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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen. I:I)
MAGNUS ES, DOMINE, ET LAUDABILIS VALDE.
Nothing exists by any other cause than God. It must therefore be that in His word alone he's created them: "It is
in this way, then, that you mean us to understand your Word, who is God with you, God with God, your Word uttered eternally
in whom all things are uttered eternally." (Confessiones, XI)
God is before time. But it is not IN TIME that He precedes it: "No time is co-eternal with You, because You never
change; whereas, if time never changed, it would not be time." (ibid.)
What time could there have been that was not created? How could time elapse if it never was?
The concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe: "You made all time;
You are before all time; and the 'time,' if such we may call it, when there was no time was not time at all." (ibid.)
We also find this idea in Boethius:"Creator of the planets and the sky, who time from timelessness didst bring."
(De Consolatione, III) An extension of this though appears in the Atharva-Veda (XIX,54,3): "Time has engendered everything
that has been and will be." In Brahman, the NUNC FLUENS and the NUNC STANS of Boethius coincide. Time and eternity
are two aspects of the same principle.
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