg, nu sunt o unitate armonioasă, sunt un ins dezaxat, fără centru. Probabil că mai sunt şi alţii, zeci de milioane, ca mine. Şi cum pentru societăţile moderne lumea înseamnă tot mai puţin Cosmos şi tot mai multă Istorie, îţi dai seama ce repercusiuni poate avea dezechilibrul acesta interior în afară de noi. Cum am putea fi creatori în Istorie noi, câteva zeci de milioane de dezechilibraţi?