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TIME AND NON-TIMETime is a condition of the manifestation of the relative. Non-time is the absence of manifestation. "There are two forms of Brahman, time and non-time. That which was before the existence of the sun is non-time and has no parts. That which had its beginning from the sun is time and has parts. Of that which has parts, the year is the form, and from the year are born all creatures; when produced by the year they grow, and go again to rest in the year. Therefore the year is Pragâpati, is time, is food, is the nest of Brahman, is Self." - Mait. Upanishad, VI. 15. There are two predicates of God-the Absolute and the Relative. That which is prior to the Higher Self (sun) is the Absolute and Unconditioned. That which proceeds in or from the Self is a series of successive states of the conditioned. The whole series constitutes the Cycle of Life (the year); and from the Cycle and its states are produced all qualities and forms (creatures). These arise when conditions allow of them; they develop, mature, and subside in the Cycle. Therefore the Cycle is the creative aspect of the Supreme, is a succession of states of being, is Truth replacing illusion, is the dwelling place of God, is the Self. "If there never was any beginning to time, then there is no time. If there never was a moment when the first universe sprang into being, then there is no universe at all. To speak of an infinite succession of worlds, or of anything else, is the same thing as to say that there is no succession whatever. Is it not plain that the whole material universe as it enters into our experience now is but the creation of our own consciousness? It is what it is because we are what we are. .. You cannot escape the dilemma. Either your own mentality, your own self-awareness, is unreliable, or the external world is unreliable. I prefer to say the latter -indeed, I cannot help saying it. It is our selfhood that is real, and only that, however little we know about it. The one fact of which we can be sure in all this drift of phantasms is the tiny flame of self-consciousness, the light of the Spirit that derives from himself. It is that which is; all else may come and go, but that abides. Time and space within it, not it within them." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Timeless Affinity. |
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