Abstract
The paper follows Schelling's later elaboration of the volitional conception of the absolute. In The Ages of the World Schelling ascribes a crucial role to temporal dimensions and presents a system of revelation of the absolute, articulated in three ages: the past, the present, the future.
In this context, the author analyses in detail two spheres of the absolute's self-revelation: (a) the theogonical process, starting with the primal, not yet self-aware will desiring of self-knowledge, and arriving at the self-apprehension only through overcoming the contradiction potential embedded in its nature, and (b) the process of God's inner and outer self-revelation.
