Supreme and Ultimate—Time and Space

118:3.1Only by ubiq­uity could De­ity unify time-space man­i­fes­ta­tions to the fi­nite con­cep­tion, for time is a suc­ces­sion of in­stants while space is a sys­tem of as­so­ci­ated points. You do, af­ter all, per­ceive time by anal­y­sis and space by syn­the­sis. You co-or­di­nate and as­so­ciate these two dis­sim­i­lar con­cep­tions by the in­te­grat­ing in­sight of per­son­al­ity. Of all the an­i­mal world only man pos­sesses this time-space per­cep­ti­bil­ity. To an an­i­mal, mo­tion has a mean­ing, but mo­tion ex­hibits value only to a crea­ture of per­son­al­ity sta­tus.

118:3.2Things are time con­di­tioned, but truth is time­less. The more truth you know, the more truth you are, the more of the past you can un­der­stand and of the fu­ture you can com­pre­hend.

118:3.3Truth is in­con­cus­si­ble—for­ever ex­empt from all tran­sient vi­cis­si­tudes, al­beit never dead and for­mal, al­ways vi­brant and adapt­able—ra­di­antly alive. But when truth be­comes linked with fact, then both time and space con­di­tion its mean­ings and cor­re­late its val­ues. Such re­al­i­ties of truth wed­ded to fact be­come con­cepts and are ac­cord­ingly rel­e­gated to the do­main of rel­a­tive cos­mic re­al­i­ties.

118:3.4The link­ing of the ab­so­lute and eter­nal truth of the Cre­ator with the fac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of the fi­nite and tem­po­ral crea­ture even­tu­ates a new and emerg­ing value of the Su­preme. The con­cept of the Su­preme is es­sen­tial to the co-or­di­na­tion of the di­vine and un­chang­ing over­world with the fi­nite and ever-chang­ing un­der­world.

118:3.5Space comes the near­est of all non­ab­so­lute things to be­ing ab­so­lute. Space is ap­par­ently ab­so­lutely ul­ti­mate. The real dif­fi­culty we have in un­der­stand­ing space on the ma­te­rial level is due to the fact that, while ma­te­rial bod­ies ex­ist in space, space also ex­ists in these same ma­te­rial bod­ies. While there is much about space that is ab­so­lute, that does not mean that space is ab­so­lute.

118:3.6It may help to an un­der­stand­ing of space re­la­tion­ships if you would con­jec­ture that, rel­a­tively speak­ing, space is af­ter all a prop­erty of all ma­te­rial bod­ies. Hence, when a body moves through space, it also takes all its prop­er­ties with it, even the space which is in and of such a mov­ing body.

118:3.7All pat­terns of re­al­ity oc­cupy space on the ma­te­rial lev­els, but spirit pat­terns only ex­ist in re­la­tion to space; they do not oc­cupy or dis­place space, nei­ther do they con­tain it. But to us the mas­ter rid­dle of space per­tains to the pat­tern of an idea. When we en­ter the mind do­main, we en­counter many a puz­zle. Does the pat­tern—the re­al­ity—of an idea oc­cupy space? We re­ally do not know, al­beit we are sure that an idea pat­tern does not con­tain space. But it would hardly be safe to pos­tu­late that the im­ma­te­rial is al­ways non­spa­tial.