Numinous is a tern referring to a feeling of the mysterious, all-inspiring, holy or sacred, which is present without reason. The idea is that "Man is born with this perception and is enabled by it to become part of the Divine.
Based on numinous experience
Based on intellectual speculation allied with belief
Based on mystical or yogic experience ...
From these two forces arises the numinous Androgyne. This force exists at the beginning of physical creation, from its parthenogenic fullness it emanates across the Pleroma of the void, and down the Tree to Malkuth.
By itself it is a dead thing, but infuse it with a spark of life and it becomes a numinous and instantly recognisable manifestation of metaphysical evil.
This faculty is hungry to reduce energy to form, numinous to number. As Blake proclaims in The Book of Urizen (1794), it most desires "joy without pain" and a "solid without fluctuation.
The arts, however, have an ability to evoke a sense of the numinous in a seemingly effortless manner, even where the artist is not primarily concerned with mystical ideas.
Indeed, if we work with them with any sensitivity, we will come to recognise that they possess a kind of inner life, a numinous quality.
The symbol of an 'eight on its side' is sometimes known as the and is a symbol for infinity, eternity, the numinous and the higher spiritual powers.
Heretics, artists, poets--there are a lot of ways to attempt to harness these feral children of the numinous, the Fey who are finding themselves among the sleepers...those drawn to Magick.
 See also: Spirit, Ritual, World, Spiritual, Mystic
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