ABSTRACT
Myth seems to penetrate more deeply than language into the originary-form of time, for it seems able to abide in the originary-form of time and because it grasps the world not as a rigid being but as a constant event — not as a finished gestalt but as an ever-renewed metamorphosis. And from this view, it rises to a wholly universal intuition of time. It is, however, a long way from the ordered sequence of events as such to the pure intuition of time itself and its individual relationships. Even animal life moves in a sequence of activities that are organized in respect to time. The true intuition of time cannot be acquired in a mere retrospective recollection; rather, it is simultaneously a cognition and an act: for the process in which life itself takes on form, life in the spiritual and not in the mere biological sense and that process in which life comes to comprehend and know itself.
