Being and the Absolute

And Development of the Idea of Being

AREA 4 BEING THROUGH TIME...AND ABSOLUTE BEING - BEYOND TIME

Scales

The Instant²⁷...the shortest duration of significance to the being

The Life Span...from birth to death...or from creation to destruction or decay

Beyond Birth and Death

Being beyond time...the Absolute²⁸

This is all being as Being for which an instant = ¥

Time

B = time [t] and being [B ‘]...are never not but become manifest in transformation from the virtual to the actual. B ó F... ²⁹ ...F ...corresponds metaphorically to “A time before or after time”...which means literally “a time when time has no significance.” Time can have “no significance” in the following way: consider two levels of “phenomena” in which level 2 [e.g. a gross level] is constituted of the elements at level 1 [a fine level]; then, dynamics and change at level 1 can correspond in equilibrium, stasis, absence of dynamical phenomena, no measurable, phenomenal or observable time at level 2. The familiar example, from physics, is the case of macroscopic thermodynamic phenomena as level 2 and molecular phenomena as level 1. In this example, the lack of a phenomenal time at level 2 does not correspond to absence of time at all but to the absence of temporal phenomena at that level. However, referring back to the fundamental case of time [t] and being [B ‘], level 2 corresponds to the actual universe and level 1 to virtual or potential existence. The foundation of the basis of an actual world with structure and under ongoing evolution in a virtual or potential world is developed in detail in my writing; see, for example, the elements of the dynamics and using the analogies for the dynamics. In this case there is no actual or manifest time. Individuation from B results in actual time t, in being B‘ and beings, b

Each monad or real point has its own time which, through the conditions of origination, remains in relation to the time or times of all being. Each mode of being has its own time scale that is a function of the universal time of all being