The Great Cosmic Illusion Is A Hierophany....

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.

The Great Cosmic Illusion Is A Hierophany.... One Is Devoured By Time, Not Because One Lives In Time, But Because One Believes In Its Reality, And Therefore Forgets Or Despises Eternity.

The Crude Product Of Nature, The Object Fashioned By The Industry Of Man, Acquire Their Reality, Their Identity, Only To The Extent Of Their Participation In A Transcendent Reality.

For Those To Whom A Stone Reveals Itself As Sacred, Its Immediate Reality Is Transmuted Into Supernatural Reality. In Other Words, For Those Who Have A Religious Experience All Nature Is Capable Of Revealing Itself As Cosmic Sacrality.

Light Does Not Come From Light, But From Darkness.