XVI. The Relative Understanding of Time (pgs. B121 – B133)
Chapitre 16 Relativité de la notion de Temps
Capítulo 16 A relativa compreensão do Tempo.
Beelzebub explains to Hassein how those three-brained beings who breed on the planet Earth calculate Time, and how the being-sensation in their presence of what is called the ‘process of the flow of Time’ has gradually changed and what it has become today.
But since Hassein does not yet have any idea of the exceptional peculiarities of Time, he is first told that genuine Objective Science defines this cosmic phenomenon thus:
‘Time in itself does not exist; there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.’
Time in itself no being can understand by Reason or perceive by any outer or inner being-function. It cannot even be sensed by any gradation of the instinct present in every more or less independent cosmic concentration.
Time or, as it is sometimes called, the ‘Heropass,’ is unique in having no source on which its origin depends, and it alone, like “divine Love,” always flows independently and blends proportionately with all the phenomena present in all the arisings in any given place in our Great Universe. Time alone in the whole of the Universe can be named and extolled as the ‘Ideally Unique Subjective Phenomenon.’
Objective Science has, for its examination of Time, the same ‘standard unit’ that is used to determine exactly the density and quality of all cosmic substances present in every place and in every sphere of our Great Universe. And this standard unit has always been the moment of what is called ‘sacred egokoolnatsnarnian sensation,’ which appears in the Holly Cosmic Individuals dwelling on the Most Holly Sun Absolute whenever the vision of our Uni-Being Endlessness is directed into space and directly touches their presence.
The chief particularity of the process of the flow of Time consists in this: it is perceived in the same way and in the same sequence by the presences of all cosmic formations of different scales. And to give some notion of what Beelzebub has been saying, he gives as an example the process of the flow of Time in a drop of water.
So that Hassein may understand Time and its peculiarities better, Beelzebub says that according to what Objective Science has established and calculations that were given to him by the great Arch-Engineer of the Universe, His Measurability, the Archangel Algamatant, all normal three-brained beings, and among them of course those arising in planet Karatas, sense the sacred ‘egokoolnatsnarnian’ action, by which they define Time, forty-nine times more slowly than it is sensed by the Sacred Individuals dwelling on the Most Holly Sun Absolute. Consequently, the process of the flow of Time is forty-nine times quicker for the three-brained beings of Karatas than for the beings of the Sun Absolute, and this is the speed at which it also should flow for those breeding on the planet Earth. But what is really happening is that there is a gradual diminishing of the average normal length of the existence of the three-brained beings of that ill-fated planet to ‘almost nothing,’ and the first and principal cause for this was, of course, that Nature had to adapt herself correspondingly in order to change their presence little by little to what it is now.
He explains that throughout the Universe there exist two ‘kinds,’ or two ‘principles,’ of duration of being existence.
The first principle of being existence, called ‘fulasnitamnian,’ is proper to all three-brained beings arising on any planet of our Great Universe. And the fundamental meaning and aim of their existence is to serve as the vehicle of the transmutation of cosmic substances necessary for the ‘common-cosmic trogoautoegocratic process.’
The second principle of being existence is the one to which all one-brained and two-brained beings are subject, wherever they may arise. And the meaning and aim of the existence of these beings also consists in the transmutation through them of cosmic substances, which are required, in heir case, not for purposes of common-cosmic character, but for that solar system alone; or even for that planet alone within which or upon which they arise.
The duration of the existence of the three-brained beings of the planet Earth should conform to the ‘fulasnitamnian’ principle, that is to say, they should be obliged to exist until there would be coated in them, and completely perfected in Reason, what is called the ‘kesdjan body.’
And in order to obtain the equilibrium of the vibrations required, both in quality and quantity, Nature herself was compelled to adapt the presence of the three-brained beings gradually to conform to the second principle, called ‘itoklanotz,’ that is, to actualize them in the same way as one-brained and two-brained beings.
So, although the primary cause of the general chaos reigning on that ill-fated planet Earth was certain ‘unforseeingnesses’ from Above on the part of various Sacred Individuals, nevertheless the chief cause of all the evils that followed is to be found in the abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence they themselves gradually established, and continue to establish, down to the present time.