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sacrament, that is, a communion with the sacred.
The reader will very soon realize that sacred and
profane are two modes of being in the world, two
existential situations assumed by man in the course of
his history. These modes of being in the world are not of
concern only to the history of religions or to sociology;
they are not the object only of historical, sociological, or
ethnological study. In the last analysis, the sacred and
profane modes of being depend upon the different
positions that man has conquered in the cosmos; hence
they are of concern both to the philosopher and to
anyone seeking to discover the possible dimensions of
human existence. (pp. 1­15)
Any oral man is preferred by Eliade to the desacralized or