being and by its question-worthiness in the establishment of assurance in beings. In appearance, the averting of the unavoidable succeeds in the unstoppable expansion of the domain of calculating and arranging, an expansion out to all beings. But the whole of the calculable is not the sum total of the calculated nor even the product of what is without remainder, as posited in calculation by way of anticipation. The whole of the calculable is the incalculable itself, even when this latter is thought only with respect to the original whole of the calculable. The compulsion toward totality is the law of the inevitability of what is unavoidable. The expansion of the unavoidable into the manifold signs of its advent is only one of the forms in which it illuminates its already appropriated nearness in the whole. The fact that calculation thinks in terms of succession means that what it has not yet grasped, or what escapes it, is pursued in steps and as occasion offers. The unavoidable, however, has already eventuated. It cannot be explained from circumstances and incidents. The removal of these can never drive away the unavoidable. The pursuit of assurance in deliverable beings suppresses unknown being and furthers indeed, contrary to knowledge and will, that which is rebellious against the will to willing. The erecting of order in beings does specifically avert unknown being and, contrary to knowledge and will, brings into consideration the signs of the nearness of being. At times, when the conditionless dominance of the will to willing compels its executors to act against themselves, in that they unveil the signs of that which is unavoidable, by the very fact that they cover over these signs, there must then be prepared in the essence of being itself the shift whereby the concealed event abandons the dispropriation of beings from the truth of being and releases the consignment into the grounding of the truth of being. This event-related shift in being, whereby being twists itself free into the beginning, is the historical origin of the transition from the first to the other beginning. This transition shows itself first in the configuration of the overcoming of the episode in the history of being, and it is as this episode that the essence of metaphysics becomes evident. What is unavoidable constitutes the sign of the event.
115. The demise of metaphysics; the transition
The demise of metaphysics is not a particular incident, on the heels of which the transition to the other beginning then follows. Quite to the contrary, the beginning eventuates inceptually, and this eventuation is the overcoming of metaphysics, and this overcoming is the transition. The demise and the transition pass each other by; according to the law