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Time as a Spiral

Time is a spiral through Eternity.

“The temporal realm is the realm of action in the now. The "now" of time processes forward in a helix at the circular periphery of the cosmos, which is itself moving in time. This action occurs within the passive receptacle of the spatial realm, which cannot be apprehended from an active position. Conceptual representations of space like horizons and orthogonal lines, which depend on changes in position and therefore time, are illusions. You can never actually be at the convergence of the receding lines of railroad tracks.

Pure “here" and "there" are the only positions possible in the appreciation of space, which is free of time and movement. In fact, in order for movement to occur, space must be divided. Or to put it another way, as soon as you divide space, you create movement.

Temporality and spatiality are actually a unity, although the best way to sense either is in the relative absence of its inverse. When you disengage from time you apprehend space, and when you disengage from space you apprehend time. However, in the bigger picture, the appearance of both space and time point to a higher, cosmic reality, which is beyond the temporal and the spatial.”

From “The Essential Paul Laffoley” (2016). P. 52

“The whole of life goes around in circles and returns upon itself, but never to the same spot. Do you not know the Law of the Spiral in Nature and the Universe?

Each time you come to a point which is comparable to some other, you have comparable difficulties, but with a different rhythm, and with the experience gained before.”

From “The Opening of the Way” by Isha Schwaller de Lubicz (1979) P. 172