Schelling (Weltalter) – busca pelo início

But even the eternal, as observed already earlier, is itself only the beginning of the beginning. It is not yet the real beginning. It is like the seed of a plant which, though containing the possibility of beginning the plant, is by no means itself that beginning.

An actual beginning can only come from absolute freedom. In that original unity that conceals everything within it, it is love that pushes toward separation and articulation (Scheidung). But love itself is still only a searching for the beginning, without being able to find it. All of the confusion, all of the chaos that we feel inwardly whenever we seek to learn something genuinely new, arises out of the search for a beginning that we cannot find. To find the beginning is to find the word (76) that resolves all conflict. This holds also for that condition of self-contradiction and internal conflict into which the first existent is thrown by love. This is why it is said: in the beginning was the word.