postmodern sacred and icons

The mergence of the divine and the profane orients itself towards the profane. What this means is that there is here a greater resemblance of the divine to the profane than the other way round. The abyss below being refers precisely to a nothingness or rejection of being. It is a point destitute of everything where being has not yet come to be or is no longer. The divine blurs with the profane in becoming an impersonal alterity that divests existence of all meaning imaginable. It is overall the nature of the scatological domain that defines the sacred reality. The divine, in its extreme alterity, loses itself to the abyssal state. In fusing with the profane, however, the divine also divinizes it. The profane takes up some of the qualities which are occasionally inherent in some experiences (often mystical) of the radical transcendence of God. It inspires an irreducible sense of fascination, dread, sometimes even veneration in the subject. The scatological assumes the momentousness, the awe, and the horror that are prevalent in some transgressive divine experiences.