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118:3.1 Only by [[ubiquity]] could [[Deity]] [[unify]] [[time-space]] [[manifestations]] to the [[finite]] [[conception]], for [[time]] is a [[succession]] of instants while [[space]] is a [[system]] of [[associated]] [[points]]. You do, after all, [[perceive]] [[time]] by [[analysis]] and [[space]] by [[synthesis]]. You [[co-ordinate]] and [[associate]] these two dissimilar [[conceptions]] by the [[integrating]] [[insight]] of [[personality]]. Of all the [[animal]] world only [[man]] [[possesses]] this [[time-space]] perceptibility. To an [[animal]], [[motion]] has a [[meaning]], but motion [[exhibits]] [[value]] only to a [[creature]] of [[personality]] [[status]].
118:3.2 [[Things]] are [[time]] [[conditioned]], but [[truth]] is timeless. The more truth you [[know]], the more truth you are, the more of the [[past]] you can [[understand]] and of the [[future]] you can [[comprehend]].
118:3.3 [[Truth]] is inconcussible—forever exempt from all [[transient]] [[vicissitudes]], albeit never [[dead]] and [[formal]], always vibrant and [[adaptable]]—radiantly alive. But when [[truth]] becomes linked with [[fact]], then both [[time and space]] condition its [[meanings]] and correlate its [[values]]. Such [[realities]] of [[truth]] wedded to [[fact]] become [[concepts]] and are accordingly relegated to the [[domain]] of [[relative]] [[cosmic]] [[realities]].
118:3.4 The linking of the [[absolute]] and [[eternal]] [[truth]] of the [[Creator]] with the [[factual]] [[experience]] of the [[finite]] and [[temporal]] [[creature]] [[eventuates]] a new and [[emerging]] [[value]] of the [[Supreme]]. The [[concept]] of the [[Supreme]] is [[essential]] to the [[co-ordination]] of the [[divine]] and unchanging overworld with the [[finite]] and ever-changing underworld.
118:3.5 [[Space]] comes the nearest of all nonabsolute [[things]] to being [[absolute]]. Space is [[apparently]] absolutely [[ultimate]]. The real [[difficulty]] we have in [[understanding]] [[space]] on the [[material]] [[level]] is due to the [[fact]] that, while [[material]] bodies exist in [[space]], [[space]] also exists in these same [[material]] [[bodies]]. While there is much about [[space]] that is [[absolute]], that does not mean that space is absolute.
118:3.6 It may help to an [[understanding]] of [[space]] [[relationships]] if you would [[conjecture]] that, [[relatively]] speaking, space is after all a [[property]] of all [[material]] bodies. Hence, when a [[body]] moves through [[space]], it also takes all its [[properties]] with it, even the space which is in and of such a moving body.
118:3.7 All [[patterns]] of [[reality]] occupy [[space]] on the [[material]] levels, but [[spirit]] [[patterns]] only exist in [[relation]] to [[space]]; they do not occupy or displace space, neither do they contain it. But to us the master [[riddle]] of [[space]] pertains to the [[pattern]] of an [[idea]]. When we enter the [[mind]] [[domain]], we encounter many a [[puzzle]]. Does the pattern—the [[reality]]—of an [[idea]] occupy [[space]]? We really do not know, albeit we are sure that an [[idea]] [[pattern]] does not contain [[space]]. But it would hardly be safe to [[postulate]] that the immaterial is always nonspatial.
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118:3.1 Only by [[ubiquity]] could [[Deity]] [[unify]] [[time-space]] [[manifestations]] to the [[finite]] [[conception]], for [[time]] is a [[succession]] of instants while [[space]] is a [[system]] of [[associated]] [[points]]. You do, after all, [[perceive]] [[time]] by [[analysis]] and [[space]] by [[synthesis]]. You [[co-ordinate]] and [[associate]] these two dissimilar [[conceptions]] by the [[integrating]] [[insight]] of [[personality]]. Of all the [[animal]] world only [[man]] [[possesses]] this [[time-space]] perceptibility. To an [[animal]], [[motion]] has a [[meaning]], but motion [[exhibits]] [[value]] only to a [[creature]] of [[personality]] [[status]].
118:3.2 [[Things]] are [[time]] [[conditioned]], but [[truth]] is timeless. The more truth you [[know]], the more truth you are, the more of the [[past]] you can [[understand]] and of the [[future]] you can [[comprehend]].
118:3.3 [[Truth]] is inconcussible—forever exempt from all [[transient]] [[vicissitudes]], albeit never [[dead]] and [[formal]], always vibrant and [[adaptable]]—radiantly alive. But when [[truth]] becomes linked with [[fact]], then both [[time and space]] condition its [[meanings]] and correlate its [[values]]. Such [[realities]] of [[truth]] wedded to [[fact]] become [[concepts]] and are accordingly relegated to the [[domain]] of [[relative]] [[cosmic]] [[realities]].
118:3.4 The linking of the [[absolute]] and [[eternal]] [[truth]] of the [[Creator]] with the [[factual]] [[experience]] of the [[finite]] and [[temporal]] [[creature]] [[eventuates]] a new and [[emerging]] [[value]] of the [[Supreme]]. The [[concept]] of the [[Supreme]] is [[essential]] to the [[co-ordination]] of the [[divine]] and unchanging overworld with the [[finite]] and ever-changing underworld.
118:3.5 [[Space]] comes the nearest of all nonabsolute [[things]] to being [[absolute]]. Space is [[apparently]] absolutely [[ultimate]]. The real [[difficulty]] we have in [[understanding]] [[space]] on the [[material]] [[level]] is due to the [[fact]] that, while [[material]] bodies exist in [[space]], [[space]] also exists in these same [[material]] [[bodies]]. While there is much about [[space]] that is [[absolute]], that does not mean that space is absolute.
118:3.6 It may help to an [[understanding]] of [[space]] [[relationships]] if you would [[conjecture]] that, [[relatively]] speaking, space is after all a [[property]] of all [[material]] bodies. Hence, when a [[body]] moves through [[space]], it also takes all its [[properties]] with it, even the space which is in and of such a moving body.
118:3.7 All [[patterns]] of [[reality]] occupy [[space]] on the [[material]] levels, but [[spirit]] [[patterns]] only exist in [[relation]] to [[space]]; they do not occupy or displace space, neither do they contain it. But to us the master [[riddle]] of [[space]] pertains to the [[pattern]] of an [[idea]]. When we enter the [[mind]] [[domain]], we encounter many a [[puzzle]]. Does the pattern—the [[reality]]—of an [[idea]] occupy [[space]]? We really do not know, albeit we are sure that an [[idea]] [[pattern]] does not contain [[space]]. But it would hardly be safe to [[postulate]] that the immaterial is always nonspatial.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118 Go to Paper 118]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 118 - Supreme and Ulitimate-Time and Space]]