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Foreword

Introduction

Sample Chapter, "The Celestial Foundation of Time"

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Temporal Parchment

           The term “skin” refers to the lining or envelope in which time resides. Since time is encapsulated or coated with a skin, it is possible for time to remain stable. In the context of human experience, our ability to work within the skin of time makes it possible for us to enjoy a sense of order and continuity in our everyday life. The skin of time is layered, much like the human skin, each layer being built from the interlocking envelope of time that precedes it. Layers are not rigid, but are like sacks of thin, parchment-like creases that stir the consciousness in one direction or the other. For this reason, these layers mirror the variations in the time sequences as they are reflected over a wide stretch of space.

          Matter is related to the skin of time through its underlying buttressing or support matrices which pin time directly to a particular region or situation for the purpose of creation. Matter lives directly on the various skins that time produces, mimicking this layered temporal creation in its own display of physical ingenuity. When we view the natural world, we see matter appearing in distinctive strata of color, shape, and form, each with its own messages of light. The eye picks up these strata and translates them to a type of ephemeral solidity, much as matter translates time from the absolute to its more relative, sandwich-like perspective.

The Simultaneity of Time and Matter

 Time and matter, because they must exist simultaneously, always retain a reasonable degree of fluidity and power. In the context of human life, matter is the end product of our perception. Matter reveals how the world should appear to us, based on the contextual structure we have been born to. In the Western mind, matter is the most solid, the most streamlined, and the most rigid. It retains a type of opaqueness that defies the matter/time layers from which it is originally built. In less disciplined societies, matter maintains its vestigial lining, which is of a degree finer than what we would normally perceive. Matter then coats the inside of the time “capsule” and reveals the essential nature of time itself. The shimmering, wobbly nature of matter that is still imbued with the skin of time forms the backdrop for subtle perception and gives the creation a secondary glow.

Since time and matter rely on a flat plane for their optimal existence, this plane creates a flap or opening through which the time/space continuum can contact its first suspension. Time utilizes the flaps or skin to direct its own self-revealing nature. The skin or flap functions as a channel through which time/space can travel and build the garment that adorns manifest creation. This flap or channel reveals the relationship between time and matter. Time, in its inceptionary state, must court matter, giving it duration, speed, and variability.

Peeling Back the Skin of Time

          The stature of time as an opaque but refined value is always understood as being a product of its skin. In other words, the skin of time peels back to reveal its unmanifest, raw nature, but it must return to the manifest like one would return to a favorite garment. Since time must rely on the slightest tip in the turn of matter to reveal its nature, the light value of time is what creates the luminescent skin of consciousness. We say that time cannot be found in any other component of the absolute except the field of matter that defines it. Matter is not something that becomes opaque automatically; it is the light value of time that creates the fluid shield whereby time can crystallize and create the reality of matter as a solid state.

          As we travel through the events of our everyday lives, the skin of time peels back, and layers of perception, meaning, and opportunity are birthed. We see secondary and tertiary coincidences that tell us that there is an order to things, even if we do not always understand how it has come about. Time beckons us to know the mechanics of our actions through creating a template or skin by which we can understand the nature of our personal choices and concerns.

          When the skin of time peels back, there is an opportunity for the light value of time to create the effulgence that denotes the purer attributes of matter/time. There is no reason for time to peel back other than to reveal matter in this way. As we embark on the journey of our lives, markers or signal points that correspond to the pulse of time present themselves; the skin spins on its edge, creating a furling effect in the folds of time/matter relationship. One can think of these time shapes as opaque, fluid environments in which the edges or circumference of the time variables undergo a twisting, rotary motion. Time spins on its axes, over and over, each time causing the innermost range of its variables to “cook” in the spin. We can say that this flowing, opaque, opulent motion of time is what gives it this edge.

When we cross over the barriers between what we think of as the future or the past, we must push past these temporal shapes, and as we do so, the figurative understanding of our life’s performance is opened out. The time values narrow as they appear before the crisscrossing web that makes up the matter/time continuum. This narrowing gives time its ability to reach past the boundaries of the absolute and take advantage of a myriad of shapes and points of view.

Setting the Time-Clock

          To arrange time in the puzzle of the continuum, the Godforce sets aside certain time variables which are to be contained in the matter/time subset in and of themselves. These variables are dotted or striated, and multiply wed one to the other so that they can be counted as unique. Their role is to trip over the smallest edge that time presents and entertain the past, present, and future. The human mind is the linchpin in this process, creating the value constructs that determine how we break the present into the future. The present is essentially broken apart by our perception and arranged into future parts. These parts are fed to us from another aspect of our own awareness and are arranged simultaneously with our notion of past and present in a continuous stream of parallel formations.

 Time entertains the sense of past by locking in the time variables as they jump over the eaves of matter. Time speeds up, the clock slows down, and the past becomes the past. This diet of old time variables is sustained by the time/matter spread feeding itself on the edges of the time skin, rather than entering the bright, fluid pool in its center. The past edges its way into the opening, becoming birthed as what we know as the past. Of course, there is really no past, only an abrupt simultaneity which can be measured as a psychological backdrop for infinity. There really is no sense of going back or forward when it comes to reading the book of time. Instead, there is an unraveling, a jump-starting, a pulling back or reaching in, much like the dance steps of the absolute. There is no relationship to any sense of past because the time variables always criss-cross over themselves in random but precise intervals, and vary only so much as they themselves desire.

          Since the past is composed of time that has not been thoroughly digested, the present, by contrast, is controlled, variable and speedy. We are happy with the present, because it seems stable and incontrovertible to us. However, when it offers challenges or perceived states of suffering, we immediately try to wiggle out of what it represents. We find ourselves traversing past options of perceived comfort or jumping forward into futures that could on the surface appear brighter and more full of life.

Life in the Present

The irony is that the future itself beckons us to accept, understand, and enter fully into the present, because as we do so, the future that we would find more favorable can actually make its existence more keenly felt. By escaping into regions of the present in which we perceive ourselves to be less bound, we often create chasms of time/space that must be filled in by the spontaneous formation of future/time. We are limited by our illusions of stability even as a simultaneously magical future could be offered to us.

 The past opens into the matter/time continuum, like a bullet seeking to make a foregone trajectory. It appears that there could be nothing but a present option, but actually, there are many presents, many options that could conceivably come about. Time spins along its most favorable trajectory, hitting its mark and creating a stable, reconcilable present. This present value, which makes time appear in the now, is repetitious in character and rebellious in spirit. It never appears the same twice. The newness of time, and the newness of every moment, are brought about as time congeals onto the field of time/matter and creates formations of consciousness that betray the radiance of the absolute.

Time is created through the understanding that each present moment exists as a separate field of influence that can be crushed as the time window opens. This is why, when the present first reveals itself, it is reminiscent of what we think of as the past. There is always a little bit of past in the present, and this is because the variables that confine matter/time to the present are always tainted by a slight glimpse of what was. This creates a feeling of permanent nostalgia, a sense in human beings that there is never anything new. We feel that there the present is never original, but simply a somewhat repetitive version of the now. The remedy to this predicament is that the freshness that makes individuation memorable is not brought about through originality. It is brought about by light.

The Originality of the Future

          It is the light value interweaving with time that makes reality appear to be what it is. Pure time has no originality. It is randomly curving, circuitous, and opulent, but never wholly original. It is the light value in matter that makes reality appear succinct, dichotomous, and available. Since the light value in reality is actually a figurative influence from the Godforce itself, it cannot be trapped by the field of time. It exists independently of time/matter and in a sense independently of God itself. The present is made radiant by this divine light which sheds its rays on everything that makes up the Now. The Now becomes imbued with this presence and it shines out onto the surface of the reality like a mirrored glass.

          The future on the other hand, is wholly prismatic. It has many possible faces, many possible avenues of response. The future is the only part of the time game that is wholly original. It is by its very nature available in any variety for infinite play and self-revelation. The future is the life of the party. Because the future cannot play itself out other than to continually form unusual and interesting shapes and directions, it is considered to be the source of God’s manifest creation. Everything is coming back from the future. Since there is really no past and the present is simply a psychological construct, it is the future that is wholly real. Here the time variables are constantly dancing, making new experimental time/matter “cocktails” and entering a state of unification as they sign off. The future creates the past and the present in a finely interwoven carpet of time/matter/light which is always on the go. This constant sense of motion in the continuum, makes the future the brightest star.

          The future is not random in a true sense. It has a constancy, an order to it, which is arranged by the mind of God. God creates the future and then stores the variables so that they can be arranged as the past and present. God sees to it that these variables are “dusted off,” arranged according to the order of priority, and made available to the trust of time. Since God cannot see any further than the future, neither can we. If there is anything but the future in a psychological sense we do not know what it is.

          When Man thinks of the future, He thinks of the possibilities that will define His reality and give it weight. He lives in the future, and although he wants to be more “present” He is constantly incapable of maintaining any sense of what is. This is because the time variables are constantly spinning out from their center and maintaining optimal future states. Man constantly wishes to engender the past as well. This is because the past appears understandable to the psychological perception of human beings. The past appears to have a constancy, a shape, a size, a predictability. However, this is an illusion. The past does not exist. It is purely a psychological construct.

The future is actually what is truly permanent, because it is ever-changing and unfixable in any direct sense. The mind carves up the future and turns it in to the present and the past. The event streams that regulate the making of the present are susceptible to the outreach of the future. They are interned in the “cistern” of the variable reality. The event streams are taken up, one on top of the other, in a type of layered formation.

          This is where the skin of time becomes prominent. It is through this layering effect, where the skin or coating of time is laid bare, that all of the variable relationships between time, matter and consciousness are made available for scrutiny. Since time and matter are synonomous here, the skin of time peels back and out of this raw, fluid environment, the whole notion of time and its future perception is made clear. Human beings are future beings. They cannot live without a future. They literally feed their minds on the future and open themselves independently to that which will be. That is why to pin them to the present places them in a type of fluid “now” which in a sense is the future. The Now that the sages speak of is actually their cognition of the absolute refined in such a way as the future becomes the Now.

          Since the psychology of Man depends on the future, it also recoils from the past. Man cannot make a life out of the past. Man must undertake the job of reliving the past purely for the purpose of amusement but not as a source of inspiration. Man gets all of the joy of life out of thinking about what will be and how it is to be accomplished. This sense of purpose imbues life with psychological power and resonance. It is time itself that gives life its thrust.

The search for meaning, which defines Man, is in and of itself the search for time. Man tries to find time everywhere He looks, and does not ever give up. This constant drive towards return to the absolute, which gives Man a place in the future, is the reason why God made Man. God utilizes the thrust of time to make Man search for the reason for His own existence. Out of this search, the backdrop for time and consciousness is created. To restore Man to His true state, the sense that time is absolute must also be restored. The turning of time over on itself and investigating its true meaning will free Man and give him the opportunity to develop an optimal future for Himself and His world.

          The future is the state in which Man is free. There He does not rely on physical reality as a statement of His divinity. Instead, He can play in the field of time and give it any possibility to which He can set His mind. The independence of time from the field of matter is Man’s actual birthright, but it cannot be claimed until Man becomes a true futurist. Man must learn to fly on the wings of time, free Himself from fear, and trust in the right-minded adventure of the divine that gives Him room to grow. Out of this, Man lands His freedom and the skin of time is peeled back forever. This destiny gives Man the room to claim victory over His own mortality and over His own sense of impairment. The feeling of being damaged by the act of incarnation is not something that is limited to human beings. All beings that claim a body feel limited by it.

          The past, present and future of embodied entities is limited not by the body but by the sense that the body is imprisoned by the field of time. The body resides in a separate state with respect to time. The body is not made to be timeless or without temporal awareness because it is the nature of the body to be moved forward in “clock time” in order to accomplish the needs of the physiology. It is consciousness that has the capacity to transcend the time values of the body. The notion of a fixed past and present keeps the body dependent on a more rigid definition of time. In the highest sense, the body is naturally nonsolid and unmanifest. It is capable of shifting shape and even dimensionality with response to time. It is due to the fear that we as human beings carry that the body has become so incapable of stretching to fulfill its innate capacities.

The Body of Memory

Bodies exist not to enchain Man but to help him develop memory. The memory capacity of the body is what makes it divine. It gives it the capability to store vast fields of information. The body is like a huge memory envelope in which time can pour all of its known and unknown information. The body exists as an envelope through which time can make all of its essential determinations about the fields of existence. Therefore, when Man is given the cloak of the body, he is also given the possibility of becoming something other than what is human.