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it is the rebirth of a new existence, a new world, and a new spiritual being from that knowledge. Based on these, two interconnected moves can be observed in parallel, one of which is a production, a creation, with which a perceived world on a phenomenal level is created; while the second movement is getting to know, to learn, this world, that is, reproduction. God created the world and then made it real to himself through Christ. This is presumably what was said in the Tübinger Stift when Hegel and Hölderlin were students there. We also find in the logical example previously discussed a process of creation and cognition side by side. Being created is not sufficient in itself for cognition. Creation is fulfilled in cognition and claiming, which, at the same time is also a re-production, in every sense of the word. In this way that which would merely lie before us as dead material comes to life and lives. The dialectic of remembering and forgetting plays a prominent role in the question of identity, and it also demonstrates well how the Greeks thought about memory. The Greek goddess of remembrance is Mnemosyne. After nine nights of lovemaking with the lustful king of the gods, she gave birth to nine girls of the same nature. These became the muses. Of this Hesiod writes, Mnemosyne “who rules Eleutherai’s hills. She bore them to be a forgetting of troubles.” (Hesiod: Theogony. 54-55.) But Mnemosyne was also the name of one of the rivers of remembrance in the underworld, which was the pair of the Amelés potamos (river of unmindfulness). The dead souls had to drink from the water of the river of Lethe, which is called the Amelés, to forget at birth what had happened in on the plain of Lethe, so that they would not remember what fate they chose, as Plato describes in the last book of the Republic. (Rep. 614.a, 621.b.)’" Only the initiated had the privilege of drinking not from the River Lethe but the River Mnemosyne after their death. 21 This is referenced in the Myth of Er in the last book of Plato’s Republic. He describes that souls reincarnating from Hades first choose a fate, and then they must drink from the river Amelés, which separates the fields of Lethe from the earthly world, upon which the souls forget everything.
