kratophany

The term kratophany literally rendered is “the appearance of power.” Mircea Eliade, who made this a technical term in English, used it to indicate an appearance of the sacred in which the experience of power dominates. Thus, that every kratophany must be, at the same time, a hierophany (“appearance of the sacred”) is certain by definition, while the converse is less clear; indeed, assent to it will hinge upon the degree to which one regards the concept or experience of power to be an irreducible part of the concept or experience of the sacred.

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A numinous charge is the awe-inspiring wonder that one feels in the presence of ‘other-ness.’ An object is numinous to the degree that it reflects the unrepresented background of our perceptions, so that you or I can imaginatively see something of ourselves, something we do not ordinarily have a name for or an image of, made objective in it.

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We experience soul’s announcement of itself in all things as the spark of the numinous. An object with sufficient numinous charge can stop time.