Abstract
The topic of the study is one of the last poetry volumes by Czesław Miłosz entitled The Second Space (Pol. Druga przestrzeń), through which the author of the article looks at the complications of Miłosz’s ambiguous religiousness. It is full of tension and contradictions to which the poet tries to address with various results. Miłosz avoids easy solutions, typical for common faith. The article talks about Miłosz’s longing for the explicitness as a form of protest against evil and terror of this world, a form of protest against its ambiguous dimension, which forces the acceptance of passing, suffering, decay, death. It shows various forms of transgression of the antinomy created by the coexistence of beauty and the cruelty of life (i.a. experience of epiphany) and juxtaposes its specific character of his existential axiology.