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Time

I am That I am are the keywords for Leo and with a bit of license that can be expanded to I AM THAT THAT AM I to signify the Creator itself – something that is Whole and also the products of Its Creation. Time is consciousness can similarly be expanded to Time is Consciousness Consciousness is Time.

What is Time

Time is something that we are born in to and unless we are one of the exceptions we know it as a progression of events that occur throughout our lives. For most of us the past is history and the future unknown as we plod through the days of our lives.

In “Connectedness” I stated on page 274, “The subject of time is one that I always have difficulty with. Most of us are brought up to live ‘by the clock’; ‘time is money’; ‘don’t waste time’; and similar statements run through our everyday language and our lives”. As a result of this it becomes difficult to visualize time as actually something different from the 24 hours per day that we are allotted in which to live our lives.

Time does appear, however, to be flexible, even in its relentless onwards march through events and conclusions. In “Higher Psychical Development” Hereward Carrington relates the story of the time he was with friends at a restaurant. After taking a mind-altering drug he said he couldn’t finish the sandwich in front of him because it would take years and years. Getting up to walk to a railway station he had a sense that hours elapsed between every footstep.

The main definition of time in the Random House Dictionary states that it is “the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.” This reinforces the belief of a continual sequence of events.

Experience of Time

The experience of time as a flexible phenomenon is also available to anyone who is bored or who has too much to do. In a period of boredom time appears to ‘stretch’, the clock hands seem to move very slowly and the thought comes that this will never end. When thoroughly engrossed in a task that has to be performed in a short period of time or when there is a great interest in a book or a project time seems to pass very quickly, we don’t have enough time in which to enjoy or perform our task.

Stanza I of the Book of Dzyan records that “TIME WAS NOT, FOR IT LAY ASLEEP IN THE INFINITE BOSOM OF CREATION”. If there is no consciousness there is not time. It is our consciousness that releases time as we travel through our successive states of Being and that was succinctly put by David Bohm when he stated that what we experience is the implicate order which is externalized from the underlying ONE into the explicate order in which we have our experience. From this we can infer that all events that occur in time are already present in embryo form.

In The Light of the Soul (A. A. Bailey) it is stated that “time itself is simply a succession of states of consciousness and this is true of an atom, a man, or a God”. In this regard it can be stated that the past, the present, and the future are all there in that underlying thought which is the Eternal Creator.

Two further extracts serve to emphasise that time for the average man is not what it seems.

In The Secret Doctrine Vol I (1971) on page 116 it states “In the words of a Master – I feel irritated at having to use these three clumsy words – Past, Present and Future, miserable concepts of the objective phases of the subjective whole, they are about as ill-adapted for the purpose as an axe for fine carving.” A similar thought is expressed on page 5 of Initiation, Human and Solar where one reads – “...from the standpoint of a Master. To Him it may be but part of a greater fact, only a fraction of the whole. Since His vision is fourth and fifth dimensional, His realisation of the place of time in eternity must be more accurate than ours. He sees things from above downwards, and as one to whom time is not.”

Bearing in mind the foregoing and the flexibility of time the report in New Scientist (9 July 1999) page 11 that a physicist at Clarkson University, Potsdam N.Y. has some support for stating that there could be regions, even in our own galaxy, where time can flow backwards and forwards as physics equations state that particles of matter don’t care what direction time runs in.

This opens up the thought that past relationships can be modified, even with individuals who died before reconciliation could take place. The universe is a whole and this implies that we are all part of that whole, at all times and any contact we make with another party, in every sense of the word, binds us tightly or loosely to it. There are programs available that will allow past negative contacts to be resolved and thus release all entities from past associations that are hampering the ability to move on and live a productive life, in the sense that the consciousness is relieved of memories that hold it back. It has already been noted that clock time does not really exist and therefore this therapy is entirely logical.

Prophecy

The foregoing carries an implication that if all events are present at the same moment in the created universe there is the potential for future events to be picked up by those individuals whose consciousness can penetrate beyond the here and now.

Albert Einstein must have been thinking of this when he wrote to a friend in these words – “The past, present and future are only illusions, even if stubborn ones”. His special theory of relativity does not have any particular significance for the present moment because two events that occur at the same moment if observed from one reference frame may occur at different moments if viewed from another. Perhaps a good example of this is an astronomer looking at a galaxy that collapsed perhaps billions of years ago but to him it is happening at that particular moment in time.

There is a related reference to this elasticity of time in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire where, on page 63, the Tibetan states, “from the standpoint of the Eternal now, none is greater nor less than another, for the last shall be the first and the last first. Out of manifestation time is not, and freed from objectivity, states of consciousness are not”.

One can conclude, therefore, that if the previous statements portray a relatively true picture of time and existence that it is possible for an individual who has the ability to transcend time and view it as a whole, to see causes and events as one happening with no intervening spaces.

Accessing Time

David Bohm developed the idea that all consciousness (life) exists in a series of holograms, which are static representations, and he then said that life is a holomovement. The created universe(s) is one holomovement which contains holomovements of holograms at lower levels of vibration each part of each one containing the pattern of the whole, albeit at a much fuzzier state.

Using an analogy, the Creative being had a Plan held in Its consciousness in much the same way that an architect holds a plan in his consciousness, which is then put onto a surface on which the rooms, dimensions, landscaping etc., are placed. That plan implies that the necessary work can be carried out to bring the subject into objectivity and that is called the implicate order. During the implementation of the plan is the explicate order, the carrying out of what was planned. The plan, the implicate order, can be accessed by the architect at any time as he has the plan in his files together with all the amendments made and the resulting constructed building. A customer can go to the architect at any time and work backwards from the actual building to the original plan by discussing the plan with the architect because he has the required qualities, in this case he paid for the right. Other individuals with a range of qualities can also enter in but only to certain stages depending on the quality they exhibit. For example, a bricklayer may only be entitled to the layout of the bricks he has to lay.

A human being, provided he has reached an appropriate level of consciousness and is of sufficient purity in his being can perform a similar process from the level at which he stands. He can go into the implicate order and explore the Plan to that level his attained consciousness will allow. Each of us is a part of a holomovement and depending on the level of fuzziness can attain a vision of some of the whole.

Energy, the bedrock of all created existence exists at varying levels of strength, the coarser the energy vibration the fuzzier the view of the whole. Progress to a higher degree of consciousness therefore reduces the fuzziness and opens up the potential for a greater insight into the implicate order. The Tibetan, through Alice Bailey, has said that the Plan will proceed, even if humanity does not fulfil its part in the evolutionary process. In other words we will be dragged into the next phase of the Plan whether we like it or not. My thought on this is that rather than us working to perfect ourselves we are being drawn back to the Source of the Creation which intends to realise Its Plan regardless of any holdbacks, and in order to assist in that drawing back we assist by working on the purification of our bodies. The Hierarchy and mystics/occultists who are able to access the implicate order provide us with the means whereby we can add our contribution to the fulfilment of the Plan.

To elaborate on this thought of creation being drawn back to its source is to reflect on the evolution of humanity from its earliest beginnings in its physical form. Very early primitive Man could not conceivably be in a position to consciously work on evolution to a higher state of being – there was no mind to work on this growth. Once involution had run its course the Creative Being began to draw in its creation and pass a higher consciousness into its creation. In certain humans there was also the potential for self-activation of growth in consciousness and this, of course, assists the Creator in its pull-back to Source.

Humanity has the free will to work on the Plan in a positive or a negative sense and by working positively we can assist in its development thus bringing the day of synthesis of all levels of consciousness to its ultimate conclusion.