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The author in his article approaches and confronts metaphysical threads of conceptions authors mentioned above. It deals with some fundamental questions of aesthetics and widely comprehended philosophy: symbolization, metaphysical experience and symbolic participation. Apart from drawing a comparison between Ingarden’s metaphysical qualities and metaphysical feelings of Witkacy one can f ind here considerations concerning an event of epiphany and its metaphysical derivative – metaphany (this term was constructed and def ined by the author of the article). In this context it is proper to notice the analysis of basic symbolic senses: the vertical, the depth, the surface. At the end, the author sketches the universal structure of reality in which is situated metaphanical subject, i.e. the subject experiencing metaphysical epiphany.