Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

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 primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.