History is temporal opening up of the space of sustainment.
"Time" and "space" are here to be thought in terms of being as commencement, from rapturous removal and clearing and from the essence of truth, accommodating spacing as granting the jointures of de-cisions.
History as the history of beyng does not mean a sequence of occurrences to which beyng falls prey (not that which "happens" to beyng), but rather that which beyng as such essentially opens for itself, insofar as it is the abyssal ground of "truth"-of its essence and corrupted essence.
Only the history opened up in its essence by beyng, and indeed already in the manner of a first commencement, then becomes the history of beyng in the sense that it casts itself forth into moments of temporalization, singular and rare moments.
The essential prevailing of history opened up in its essence by beyng is the grounding of the truth of beyng.
That into which beyng (essentially) bestows itself is impoverishment into that poverty entrusted with its simplest wealth.
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The history of beyng to the beyng of history.
The commencement as refusal.
The other commencement: bestowal into impoverishment unto poverty.
History first is as grounding of the truth of beyng, a grounding first appropriated by beyng.
If, however, history is, and whenever history first is, then the appropriation of beyng occurs as appropriative event. Da-sein, and it alone, happens, prevails in its essence as appropriated in the event, in temporalizing ground and site and guardianship for the event of appropriation.
(The essence of history cannot be deduced from a "happening," from occurrent events or the accomplishment of actions, but is determined in terms of the event of appropriation as the essence of history, that is, as that which is in the first instance openly appropriated.
Beyng and its essencing decides regarding the essence of history.)
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The history of beyng, as soon as this history brings itself into its essential grounding, is the axial site in whose field the priority of beings