the numinous:
both god and demon.

"Wherever the psyche is set violently oscillating by a numinous experience, there is a danger that the thread by which one hangs may be torn.

Should that happen, one man tumbles into an absolute affirmation, another into an equally absolute negation.

The numinosum is dangerous because it lures men to extremes, so that a modest truth is regarded as the truth and a minor mistake is equated with fatal error."
Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.