ABSTRACT
Historical myths have a profound significance for the act of remembrance. The 'historical' and the metaphysical can never be identical to a purely abstract Aryan consciousness or monism. The Persians were the only Aryan people to become aware of the 'historical', and this was due to the nature of their religious consciousness in which the eschatological element plays an important part. Pure monism is essentially anti-historical and has always tended to deny both human freedom and the irrational freedom of evil as the religious and metaphysical a priori of history. The metaphysics of history, which ought to be our goal, does not consider history as an object, as an exterior object of cognition, as a mere manifestation of the exterior world of objects. The metaphysics of history approaches man's destiny from the standpoint of the inner intimacy and union subsisting between his celestial and terrestrial destinies.
