Man's chief end is not to be saved but to mount up, creatively. There is a difference between the creative idea and the creative act on the one hand, and the product on the other. The creative act is upflight, victory over the heaviness of the objectivized world and over determinism, the product of creativity in culture is a dragging down, a process of settling. Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity.
Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment.
The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time. The splitting apart of the cosmos will not destroy the personal spirit, will not extirpate man's ego, if the human spirit will make heroic efforts to stand firm and create in the new cosmic rhythm. The splitting of the cosmos can only forward the development and confirmation of the true nucleus of the ego. The human spirit is being liberated from the old power of organic material. As though with tongs, the machine is tearing spirit out of the power of material, is breaking the old splice between material and spirit.