ABSTRACT
The discovery of the world of alien cultures and religious convictions has brought scepticism toward one's own faith through comparison. Only half and misconstrued enlightenment leads into nothingness, whereas total and unrestricted enlightenment renders the enigma of the origin really audible for the first time. The great change that introduced the Enlightenment at the end of the seventeenth century, the French Revolution, the equivocal consciousness of crisis and consummation that informed German philosophical idealism, these are steps in our direction, independent of technology. The fact that technology became operative and was universally adopted was due to this spiritual world, this way of thought and of life, which it found waiting for it. In the infinite web of the material and spiritual inter-connections of historical change we can only bring to mind individual threads. The present age is one of real technological and political remoulding, not yet of eternal spiritual creations.
