The Universe of Universes

12:5.1Like space, time is a be­stowal of Par­a­dise, but not in the same sense, only in­di­rectly. Time comes by virtue of mo­tion and be­cause mind is in­her­ently aware of se­quen­tial­ity. From a prac­ti­cal view­point, mo­tion is es­sen­tial to time, but there is no uni­ver­sal time unit based on mo­tion ex­cept in so far as the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona stan­dard day is ar­bi­trar­ily so rec­og­nized. The to­tal­ity of space res­pi­ra­tion de­stroys its lo­cal value as a time source.

12:5.2Space is not in­fi­nite, even though it takes ori­gin from Par­a­dise; not ab­so­lute, for it is per­vaded by the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. We do not know the ab­so­lute lim­its of space, but we do know that the ab­so­lute of time is eter­nity.

12:5.3Time and space are in­sep­a­ra­ble only in the time-space cre­ations, the seven super­uni­verses. Non­tem­po­ral space (space with­out time) the­o­ret­i­cally ex­ists, but the only truly non­tem­po­ral place is Par­a­dise area. Non­spa­tial time (time with­out space) ex­ists in mind of the Par­a­dise level of func­tion.

12:5.4The rel­a­tively mo­tion­less midspace zones im­ping­ing on Par­a­dise and sep­a­rat­ing per­vaded from un­per­vaded space are the tran­si­tion zones from time to eter­nity, hence the ne­ces­sity of Par­a­dise pil­grims be­com­ing un­con­scious dur­ing this tran­sit when it is to cul­mi­nate in Par­a­dise cit­i­zen­ship. Time-con­scious vis­i­tors can go to Par­a­dise with­out thus sleep­ing, but they re­main crea­tures of time.

12:5.5Re­la­tion­ships to time do not ex­ist with­out mo­tion in space, but con­scious­ness of time does. Se­quen­tial­ity can con­sciou­size time even in the ab­sence of mo­tion. Man’s mind is less time-bound than space-bound be­cause of the in­her­ent na­ture of mind. Even dur­ing the days of the earth life in the flesh, though man’s mind is rigidly space-bound, the cre­ative hu­man imag­i­na­tion is com­par­a­tively time free. But time it­self is not ge­net­i­cally a qual­ity of mind.

12:5.6There are three dif­fer­ent lev­els of time cog­nizance:

12:5.71. Mind-per­ceived time—con­scious­ness of se­quence, mo­tion, and a sense of du­ra­tion.

12:5.82. Spirit-per­ceived time—in­sight into mo­tion God­ward and the aware­ness of the mo­tion of as­cent to lev­els of in­creas­ing di­vin­ity.

12:5.93. Per­son­al­ity cre­ates a unique time sense out of in­sight into Re­al­ity plus a con­scious­ness of pres­ence and an aware­ness of du­ra­tion.

12:5.10Un­spir­i­tual an­i­mals know only the past and live in the pres­ent. Spirit-in­dwelt man has pow­ers of pre­vi­sion (in­sight); he may vi­su­al­ize the fu­ture. Only for­ward-look­ing and pro­gres­sive at­ti­tudes are per­son­ally real. Static ethics and tra­di­tional moral­ity are just slightly super­an­i­mal. Nor is sto­icism a high or­der of self-re­al­iza­tion. Ethics and morals be­come truly hu­man when they are dy­namic and pro­gres­sive, alive with uni­verse re­al­ity.

12:5.11The hu­man per­son­al­ity is not merely a con­comi­tant of time-and-space events; the hu­man per­son­al­ity can also act as the cos­mic cause of such events.