Mythology, theology, and philosophy are attempts at an explicit and objective expression and representation of transcendent Being. Mythology tries by an overflowing, ever-changing wealth of tales, figures, and interpretations, by the unfoldment of a knowledge of Transcendence that pervades mundane knowledge and accompanies it. Theology tries on the ground of historically fixed revelation, claiming a rationally based, systematically perfected knowledge of truth. Philosophical metaphysics tries by pondering Transcendence in existence, by thoughts that reach the ultimate origins and limits of existence, turn somersaults, and require present fulfillment by a historic Existenz. In philosophical metaphysics we adopt mythical reality from everywhere and seek to understand what is alien to us in mythology and revelation. The proximity and interpenetration of the three formative spheres serve only to exacerbate their mutual rejection. But even as enemies they remain tied to each other. The unhistoric, ever-recurring typicality of their formations will not let the struggle between them rest—yet no clear fronts can evolve, with the struggle hidden in the individual soul as an irreversible motion.

— Karl Jaspers

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