2003-11-25 06:01:00
My Friends,
Writing a book is about half the work. Promoting it and getting it in distribution is the other half - especially if you are also the publisher.
This is where my spare time has been going lately so I haven't got Book IV started yet, but am getting some things out of the way so hope to start soon.
I have been thinking about the contents and this just may be the best one yet.
Since the subject of time has come up and it is always a fascinating one I thought I would add several thoughts on it tonight.
I have already written quite a bit on it but will try to add a new insight here.
Probably the biggest metaphysical question about time is this.
We are told that there is an "eternal now" where all things happen simultaneously. Is there such a thing, and if it is true how could it be true?
The answer is that there is an "eternal now" of which so many have written, but it does not exist in the three worlds of form. To reach it one must ascend beyond the physical/etheric, beyond the astral, beyond the mental to the formless worlds - where form originates.
It may help to understand what time is. Time is motion. Motion is seen as an advance from one point to another point by a thing which has form. This is the aspect of "distance." The form and distance cannot exist without space. Thus space, form and distance is the Trinity that gives life to time.
All the aspects of this triangle must exist for time to exist.
If motion ceases then time ceases.
If space were to cease to be then time would cease.
If distance could not be found then time would again cease.
Motion, space and distance progress along the trajectory of a spiral. If it were not so time would collapse upon itself and all the visible universe would cease to be.
In our world only one event happens at a time. The past, present and future is not happening at once. Time is as it seems to be. We cannot go into the future and we cannot alter the past.
To get to the eternal now we must leave the land of distances and arrive at a place where "all souls are one" and there is no distance. There is no distance here between souls, places or things.
Motion, space and distance, of which time is composed, springs from the higher worlds and, as form is created, it is done so simultaneously with the end and the beginning being seen outside the boundaries of time. This "idea" of creation then descends into the three worlds of form and manifests as the beginning of the idea which already has both beginning and end.
Upon descending to the physical world an idea takes a beginning, but is projected toward an end which must be. That which happens between the beginning and the end is in many cases unpredictable and subject to free will.
As children of God we evolve toward the manifestation of the idea of that which we are already seen to be. Some of us may take detours that may cost us thousands of extra lifetimes, but we all eventually arrive at the end as seen in the eternal now. While we are trapped in time we have free choice to go forwards or backwards, but all of us eventually "see the idea" and move forward of our own free will to manifest it.
What then of prophesy? Can we accurately predict the future?
A prophet is one who sees the cycles which are steps toward manifesting divine ideas. He who sees the next cycle is a prophet, because the next cycle is the next step which must be taken and will be taken. The next step will be, but our own part in assisting with this next step is dependent upon our free will and thus all events in between creative steps is not possible to predict with 100% accuracy.
What is humanity's next step in the manifestation of the divine idea?
It is to learn to live together in brotherhood, cooperation and love. Can we delay the manifestation of this coming cycle?
Yes.
Can we delay it indefinitely?
No.
This cycle is coming as a tidal wave building in strength and there is no holding it back. Eventually all must yield to it.
"Lead us from darkness to light... from untruth to truth..."
Words from background chorus at the end of Matrix Revolutions
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