|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: equally applicable to both. It is defined in our minds, partly by the
analogy of space and partly by the recollection of events which have
happened to us, or the consciousness of feelings which we are experiencing.
Like space, it is without limit, for whatever beginning or end of time we
fix, there is a beginning and end before them, and so on without end. We
speak of a past, present, and future, and again the analogy of space
assists us in conceiving of them as coexistent. When the limit of time is
removed there arises in our minds the idea of eternity, which at first,
like time itself, is only negative, but gradually, when connected with the
world and the divine nature, like the other negative infinity of space,
becomes positive. Whether time is prior to the mind and to experience, or
|
