“Sacred secularity emphasizes both that God becomes Man and that Man is to be considered a divine being, not so much by means of a descension or ascension as by the fact that they are constitutively related” (El mundanal silencio).
A characteristic of the human being, especially in antiquity, is that of living in the face of the world; he looks toward the heavens and the earth, and on this horizon the divine appears, as Lord, Cause, origin. The divine appears bound to the world and the latter seems to be interpreted as the world of the divine. This is why Panikkar tells us that one of the reasons for the current crisis of spirituality is the “absence of cosmic trust” that is fundamental to all traditional religions (El mundanal silencio). In the non-dualistic conception of reality there is no sacred and profane, rather there is nothing that is not sacred, since all of reality is interrelated. This is the foundation of sacred secularity according to Raimon Panikkar.