The European Reformation of 1520s disenchanted the Sacraments; from the point of semiotics, what occurred was separation of the representamen from the object. For Weber, it meant one of the “big events” in the process of disenchantment of the world. We compare the disenchantment theory with the theory of “illumination of the spirit” (Cassirer), or with overcoming the “original participation” (Barfield). The evaluation of such an event was formulated by authorized scholars as a minimum of “before” and “after” constituting the unity that distinguishes an event from mere incidents (Koselleck). Such “before” and „after” depend on the construction of possible history by the particular scholar. Hence, for Weber the “after”—of the disenchantment of the Sacrament and “demagicizing” the world in Reformation—indicates a plastic transformation of the culture, whereas in Barfield it may be taken as a mere elastic incident, a divergence of cultural development.