Sunday, November 16, 2008

An Instance of Eternity

The idea of a perpetual instant is another paradox we use to express a thought we cannot think of directly. Our language is constructed to cope with our normal existence, as we apprehend it through our physical senses, in Time and Space. We use prepositions like through, in, under, before, after, above, that relate to three-dimensional things, and to the past, present, and future of Time, in which we seem to live. But we have intuitions of modes of being that cannot be expressed in these simple terms: We live in Space, but we have intuitions of Infinity: We live in Time, but have intuitions of Eternity. Infinity does not simply mean more and more and more Space, any more than Eternity just means more and more and more Time.

An instance of eternity is meant to convey what an ephemeral Time-conditioned creature can, for a split second, apprehend and endure of absolute reality, of something that is eternal- A man in an act of doing, experiences the eternal struggle between Good and Evil within himself, or a student in a moment of anticipation for the end of the A levels experiences the never-ending drone and cycle of a life stuck in the continuum of trial after trial seperated by a mere instant of ephemeral relief.

Yes. I love literature and Murder in the Cathedral.
But, don't we all?

Cheers,
Jamie.

Posted by Jamie at Sunday, November 16, 2008