Sentence:  In his major studies, Eliade explains the <WSD>sacred</WSD> and profane as “two modes of being in the world, two existential situations assumed by man in the course of history. . . . In the last analysis, the <WSD>sacred</WSD> and profane modes of being depend upon the different positions that man has conquered in the cosmos." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.