Mircea Eliade [best]

The customer picked it up. It was cold, impossibly heavy, and smooth.

"Because you are tired of linear time," the Architect said. "You have realized that studying the sacred is not the same as living it. You want to stop the clock. You want to return to the Great Time, the illo tempore ." mircea eliade

The floor did not drop away; instead, it became infinite . The narrow corridor of the shop dissolved. Varna found himself not standing on the splintered floorboards of a Bucharest bookshop, but on a translucent plane suspended in a twilight void. Above him, the sky was a deep, bruising indigo, turning in a slow, majestic spiral. The customer picked it up

Varna hesitated. The scholar in him screamed to return to the library, to write a paper about this experience, to classify it. But the tired soul in him looked at the ugly, linear street of his life and recoiled. "You have realized that studying the sacred is

: Eliade argues that religious man ( homo religiosus ) experiences reality as divided. The Sacred is the realm of the divine and ultimate reality, while the Profane is the mundane, everyday world.