Religion. Transcendental

transcendent, as it presented to an individual or to a tribe. Out of
that encounter an image arises, not unlike the bucking beast en-
gendered by the earthquakes, an image that bridges between the
mystery and the perceiving consciousness. Over time, the ego tends
to privilege its own constructs and confuse them with external real-
ity, or confuse them with the mystery. Our finite sensibility cannot
ultimately know that infinite mystery that has been called God. We
have, however, an experience of transcendence, and call it by the
name God. But what we call God is not the name, not the image,
but the profound energy behind the image, which gave rise to its
numinous charge.