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being:

or the become, always founded on becoming, sequentially coming after becoming

 

becoming:

Goethe (and Spengler) posits this as elemental, and not a state of being (such as endless actuality or action, a condition such as velocity)

 

proper:

feeling, the inner life  (this consciousness is established from intuitive certainty)

 

alien:

perception, the life of sensation (again this consciousness is established from intuitive certainty)

Decline of the West, Chapter II: The Meaning of Numbers
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