absolutely determined by God and the absolute appropriation of our own nature in freedom, which decisively illuminates the horizon of Being and of humanity who live within it. This fundamental metaphysical mystery can be perceived only within the Ontological Difference, because in the systems of identity the (‘perfect’) man necessarily coincides with the ‘will of God’. Fichte glimpses the mystery for which he allows a place between primal life (Ur-Leben) and the Self. Heidegger sees it too in his