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Plato - Timaeus - On time
Identifier
004802
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Perceptions give us our sense of time, outside perceptions there is no time
A description of the experience
Plato - Timaeus
Now the nature of the ideal being was everlasting, but to bestow this attribute in its fullness upon a creature was impossible. Wherefore He resolved to have a moving image of eternity and when he set in order the heaven, he made this image eternal, but moving according to number, while eternity itself rests in unity; and this image we call time. For there were no days and nights and months and years before the heaven was created, but when he constructed the heaven he created them also