Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

Eliade used the concepts from The Idea of the Holy as the starting point for his own 1957 book The Sacred and the Profane. Otto was one of the very few modern theologians to whom C. Others to acknowledge Otto were for instance Martin Heidegger Leo Strauss John A.