As Long As You Have Not Grasped

Man Becomes Aware Of The Sacred Because It Manifests Itself, Shows Itself, As Something Wholly Different From The Profane.

Psychoanalysis Justifies Its Importance By Asserting That It Forces You To Look To And Accept Reality. But What Sort Of Reality? A Reality Conditioned By The Materialistic And Scientific Ideology Of Psychoanalysis, That Is, A Historical Product.

A Religious Phenomenon Will Only Be Recognized As Such If It Is Grasped At Its Own Level, That Is To Say, If It Is Studied As Something Religious. To Try To Grasp The Essence Of Such Phenomenon By Means Of Physiology, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Linguistics, Art Or Any Other Study Is False; It Misses The One Unique And Irreducible Element In It - The Element Of The Sacred.

As Long As You Have Not Grasped That You Have To Die To Grow, You Are A Troubled Guest On The Dark Earth".

The History Of Religions Reaches Down And Makes Contact With That Which Is Essentially Human: The Relation Of Man To The Sacred. The History Of Religions Can Play An Extremely Important Role In The Crisis We Are Living Through. The Crises Of Modern Man Are To A Large Extent Religious Ones, Insofar As They Are An Awakening Of His Awareness To An Absence Of Meaning.