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The Conceptual Category towards which the numinous consciousness is directed is the mysterium tremendum.

Tremendum (adjective category of mystery)
Tremor: vibratory motion, systemic stress (experienced as fear/flight in living systems), shaking of the body (system) or one of its parts (subsystems).


 * The element of Awfulness (the absolute unapproachable)
 * The Numen stirs in the feeling of something uncanny, eerie or weird. This feeling of awe emerging in the minds of primeval humans forms the starting point for religious evolution. The Numenous evokes a bipolar feeling of awe (greatness) and fear: to run away or to fell down in praise (to flee or subject – fight) Because it is overwhelming and inexperienced it evokes a feeling of unpredictability, hence “wrath of god”
 * The element of Overpoweringness (Majestas)
 * In contrast to the overpowering of which we are conscious as an object over against the self, there is the feeling of one’s submergence, as being nothingness, forming the basis for the feeling of humility.
 * The element or energy or Urgency
 * The system tension is clothed in symbolical expressions of vitality and activity: the system possesses a force that knows not stint nor stay, which is urgent, active, compelling, and alive.

Mysterium, the substantive

 * The Wholly Other
 * The Numen is alien to itself, unexplained, undifferentiated.
 * The element of fascination.
 * The consciousness of the Numenous has a dual character: it stir fear – and fascinate. The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own.