Editorial August 30, 1947 Issue

THERE ARE NO FETTERS OF TIME

L. Ivimy Gwalter

Apart from the relentlessness of time, the spiritual fact of being exists. This spiritual fact and its celestial rhythm is the substance of eternity. It exists in the here and the now of Spirit, where creation is the orderly unfoldment of divine Principle. It enfolds all individuality and embraces all identity. The operation of God's law is timeless and effortless, complete and irrevocable. The rhythmic harmony of the divine order reflects the tender, tireless operation of God's law. The ceaselessness of Life, the deathlessness of Love, the foreverness of Spirit constitute the present, tangible actuality of being, which is discernible through spiritual sense and demonstrable in spiritual understanding.

Everything in human experience is bound up in the godless belief of time, yet time is not a thing but a sense, a false, fleeting sense, an inverted sense of eternity. So the Preacher, in the book of Ecclesiastes, wrote (Eccl. 3:1, 2), "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;" and he then continues to enumerate the vicissitudes of the mortal dream.

All the pomp and splendor of materialism, as well as all its pressure, tension, frustration, and futility, is enshrined in the mortal sense of time. Mortal mind calls time the essential element of all things; nothing can be done without time. Every obstruction, like every accomplishment of human experience, is recorded in the annals of time, all human history is pigeonholed there, and all human hope waits for its fulfillment on the uncertainty of time. One believes that he has too much time, another not enough, yet each has all there is of it.

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