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God” meant to a believer. It was not the God of the
philosophers—of Erasmus, for example; it was not an idea, an
abstract notion, a mere moral allegory. It was a terrible power,
manifested in the divine wrath.” Eliade then explains his project:
“The aim of the following pages is to illustrate and define this
opposition between sacred and profane.” Sensing that “the
modern Occidental experiences a certain uneasiness before
many manifestations of the sacred,” as when, “for many
human beings, the sacred can be manifested in stones or
trees,” he proposes to show why man “of the archaic societies
tends to live as much as possible in the sacred or in close
proximity to consecrated objects”:
Our chief concern in the following pages will be to
elucidate this subject—to show in what ways religious
man attempts to remain as long as possible in a sacred