106. The third eye: Chapter 5 - Time

 

The distinction of time by the ignorant person into past, present, and future is similar to how some languages distinguish masculine, feminine, and which does not fit into either category, the neutral gender. But we know that in universality, there is no such distinction. A human being is neither male nor female, and especially not neutral, so no race nor ethnicity applies in this context. This is because the man is a consciousness matrix endowed with bodily and spiritual memory (the universal duality, space and time, horizontal and vertical) who exists within the transcendent, ever-changing, circular life, in the constant being, the network of energy relations, in the divine matrix. Through their participation, they are able to experience it. In other words, man is the identity of the One and Only. The consciousness matrix is identical with the matrix of the One. 

From this definition, it follows, that for the universal, meaningful, and conscious person, physical time exists—as do other physical sacredness granted to humans, such as the earth, light, water, and air—so that the appropriate physical tools are available for their return to the One. Furthermore, they have been granted spiritual sacredness (tools) such as the other person and human relationships, the attention that operates networking, love, sacrifice, etc. For the man, there is only one universal, endless, created time: the kairos, from which they have received the partial, the chronos, as a sacred gift. Thus, it follows that it is not the man who is in time, but time that is within the man. Since the world and the man are in the eternal One, this means there is no birth or death, only circularity, and no need for resurrection, because what is above, is here below, together in the duality of visible and invisible life. Kairos (as energy) becomes chronos when it takes on a physical, material, and measurable form. 

We often use terms for universal time, for above the chronos, such as “in those days”, “once upon a time”, and “the time is near”. All of these are used because, in universal time, the past, present, and future disappear, and only the NOW exists. This also means that of the dual pair of space and time, time must be fulfilled; it must become space, meaning that relative time must evolve into absolute, boundless, universal time, which is nothing other than creation, revelation. The phrase "in that time", or the time of revelation, marks the moment when time moved from the universal (absolute) time, from the nothing, or rather from everything, into the particular (relative, partial, local) time. In scientific terms, this was the Big Bang, the moment of the "cosmic explosion" when enclosed light and time appeared, which is the result of expansion. Thus, time has continued flowing ever since. In order the measured, partial time to be eliminated, time must be fulfilled, meaning the circularity must close, and chronos must become kairos. The closing of the cycle, the transcendence of time, which religion calls eternal life, is something we can accomplish. It depends on our consciousness. 

Universal time, kairos, has no goal; it does not aim to get from point A to point B. However, moving and changing, relative time has a process, meaning it has a path back. When our Initiation Master says: "I am the way," it is a warning about the possibility of transformation, of the switch from the relative to the absolute, which is possible only in the NOW. Note: When we deal with the properties of time, we are also dealing with the properties of life. Just as relative time and relative life exist in duality, so do absolute time (space) and absolute life (being). It is up to us how we live according to one or the other. 

Thus, our necessary awakening for returning means that we move from chronos (the relative, the physical quantity) into kairos (the immeasurable and infinite eternal life-time, the space-time), from quantity in the quality, from relative in the absolute. Note: The distinction between the two types of time is also found in the Hindu tradition, where the word kala is used for the small, measured time (clock time), while mahakala refers to space or great time. The first refers to physical reality, memory-time, linear beginnings and ends, physical birth and death. The second refers to non-physical reality, eternal time, timelessness, and above-time. Since time is sacred, we have no power over it. 

It is not by chance that we say we cannot turn back the wheel of time. The time borrowed by us at our birth, like all other sacredness, must be returned at our bodily death. There is no "I" time, only "we" time exists. Few people know that time "works" for them, and thus they know the universal time, the transformation, and the awakening. But many people are constantly at war with time, suffering from constant time shortage and crises because they want the appropriate sacred time for themselves in order to dominate others, perhaps to chase profit, such as by founding and running stock exchanges, instigating and ending wars and revolutions. 

Our life should be about applying the sacredness mentioned earlier, not about fears and sufferings operated by our mind and individual self, such as the shortage of time, anger, envy, evil, hatred, etc. It is not about how we, in our ignorance, continuously accumulate material goods and pleasures to make ourselves more comfortable, while at the same time becoming more manipulated, exploitable; more a slave to someone or something than the master of ourselves. Our sufferings, fears, and the diseases arising from our fears are all attributable to linear time, or more precisely, to the time trap we set for ourselves in ignorance—such as stress. Stress is the (physical or emotional) fear experienced by the individual self, such as time scarcity, rushing, etc. which hides the spontaneous, original manifestation of the universal self. 

Let us ask ourselves: why do I suffer from time? Why do I want to live in stress, and why not live in quiet and calm? Why do I push the backstage power chariot, and not my own? Why do I live to the beat dictated by others, and not to my own universal rhythm? Why do I invest so much energy into my unhappiness and so little into my stillness and happiness? We received the time to travel inward, to return to the One, to reach transcendence, and not for fear and suffering or making profit. It is up to us to decide whether we will spend the time we are given in inward travel, in reversing time, in riding it, in making it to disappear and transforming it into space, in happiness, in stillness and in peace. Are we willing to attain the being, timelessness, or give all this up and die under the pressure of time as a crushed material being? What will we use our only life for? 

For science, time is a quantitative factor (chronos), the fourth dimension in classical physics, which is linear and measurable. In the modern conceptual system of quantum physics, in the space-time duality, it is held that when the distance of time increases or decreases, then the distance of space decreases or increases, because space and time can transform into each other. We also know that for objects traveling at the speed of light, time does not exist, meaning "time stops", as in the case of black holes. It is also known that the curvature of space-time gives gravity, and gravity gives mass. 

When religion speaks of creation happening in the nothing and from the nothing—our opinion is that the nothing refers to invisible energy, to everything—then we are not far from what science knows today. Based on this: the origin of our world is the invisible nothing, or rather, everything, because from this "nothing" emerge the infinite possibilities that always exist, are omnipotent, and are not bound by space or time. Space-time is nothing but the patterns of quantum entanglements, where relationships and transformations, spatial and temporal relations, and quantum fields are constantly changing. If time is what prevents transformations from happening simultaneously, space is what enables everything to happen at once. Time is always the moving limitation, while space is the boundless stillness.