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The Idea of the Holy

Rudolf Otto

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What this book knows

The holy is a non-rational, irreducible experience of the numinous — trembling awe before a mystery that exceeds all concept.

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Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

The 'urgency' or 'energy' of the numinous: vitality, passion, will, force — recurring from the daemonic level up to the idea of the 'living' God.
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Daemonic dread — crudely naive primordial disturbance — later overborne by higher numinous emotion, yet able to break out afresh in the soul.
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An instinctive awe mixed with delight, an indefinable thrill — it would make me shiver from head to foot with the joy and fear of it.
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mind-and-cognition

Music cannot express the holy positively; the numinous moment of transubstantiation is rendered only by sinking into stillness — hearing the silence itself.
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God is the inexpressible, incomprehensible, invisible — surpassing the power of human tongue; no single concept can 'know God exactly'.
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mortality

The soul sinks not into nonentity but into death — cessation of its living function, compared to sleep, to cataleptic lethargy or impotence.
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