Schelling's Vocabulary Mythology Analysis

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In the previous section's conclusion, I briefly presented Schelling's account of the Fall. The direct consequence of this event is the beginning of what the German philosopher calls the theogonical process, namely the progress of the mind toward a renewed state of communion with God. Mythology is a part of this process, as the stage of it in which humanity do not perceive and represent all three of the potencies or in any way understand them as divided to some degree in different entities. Thus, in Schelling's vocabulary mythology is a concept which embraces all those religious phenomena and foremostly representations of God that appear on the way lead to the final re-conciliation of humanity with God. Philosophically, Schelling calls this

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