he various parts of its mass" (Eliade & Trask 22). Moreover, while "geometrical space can be cut and delimited in any direction," these delimitations have no bearing on man's reality, because "no qualitative differentiation and, hence, no orientation are given by virtue of its inherent structure" (Eliade & Trask 22).
The Bible supports this contention. The passage "For we walk by faith, not by sight" clarifies that it is not what man sees that is real but what he knows by faith (2 Corinthians 5:7, KJV). In other words, his connection with the sacred is what he can trust and therefore what he can "walk" by with confidence, while what he can see in the profane space around him is merely carnal and meaningless because it is subject to change under the power of the sacred. A Biblical clue that explicates this seeming paradox occurs in Hebrews 11:3, which states that "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" (KJV). This passage lends support to the Eliade and Trask hypothesis by providing an explanation for why profane space and objects hold no meaning while sacred ones do-the things that man sees were not made from other things that he can see but instead from
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