Thelema & Otto's Idea of the Holy
...one is likely to adopt the attitude called "creature-consciousness" by Otto - that feeling of absolute nothingness in the face of this greater power. It is both the ineffable, or non-rational, and amoral. It is one thing to call a man holy, obviously based on his behavior (and that which we condone to be 'moral') and quite another to call an experience holy wherein we perceive something of immense...
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