Schelling's Weltalter project's core concept of "eternal time" seems to be merely a reintroduction of the ancient Aeon and Scholastic Aeviternity (Aevum). It lies between purely unchanging eternity and worldly sequential time: it embraces change yet lacks sequentiality. Oddly, German Idealist scholars seem to rarely mention this. Incidentally, the project itself was influenced by Baader, whose view is quite simple: creation is not initially corrupt, but rather corrupted by human fall. However, this fall occurs within an eternity, because God could not directly create corrupt creations; that would lead to Gnosticism or Hegelianism.
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