...With the failure of the imagination to present form the mind discovers that it has the capacity to conceive of the infinite, and thus has the power to transcend everything that sense can measure and thus present. The sublime feeling in this case arises from the play between the finite nature of the senses and the infinite capacity of reason.
Nicholas Gane, Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Re-enchantment
beauty, deity, sublime, subliminal