[Randolph] Otto uses, as C.S. Lewis did later, the term numinous to describe this quality of the fear. The numinous experience is made up of an overwhelming sense of one's creaturehood, such that one experiences a "submergence into nothingness before an overpowering absolute might." Other elements are what he calls, Mysterium Tremendum which is not "that which is hidden and esoteric, [but] that which is beyond conceptual understanding, extraordinary and unfamiliar."
John White, When The Spirit Comes With Power, p. 86-87
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