“Eternity loves time production”
- ghayasosseiran77
- Oct 3, 2023
- 2 min read
William Blake once wrote “Eternity loves time production”. All of creation is classically thought of as being in time, and by the ancients as being merely accidental to Eternity, The One, The Prime Mover, the Good, Nous, whatever you call that final bright door towards which and from which material reality originated from, where all the roads and the River begins, and where they all End. When we’re absorbed in an experience, in a view, in a state of flow playing video games or tennis maybe, when you fall into a kiss, time seems to stand still, or fly by. Relative to you, your experience of time is either accelerated or slowed down. The stronger the gravitational pull the more space-time curves, when we lose ourselves in a moment or in play, maybe even with a person, we can literally lose our sense of time, and space for that matter. For Kant space-time is merely a function of our sensibilities, filters we experience the world through. When we lose our sense of Self, we can also experience the world with a muted sense of time and space. Picture a kid losing all sense of time or where they’re even at after spending the last 3 hours setting a new high score at the local arcade. In moments like these we find stillness with the Eternal mover that watches from outside our space-time, from the outside in. Eternity and temporal ‘reality’ are happening at the same time, in parallel, “here and now’, except for Eternity 'here and now’ don’t really make sense. General and special relativity, and to be honest Al-Ghazali is in his Incoherence of the Philosophers hundreds of years before Einstein, showed that ‘here and now’, up and down, left and right, past and future, 3 or 4 dimensions, these tools that participants in the cosmos use to situate themselves, don’t make sense without an observer to give these relative positionalities substance. We can situate the earth in space relative to the Sun, ourselves in time relative to the frame of time we extend personally, civilizationally or even cosmically. Time in itself on other hand, doesn’t keep tabs on itself, nature-in-itself, doesn’t keep one absolute clock to rule them all; Eternity doesn’t care. The other side of Time probably thinks we’re still and they’re the Ones in motion. I mean with a capacity to create a whole ass Universe like THAT! They must be bussin some moves on the other side of Time, watching the historical whole of this cosmos, its life, our lives, like frames in a movie, or words in a finished Book, projected on pages of Non-Being.
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