The T-Bomb
The number of our conceptions which depend upon the Time-illusion is considerable - and all must necessarily be nonsense. Our notions of birth, death, life itself, survival, rebirth - all are inevitably utter rubbish! And how many more, on which we base our way of 'living', on which we have built our psychical edifice? Realise this, i.e. take away the Time-illusion, and what is left?
A resounding and ubiquitous crash!
In fact, has anyone yet dared to do it?
Attaboy!
The Eternal Present
In Time the Present does not exist, that is it has no recognisable duration and almost certainly no duration of any kind whatever. It separates the 'Past' from the 'Future' in the same theoretical manner as that in which the equator separates the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern, i.e. symbolically. That is, of course, regarded tridimensionally, an the plane of existence or seeming.
Quadridimensionally regarded, the Present eternally IS, for Past and Future are not, or, if you prefer, they are Present, but it has no quality of time, that is no kind of duration or continuity (succession).
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Prophecy
Prophecy, in so far as it exists, can only be vision into a dimension beyond the time-barrier. But the seer does not behold the future, what is to come, but the present, and what is.
One of the greatest difficulties experienced by prophets has always been in placing what they have seen into our illusory time-sequence. What they see may be past or future to us, and how can they tell? They have to guess. Usually I think they are mistaken. It was probably the Trojan War, and they mistook Ulysses for the Kaiser, and Menelaos for Mussolini.
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