experience .1

.(numen) in which man encounters a transcendent being

the mysterium tremendum etfascinans ,a special kind of awe ,In this encounter .2

.appears in man

Otto sought the essence of religion in religious feelings in contrast toattempts .3

.to reduce religion to ethics or dogmatics

rituals and the other aspects of religion have their sourcein ,beliefs ,Language .4

.and must be explained in terms of it ,religious experience

,which is the ultimate truth of all religion has a non-rationalaspect ,The holy .5

thatis only grasped through feeling andit has a rational aspect that isgrasped

.through rational concepts

.The evolution of religion depends on The development of the rationalaspect .6

rational aspect of the ultimate truth of religonand -the numen points to the non .7

-the holy points to the complex complex category comounded of rational andnon

.rational aspects

Arabi and Rudolf Otte it is found that bothheld’ By comparing the views of Ibn

and may beconsidered ,that religious experience plays a pivotal role in religion

although with two differing interpretaions ofreligion ,the essence of religion

Arabi in his descriptions of thestates’ Otto is close to Ibo .and its essence

but their views diverge with regard totheoretical ,mystics and religious experience

There are many ways in which their views are similar withrespect to .matters

.the characteisics of religious experience and their noetic qualities

,intuitions,inspirations ,disclosures ,religious feeling ,religious experience :/Keywords

.mysticism ,gnosticism