Hegel and Schelling, as we have seen, attempted in a way to separate Geschichte, history, from Geschehen, what happens or becomes in itself. Heidegger seems, on the contrary, to link them back together. Geschichte indicates a Geschehen, “becoming” or “happening,” whose original meaning Heidegger sometimes traces back to Luther, in whom we find the word in the feminine as die Geschichte or die Geschicht, but much more frequently in the neuter, das Geschicht. In this sense Geschicht is göttliche Schickung, divine dispensation; Heidegger hears Geschicht as Luther does: as if deriving, if not from God, at least from a Geschick, a “dispatch” of which man is at best the recipient, and of which he must acknowledge receipt—of which he is even a Schicksal, a fate or a destination. What is truly geschichtlich, historial, is by that fact geschicklick, “destinal” or “epochal.” (BCDU)