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118:1.1 It is helpful to [[man]]'s [[cosmic]] [[orientation]] to [[attain]] all possible [[comprehension]] of [[Deity]]' s [[relation]] to the [[cosmos]]. While [[absolute]] [[Deity]] is [[eternal]] in [[nature]], [[the Gods]] are [[related]] to [[time]] as an [[experience]] in [[eternity]]. In the [[evolutionary universes]] [[eternity]] is [[temporal]] everlastingness—the everlasting [[now]].
118:1.2 The [[personality]] of the [[mortal]] [[creature]] may eternalize by [[self]]-[[identification]] with the [[indwelling spirit]] through the [[technique]] of [[choosing]] to [[do the will of the Father]]. Such a [[consecration]] of [[Free will|will]] is tantamount to the [[realization]] of [[eternity]]-[[reality]] of [[purpose]]. This means that the [[purpose]] of the [[creature]] has become fixed with regard to the [[succession]] of [[moments]]; stated otherwise, that the [[succession]] of [[moments]] will [[witness]] no [[change]] in [[creature]] [[purpose]]. A million or a billion [[moments]] makes no [[difference]]. [[Number]] has ceased to have [[meaning]] with regard to the [[creature]]'s [[purpose]]. Thus does creature [[choice]] plus [[God]]'s choice [[eventuate]] in the [[eternal]] [[realities]] of the never-ending [[union]] of the [[Thought Adjuster|spirit of God]] and the [[nature]] of man in the everlasting [[service]] of the [[children]] of [[God]] and of their [[Paradise Father]].
118:1.3 There is a direct [[relationship]] between [[maturity]] and the [[unit]] of [[time]] [[consciousness]] in any given [[intellect]]. The time unit may be a day, a year, or a longer period, but [[inevitably]] it is the [[criterion]] by which the [[conscious]] [[self]] [[evaluates]] the [[circumstances]] of life, and by which the conceiving [[intellect]] [[measures]] and [[evaluates]] the [[facts]] of [[temporal]] [[existence]].
118:1.4 [[Experience]], [[wisdom]], and [[judgment]] are the concomitants of the lengthening of the [[time]] [[unit]] in [[mortal]] experience. As the [[human]] [[mind]] reckons backward into the [[past]], it is [[evaluating]] past [[experience]] for the [[purpose]] of bringing it to bear on a [[present]] situation. As [[mind]] reaches out into the [[future]], it is attempting to [[evaluate]] the future significance of [[possible]] [[action]]. And having thus reckoned with both [[experience]] and [[wisdom]], the human [[Free will|will]] exercises [[judgment]]-[[decision]] in the present, and the [[plan]] of [[action]] thus born of the [[past]] and the [[future]] becomes existent.
118:1.5 In the [[maturity]] of the [[developing]] [[self]], the [[past]] and [[future]] are brought [[together]] to [[illuminate]] the true [[meaning]] of the present. As the [[self]] [[matures]], it reaches further and further back into the [[past]] for [[experience]], while its [[wisdom]] [[forecasts]] seek to penetrate deeper and deeper into the [[unknown]] [[future]]. And as the conceiving [[self]] extends this reach ever further into both [[past]] and [[future]], so does [[judgment]] become less and less dependent on the momentary [[present]]. In this way does [[decision]]-[[action]] begin to [[escape]] from the fetters of the moving [[present]], while it begins to take on the aspects of [[past]]-[[future]] significance.
118:1.6 [[Patience]] is [[exercised]] by those [[mortals]] whose [[time]] [[units]] are short; true [[maturity]] [[transcends]] patience by a [[forbearance]] born of real [[understanding]].
118:1.7 To become [[mature]] is to live more [[intensely]] in the present, at the same time [[escaping]] from the [[limitations]] of the [[present]]. The [[plans]] of [[maturity]], founded on [[past]] experience, are coming into [[being]] in the present in such [[manner]] as to enhance the [[values]] of the [[future]].
118:1.8 The [[time]] [[unit]] of immaturity [[concentrates]] [[meaning]]-[[value]] into the present [[moment]] in such a way as to [[divorce]] the present of its true [[relationship]] to the not-present—the [[past]]-[[future]]. The time unit of [[maturity]] is [[proportioned]] so to [[reveal]] the [[co-ordinate]] [[relationship]] of past-present-future that the [[self]] begins to gain [[insight]] into the [[wholeness]] of [[events]], begins to view the [[landscape]] of [[time]] from the [[panoramic]] [[perspective]] of broadened [[horizons]], begins perhaps to suspect the nonbeginning, nonending [[eternal]] [[continuum]], the [[fragments]] of which are called [[time]].
118:1.9 On the [[levels]] of the [[infinite]] and the [[absolute]] the moment of the present contains all of the [[past]] as well as all of the [[future]]. [[I AM]] signifies also I WAS and I WILL BE. And this [[represents]] our best [[concept]] of eternity and the [[eternal]].
118:1.10 On the [[absolute]] and [[eternal]] level, [[potential]] [[reality]] is just as meaningful as [[actual]] [[reality]]. Only on the [[finite]] level and to [[time]]-bound [[creatures]] does there appear to be such a vast [[difference]]. To [[God]], as [[absolute]], an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal] who has made the [[eternal]] [[decision]] is already a [[Paradise]] [[finaliter]]. But the [[Universal Father]], through the indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]], is not thus [[limited]] in [[awareness]] but can also know of, and [[participate]] in, every [[temporal]] [[struggle]] with the [[problems]] of the [[creature]] [[ascent]] from [[animal]]like to [[God]]like [[levels]] of [[existence]].
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[[Category:Paper 118 - Supreme and Ulitimate-Time and Space]]
118:1.1 It is helpful to [[man]]'s [[cosmic]] [[orientation]] to [[attain]] all possible [[comprehension]] of [[Deity]]' s [[relation]] to the [[cosmos]]. While [[absolute]] [[Deity]] is [[eternal]] in [[nature]], [[the Gods]] are [[related]] to [[time]] as an [[experience]] in [[eternity]]. In the [[evolutionary universes]] [[eternity]] is [[temporal]] everlastingness—the everlasting [[now]].
118:1.2 The [[personality]] of the [[mortal]] [[creature]] may eternalize by [[self]]-[[identification]] with the [[indwelling spirit]] through the [[technique]] of [[choosing]] to [[do the will of the Father]]. Such a [[consecration]] of [[Free will|will]] is tantamount to the [[realization]] of [[eternity]]-[[reality]] of [[purpose]]. This means that the [[purpose]] of the [[creature]] has become fixed with regard to the [[succession]] of [[moments]]; stated otherwise, that the [[succession]] of [[moments]] will [[witness]] no [[change]] in [[creature]] [[purpose]]. A million or a billion [[moments]] makes no [[difference]]. [[Number]] has ceased to have [[meaning]] with regard to the [[creature]]'s [[purpose]]. Thus does creature [[choice]] plus [[God]]'s choice [[eventuate]] in the [[eternal]] [[realities]] of the never-ending [[union]] of the [[Thought Adjuster|spirit of God]] and the [[nature]] of man in the everlasting [[service]] of the [[children]] of [[God]] and of their [[Paradise Father]].
118:1.3 There is a direct [[relationship]] between [[maturity]] and the [[unit]] of [[time]] [[consciousness]] in any given [[intellect]]. The time unit may be a day, a year, or a longer period, but [[inevitably]] it is the [[criterion]] by which the [[conscious]] [[self]] [[evaluates]] the [[circumstances]] of life, and by which the conceiving [[intellect]] [[measures]] and [[evaluates]] the [[facts]] of [[temporal]] [[existence]].
118:1.4 [[Experience]], [[wisdom]], and [[judgment]] are the concomitants of the lengthening of the [[time]] [[unit]] in [[mortal]] experience. As the [[human]] [[mind]] reckons backward into the [[past]], it is [[evaluating]] past [[experience]] for the [[purpose]] of bringing it to bear on a [[present]] situation. As [[mind]] reaches out into the [[future]], it is attempting to [[evaluate]] the future significance of [[possible]] [[action]]. And having thus reckoned with both [[experience]] and [[wisdom]], the human [[Free will|will]] exercises [[judgment]]-[[decision]] in the present, and the [[plan]] of [[action]] thus born of the [[past]] and the [[future]] becomes existent.
118:1.5 In the [[maturity]] of the [[developing]] [[self]], the [[past]] and [[future]] are brought [[together]] to [[illuminate]] the true [[meaning]] of the present. As the [[self]] [[matures]], it reaches further and further back into the [[past]] for [[experience]], while its [[wisdom]] [[forecasts]] seek to penetrate deeper and deeper into the [[unknown]] [[future]]. And as the conceiving [[self]] extends this reach ever further into both [[past]] and [[future]], so does [[judgment]] become less and less dependent on the momentary [[present]]. In this way does [[decision]]-[[action]] begin to [[escape]] from the fetters of the moving [[present]], while it begins to take on the aspects of [[past]]-[[future]] significance.
118:1.6 [[Patience]] is [[exercised]] by those [[mortals]] whose [[time]] [[units]] are short; true [[maturity]] [[transcends]] patience by a [[forbearance]] born of real [[understanding]].
118:1.7 To become [[mature]] is to live more [[intensely]] in the present, at the same time [[escaping]] from the [[limitations]] of the [[present]]. The [[plans]] of [[maturity]], founded on [[past]] experience, are coming into [[being]] in the present in such [[manner]] as to enhance the [[values]] of the [[future]].
118:1.8 The [[time]] [[unit]] of immaturity [[concentrates]] [[meaning]]-[[value]] into the present [[moment]] in such a way as to [[divorce]] the present of its true [[relationship]] to the not-present—the [[past]]-[[future]]. The time unit of [[maturity]] is [[proportioned]] so to [[reveal]] the [[co-ordinate]] [[relationship]] of past-present-future that the [[self]] begins to gain [[insight]] into the [[wholeness]] of [[events]], begins to view the [[landscape]] of [[time]] from the [[panoramic]] [[perspective]] of broadened [[horizons]], begins perhaps to suspect the nonbeginning, nonending [[eternal]] [[continuum]], the [[fragments]] of which are called [[time]].
118:1.9 On the [[levels]] of the [[infinite]] and the [[absolute]] the moment of the present contains all of the [[past]] as well as all of the [[future]]. [[I AM]] signifies also I WAS and I WILL BE. And this [[represents]] our best [[concept]] of eternity and the [[eternal]].
118:1.10 On the [[absolute]] and [[eternal]] level, [[potential]] [[reality]] is just as meaningful as [[actual]] [[reality]]. Only on the [[finite]] level and to [[time]]-bound [[creatures]] does there appear to be such a vast [[difference]]. To [[God]], as [[absolute]], an [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE ascending mortal] who has made the [[eternal]] [[decision]] is already a [[Paradise]] [[finaliter]]. But the [[Universal Father]], through the indwelling [[Thought Adjuster]], is not thus [[limited]] in [[awareness]] but can also know of, and [[participate]] in, every [[temporal]] [[struggle]] with the [[problems]] of the [[creature]] [[ascent]] from [[animal]]like to [[God]]like [[levels]] of [[existence]].
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[[Category:Paper 118 - Supreme and Ulitimate-Time and Space]]
