Dear LO,
What I have written out below (information) is an arrow pointing to an MS
Word file I have asked Rick to help make visible. In all the words below; -)
the word "unless" took my eye.
[Host's Note: Andrew's file, as a .pdf, is at
http://www.learning-org.com/images/LO28968_DustDevilsAndIcarus.pdf
.. Rick]
"Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you."
Marsha Norman
There is, according to Augustine, an 'inconceivable simultaneity'. In
this, his way;-) ..."temporality is not based upon our mutability and
transiency, but is inherent in the relationships between parts and the
whole. "Creator and Creature", Arendt
There may be no end to the universe (Cor.7:31-32)..."The 'figure' of this
world passes away, not its (intrinsic) nature." (The City of God XII, 4)
In this way, what endures independently of the parts' coming and going is
the imperishable harmonious whole in which parts find their place. If
sequence is the mode in which the whole appears to the parts, time is the
mode in which man understands it;-) (upon his two legs;-).
"They attempt to grasp eternal things, but their heart flutters among the
changing things of past and future and is still futile. Who will catch
hold of it [the heart] and make it fast so that it stands firm for a
little while, and for a little while may seize the splendour of eternity
standing still forever, and compare this with the times that never stand
still, and see that it is without comp- arison? Let [the heart] see that
a long time could not possibly be long unless is be composed of many
transient motions which can- not extend themselves all at once [simul],
but that in eternity nothing can be transient since the whole is present;
and surely no time is ever totally present. And let the heart see how
every past is propelled out of the future, and every future follows from
the past, and all the past and future are created and flow out of what is
ever present."
Confessions XI, 11, 13.
Love,
Andrew
Andrew Campbell
North Moreton
Oxford
--Learning-org -- Hosted by Rick Karash <Richard@Karash.com> Public Dialog on Learning Organizations -- <http://www.learning-org.com>
"Learning-org" and the format of our message identifiers (LO1234, etc.) are trademarks of Richard Karash.