Humans have always sought to outline their nature. Within the contact of reality our consciousness forms and may find the desire to transcend. We can be understood as a creature split between two conflicting natures: a tension between the flesh and the spirit, the hand and the mind. It is possible to deviate from asceticism and through aesthetics understand ourselves not in opposition but as a dialectical pair perhaps capable of synthesis. Concreteness as a path to the ethereal. And so the human expresses himself through art, field of aesthetic categories. The Sublime is the one that channels this state of tension. The Sublime can be seen as an attempt to express the inexpressible – in its works there is a sense of greatness, reverence, wonder, fear, courage. So in huge architectural structures human tries to touch the beyond but the beyond is not there to be touched, because if matter allows the journey it also limits it. What we find then is not transcendence but overcoming. From the height of the built structure we discover the true measure of our abilities, bypassing ourselves, knowing ourselves. We find expression and authenticity. I study the anguish of the conflicted human and his attempts, through architecture, to reach the Sublime. The Tower of Babel, the Gothic cathedrals, the cosmological revolution, romanticism, the individual restrained in the industrial city, aesthetic regeneration, the society of performance, the end of transcendence, mountains and its temples of crystal contemplation. The search for meaning and our unlikely redemption.