Here is what Eugene Webb has to say on the sacred:
[T]he sacred, however it is formulated conceptually, is always apprehended experientially as simultaneously transcendent and immanent, and its transcendent and immanent aspects may serve as poles between which the experience moves. When one pole is more prominent than the other, this will affect the character of the experience. When the transcendent pole dominates, the experience will be characterized relatively more strongly by the sense of terror and of sinfulness; when the immanent pole becomes more prominent the sense of terror and sinfulness will give way to other feelings, perhaps a sense of salvation and forgiveness, perhaps a sense of rebirth and of participation in sacred being. (The Dark Dove, 7)
This rings true.
