TIME

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The Deity of Time

Samuel Alexander monumental book "Space, Time and Deity" (1920) first inintiated this concept of Time in his Gifford lectures at Glasgow 1916-1918.

"There is no Deity existing prior to evolution and causing evolution at its will. Deity is not ready yet, it is still in the process of making. The whole universe is now striving to evolve Deity. Deity is neither the ground nor the cause of the universe. The origin of all things, even of Deity, is Space-Time with the categories. It is clear then that, according to Alexander, Space-Time has no creator, it is self-existent and is the cause of all other things which emerge from it. The God of religion is the whole universe thirsting for the evolution of Deity. Religious feelings and experiences are the action on our minds and bodies of the universe pressing forward towards Deity. Deity is not responsible for anything in the universe, for it is not yet born. There seems to be an endless evolution in inexhaustible time, and Deity itself is a creature of time."

Samuel Alexander recognized “time-space” as the ultimately reality in metaphysics. This corresponded to Hegel’s Absolute Spirit, and at the same time it would be the material or model for things and their development. This “time-space” is divided into “motions” whose ultimate instance is the point or moment. In Alexander’s system, the term motion is a primary term (it does not describe a series of sequential positions), e.g., substance is understood as a stable configuration of “motions”. From this space-time divided into “motions” at a certain level of organization a series of qualities emerge: matter, life, and mind. To Hegel, "world history is thus the unfolding of Spirit in time, as nature is the unfolding of the Idea in space.".He does believe that world historical events represent the necessary unfolding of the Spirit through time. "The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom..." Absolute Consciousness will be experienced by all with the "end of time". In German spirit and mind are the same. "Geist " can also mean consciousness or the awareness of the self or awareness of time.

Metaphysics refers to the branch of philosophy that attempts to understand the fundamental nature of all reality, whether visible or invisible. It seeks a description so basic, so essentially simple, so all-inclusive that it applies to everything, whether divine or human or anything else. It attempts to tell what anything must be like in order to be at all.

"Time is a fascinating topic and new ideas are continually being put forward. It is still perhaps the most mysterious property of the universe."
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson

After describing the real time appearance as beginning in a singularity Stephen Hawking then wonders which is the "real" time:-
"This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time, and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations. In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end in singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down. But in imaginary time, there are no singularities or boundaries. so maybe what we call imaginary time is more basic, and what we call real time is just an idea we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is really like."

Einstein decided that time was the whole key to understanding the universe, . He wrote:- "My solution was really for the very concept of time, that is, that time is not absolutely defined but there is an inseparable connection between time and the velocity of light." History of Time

.(I) T= E = MC² , T=Distance/Velocity

However, Time is not only the aspect of the world as ongoing. It is also for Alexander the inner aspect of everything in the world. He puts this by saying "Time is the Mind of Space" . Yet in context Alexander means something precise which takes up what he understands by Mind as we know it in ourselves. "Mind," we have said, is properly the name of a quality of certain syntheses of motions, a quality through which the omnipresent relation of one thing with another called "compresence" becomes consciousness of an object. This is knowledge in the form of what Alexander calls "contemplation." Besides this, there is another form of knowledge which he calls "enjoyment." This is a mind’s awareness of itself as knowing -- not introspection of itself as an object, which, if it were possible, would be a form of contemplation, but the inner experience of a process which is essentially temporal. Alexander generalizes from this to seeing the temporal aspect of anything as its own inner aspect, its living through whatever it may be undergoing. This, he says, is analogous to "mind"; it is not conscious enjoyment, which belongs to the quality known as mind proper. It is used by analogy to express the view of everything as having its inner side as a process which is gone through. On the other hand, "Space" stands for what is already achieved, already there as the contemporary world, and this is analogous to the extended body.

In the beginning there was time: (The continuum "the big bang")

Time = Now (N)
Now = (-) Future
Now = (+) Past
+T = Future
-T = Past
Consciousness is the continuum of time and is time itself (N). It is the spirit/soul of the individual. On an algebraic graph time are points that become motion or flow chart.

The primary categories are matter, life, and mind. Samuel Alexander found the cosmic order tending toward an end, which he termed Deity. Mind, one of the primary categories, is endowed with the unique property of consciousness, through which it may achieve Deity.

Spinoza was the major proponent of Monism or that mind and body are one substance of the same infinite God. Only with the discoveries of modern physics has Spinoza been understood. With Einstien E=MC² and the leap forward of atomic, quantumn and wave theory the unity of substance as Spinoza postulated is better understood. Spinoza saw God as one infinite substance that simply morphed into other forms with different aspects. Samuel Alexander moved forward with this idea and developed the concept that the Deity is in a process of constant creation through space-time. see Monism

Still the missing link is still understanding Time. Einstein stated, " that time was the whole key to understanding the universe" and he wrote:-
"My solution was really for the very concept of time, that is, that time is not absolutely defined but there is an inseparable connection between time and the velocity of light." For Alexander, Time is a continuum of the Deity but for Astrology Time is the infinite God with all its aspects within the same logic used by Spinoza.