This transformation creates the space of the other necessities for the decision regarding the nearness and remoteness of the gods.
118. The leap
is the extreme projection of the essence of beyng, of such a kind that we place ourselves in what is thereby opened up, become steadfast, and by being appropriated come to ourselves for the first time. For the sake of an essential determination of beyng, however, must not beings indeed continue to play a guiding role? Yet what does "guiding" mean here? The delineation of being as that which in pregiven beings is their most general character would merely be something subsequent to the apprehension. The question would remain as to why and in what sense beings "are" for us. There is always and in advance a projection, and the question is only whether the projecting one as projector does or does not leap into the projected path as it opens up (cf. The interplay, The first beginning). The question is whether the projection itself is experienced and endured as an occurrence out of the event, or whether that which gleams in the projection is merely set back into itself as the emergent (φύσις-ἰδέα) in a self-releasing presentification
Whence the ground of the decision regarding the direction and range of the projection? Is the determination of the essence of beyng subject to arbitrariness or, rather, to a highest necessity and thereby to a plight? But the plight different in each case, according to the era of being and its history; the concealment of the history of being (cf. The resonating, 57. The history of beyng and the abandonment by being).
In the other beginning, what matters is the leap into the fissuring center of the turning of the event in order to prepare the "there" with respect to its grounding and to do so knowingly, interrogatively, and by forging a style.
We can never grasp beings by explaining and deriving them on the basis of other beings. They can be known only out of their grounding in the truth of beyng.
Yet how very seldom do humans advance into this truth. How easily and quickly they make do with beings and thus remain disappropriated of being. How compelling is the appearance of the superfluousness of the truth of being.