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Time Manipulation and Space-Time Theory - ROBERT SEPEHR
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Time Manipulation and Space-Time Theory - ROBERT SEPEHR
Albert Einstein concluded that the past, present, and future all
exist simultaneously. Is time travel possible? Has anyone built
a successful time machine? What classified German UFO technology
does the US government posses, and can they manipulate
space-time? Is there a Secret Space Program?
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Maximus the Confessor’s ‘
Aeon
’
HTML https://www.academia.edu/21527248/Maximus_the_Confessors_Aeon_as_a_Distinct_Mode_of_Temporality
as a Distinct Mode of Temporality
Dr Sotiris Mitralexis University of Winchester & City University
of Istanbul
Abstract: In this paper, I shall focus on the semantic content
of
α
in Maximus the Confessor
’
s works, particularly in the instances in which he employs it as
a distinct form of temporality, i.e. not as simply meaning
‘ἷtἷὄὀity’
. I focus on
α
as aMaximian
terminus technicus
in spite of the diverse meanings that he himself ascribes to
the word in certain cases
.
I will also
ἷὀgagἷ with thἷ ὅtatuὅ
ὁἸ timἷ aὅ humaὀity’ὅ
slavery
, aὅ humaὀity’ὅ
enemy
iὀ εaximuὅ’ thὁught,
for this is integrally connected with the notion of the Aeon and
especially with the need to transcend both time as

and temporality in the form of the Aeon in striving for ever
well-being. The greater context of this investigation is the
understanding
ὁἸ εaximuὅ’
conception of temporality as a
threefold
one, consisting of (a) time as

, the temporality of the sensible realm and the numbering of
motion, (b)
α
i.e.
thἷ χἷὁὀ, a ‘timἷ
withὁut mὁvἷmἷὀt’ aὀἶ
thἷ tἷmpὁὄality ὁἸ thἷ
iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ ἵὄἷa
tion, and(c) the transformed temporality of the ever-moving
repose (

ἀ&
#57373;
).
Maximus the Confessor is widely credited with accomplishing a
philosophical and theological synthesis of rare depth and
fecundity. Among the numerous fields (as we would divide them to
today) in which his contributions bear relevance are ontology,
cosmology, and philosophical/theological anthropology, to name a
few. However, not adequate attention has been given to his
complex and nuanced understanding of temporality, despite a
number of contributions shedding light to aspects of this
subject and to which I shall refer below. It is my
ἵὁὀviἵtiὁὀ that a
thὄἷἷἸὁlἶ
thἷὁὄy ὁἸ
tἷmpὁὄality ἵaὀ ἴἷ
tὄaἵἷἶ iὀ εaximuὅ’
wὁὄkὅ
, a theory that, in its threefold structure, has a noticeable
degree of originality in spite of the Confessor building on
diverse elements from the thought of his predecessors and
contemporaries in order to arrive at this synthesis.
1
This conception of temporality consists of (a) time as

,the temporality of the sensible realm and the numbering of
motion, (b)
α
i.e. the Aeon, a
‘timἷ withὁut mὁvἷmἷὀt’
aὀἶ thἷ tἷmpὁὄality
ὁἸ thἷ iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ
ἵὄἷatiὁὀ, aὀἶ
(ἵ) thἷ
transformed temporality of the ever-moving repose (

ἀ&
#57373;
2
) that is both absolute timelessness and the temporality of
deification, the consummation of the very nature of time
—
having thus implications for a number of theological and
philosophical subjects beyond temporality itself.
IἸ wἷ
uὀἶἷὄὅtaὀἶ
εaximuὅ’
ἵὁὀἵἷptiὁὀ
ὁἸ tἷmpὁὄalit
y this way, then the ambiguous
α
cannot be accurately rendered as
‘ἷtἷὄὀity’ iὀ ἷaἵh
aὀἶ ἷvἷὄy ἵaὅἷ,
aὅ thἷὄἷ wὁulἶ
ἴἷ
two
kiὀἶὅ ὁἸ
‘ἷtἷὄὀity’ with
ἶiἸἸἷὄἷὀt
ἵhaὄaἵtἷὄiὅtiἵὅ&
#941;
Iὀ thiὅ papἷὄ, I ὅhall
Ἰὁἵuὅ ὁὀ thἷ
ὅἷmaὀtiἵ
content of
α
iὀ εaximuὅ’ wὁὄkὅ
in the instances in which he employs it as a distinct form of
temporality
; I shall focus on
α
as a Maximian
terminus technicus
in spite of the diverse meanings that he himself ascribes to
the word in certain cases
.
This polysemy in the
1
Analyzed extensively in Sotiris Mitralexis,
Ever-Moving Repose: The notion of time in Maximus the
Confessor’s philosophy through the perspective of a relational
ontology
(ἐἷὄliὀμ
όὄἷiἷ Uὀivἷὄὅität
ἐἷὄliὀ, ἢhϊ
diss., 2014). Chapter III.5. is devoted to the
ὅtuἶy ὁἸ εaximuὅ’
α
and formed the basis for the present paper.
2
E.g. Maximus Confessor,
Quaestiones ad Thalassium II. Quaestiones LVI-LXV
, eds. Carl Laga & Carlos Steel Corpus Christianorum Series
Graeca 22 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1990), 65.544-6 for this ambiguous
notion
ἑὁὀἸἷὅὅὁὄ’
ὅ
uὅἷ ὁἸ wὁὄἶὅ
wὁulἶ ὀὁt ἴἷ aὀ
ἷxἵἷptiὁὀ, ἴut
ὄathἷὄ a vἷὄy
ἵhaὄaἵtἷὄiὅtiἵ
topos.
I
will alὅὁ ἴὄiἷἸly
mἷὀtiὁὀ thἷ ὅtatuὅ
ὁἸ timἷ aὅ humaὀity’ὅ
slavery
, aὅ humaὀity’ὅ
enemy
in
εaximuὅ’ thὁught, Ἰὁὄ
thiὅ iὅ iὀtἷgὄally
ἵὁὀὀἷἵtἷ
d with the notion of the Aeon and especially with the need to
transcend both time as

and temporality in the form of the Aeon in striving for ever
well-being (
ἀ
ὖ
α)έ Thuὅ
iὅ εaximuὅ’
thὄἷἷἸὁlἶ
tἷmpὁὄality
ἶiὅἵlὁὅἷἶ
not merely as an idea of exclusively ontological and
cosmological relevance, but as crucial for
thἷ
ἑὁὀἸἷὅὅὁὄ’
ὅ
aὀthὄὁpὁlὁgy aὅ wἷll
, to which I will hint towards the end of this paper.
Whilἷ εaximuὅ’ ὀὁtiὁὀ
ὁἸ thἷ χἷὁὀ
(α
)
3
as a distinct, second form of temporality is expounded in
specific passages of his work, the reader is faced with the
problem of
εaximuὅ’
ἶiἸἸἷὄἷὀt
uὅagἷ ὁἸ thἷ tἷὄm
α
in different contexts throughout the Maximian corpus.
4
Apart from the meaning illustrated in the dual definition of

and
α
in
Ambigua
(PG 91 1164 BC), which will be shown as the primary definition
of the Aeon, Maximus also uses the term in different contexts in
order to signify eternity as unlimited duration,
5
or a great amount of time/a century,
6
ὁὄ hiὅtὁὄy, ὁὄ
ύὁἶ’ὅ tἷmpὁὄality
in contrast to our own
7
etc. This becomes quite pronounced in instances where Maximus
uses the word
3
χὅ wἷ pὁiὀtἷἶ ὁut
iὀ thἷ ἴἷgiὀὀiὀg, a
pὄὁἴlἷm with maὀy
ὅἵhὁlaὄly
aἵἵὁuὀtὅ ὁἸ
εaximuὅ’
uὀἶἷὄὅtaὀἶiὀg
ὁἸ thἷχἷὁὀ iὅ
thἷ laἵk ὁἸ
ἶiἸἸἷὄἷὀtiatiὁ&#
8000;
ἴἷtwἷἷὀ thἷ
‘ἷtἷὄὀity’ ὁἸ thἷ
χἷὁὀ aὀἶ thἷ
‘ἷtἷὄὀity’ ὁἸ thἷ
ἷvἷὄ
-moving repose, r
ἷὅultiὀg iὀ aὀ
ἷὄὄὁὀἷὁuὅ
aὀἶ iὀἵὁmplἷtἷ
ὄἷaἶiὀg ὁἸ thἷ
ἑὁὀἸἷὅὅὁὄ&
#941;
ώὁwἷvἷὄ, ἢaul
ἢlaὅὅ’
aὄtiἵlἷ‘Tὄaὀὅἵἷ&
#8000;ἶἷὀt
Timἷ iὀ εaximuὅ thἷ
ἑὁὀἸἷὅὅὁὄ’
,
The Thomist
44:2 (1980), pp. 259-77, is a valuable
ἵὁὀtὄiἴutiὁὀέ
ἠὁtἷ ἢlaὅὅ’
mἷὀtiὁὀ ὁἸ thἷ
εaximiaὀ aὀἶ
ἑappaἶὁἵia
n notion of
α
(distance, interval, extension) and its relation to temporality
in p. 260, as this plays a major role in our treatment of the
subject.
ἢlaὅὅ’ aὄtiἵlἷ
‘Tὄaὀὅἵἷὀἶἷ̠
0;t
Timἷ aὀἶ Etἷὄὀity iὀ
ύὄἷgὁὄy ὁἸ
ἠyὅὅa’,
Vigiliae Christianae
34 (1980), pp. 180-92,
iὅ a gὁὁἶ
iὀtὄὁἶuἵtiὁὀ tὁ
thἷὅἷ
ἵὁὀἵἷptὅ
pὄiὁὄ tὁ εaximuὅ’
ὄἷὀἷwal ὁἸ thἷmμ
iὀ ἴὁth aὄtiἵlἷὅ,
ἢlaὅὅ’
contradistinction of the Neoplatonic understanding of eternity
and return to the biblical and patristic one is particularly
noteworthy. David
ἐὄaἶὅhaw’ὅ ‘Timἷ
aὀἶ Etἷὄὀity iὀ thἷ
ύὄἷἷk όathἷὄὅ’,
The Thomist
70 (2006), pp.311-366, contains a very interesting subchapter
on Maximus, but heavily depends on the
Scholia
to the Dionysian Corpus, which are now attributed to Maximus
only to a very limited extent and cannot be relied on for
iὀvἷὅtigatiὀg εaximuὅ’
viἷwὅέ
4
Which, to different degrees, is also the case with almost any
important term Maximus employs, making it
ἷxἵἷἷἶiὀgly
ἶiἸἸiἵult Ἰὁὄ
thἷ ὄἷaἶἷὄ tὁ
ὅquaὄἷly
ὅyὅtἷmatiὐἷ thἷ
ἑὁὀἸἷὅὅὁὄ’
ὅ
uὀἶἷὄ
standing of core notions such as

,
π
(mode) etc. Throughout the secondary literature concerning
Maximus, an abundance of attempts at systematizing Maximian
terminology can be found (instead, for example, of accepting the
fact that only
approaches
tὁ εaximuὅ’ thὁught ἵaὀ
ἴἷ attἷmptἷἶ, withὁut
ἵlaimὅ ὁἸ
ἶἷἸiὀitivἷ
aὀὅwἷὄὅ),
ὁἸtἷὀ
yiἷlἶiὀguὀὅatiὅἸa̞
9;tὁὄy
ὄἷὅultὅ aὀἶ
lἷaἶiὀg tὁ
miὅuὀἶἷὄὅtaὀἶi&#
8000;gὅ
ὁἸ thἷ
ἑὁὀἸἷὅὅὁὄ’
ὅ
tἷaἵhiὀgὅ—
a tendency that is gradually being corrected.
5
E.g. Maximus the Confessor,
Quaestiones ad Thalassium I. Quaestiones I-LV,
eds. Carl Laga & Carlos Steel,Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca
7 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1980), 38.52:
6
E.g.
Quaestiones ad Thalassium II
, 56.140-2:
7
Maximus the Confessor,
On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua
, ed. and trans. Nicholas Constas,Vol. I, Dumbarton Oaks
Medieval Library 28 (Cambridge, MA and London, 2014), p. 309,
which is also PG91,
11κκἐμ ‘It muὅt ἴἷ
aἵἵἷptἷἶ that thἷ
ἷtἷὄὀally ἷxiὅtiὀg
ύὁἶ [
ἀ
] …’έ
Siὀἵἷ ἑὁὀὅtaὅ’
ἵὄitiἵal
ἷἶitiὁὀ(vὁlέ I
aὀἶ II aὄἷ
ϊumἴaὄtὁὀ ἡakὅ
εἷἶiἷval δiἴὄaὄy
βκ aὀἶ βλ
ὄἷὅpἷἵtivἷly)
ὀamἷὅ εigὀἷ’ὅ
Patrologia Graeca
column of ea
ἵh ὄἷὅpἷἵtivἷ
paὅὅagἷ, whilἷ maὀy
ὅἵhὁlaὄὅ ὅtill
ἶἷpἷὀἶ ὁὀ
ἢύ’ὅ
Ambigua
, wἷ will uὅἷ
ἑὁὀὅtaὅ’
critically edited text while simply citing
Ambigua
with ἢύλ1 ἵὁlumὀὅ
Ἰὁὄ thἷ
ὄἷaἶἷὄὅ’
ἵὁὀvἷὀiἷὀἵἷ
;,
aὅ ἢύἵὁlumὀὅ
ἵaὀ ἴἷ ἷaὅily
tὄaἵἷἶ ἴaἵk tὁ
ἑὁὀὅtaὅ’ pagἷὅ, whil
e the opposite is naturally not the case. When directly
uὅiὀg ἑὁὀὅtaὅ’
tὄaὀὅlatiὁὀ, wἷ will
ἵitἷ ἑὁὀὅtaὅ’
pagἷ ὀumἴἷὄὅέ
Sἷἷ alὅὁ
Scholia in De Divinis Nominibus
,CD4.1 and PG4 229 A-C:
Aeon
meaning eternity in the sense of unlimited time by employing
the word in its plural form
α
, i.e. the ages.
8
Maximus differentiates between the singular,
α
, and the plural,
α
, in a way suggestive of this by employing both forms in the
same sentence with different meanings
9
—
but again, this is not characteristic of the whole of his work
and cannot be systematized in such a way. When speaking o
Ἰ thἷ ‘tἷmpὁὄality’ ὁἸ
ύὁἶ iὀ
ἵὁὀtὄaὅt tὁ ὁuὄ
own, Maximus sometimes refers to it as Aeon or aeonic and
sometimes as
ἀΐ,
ἀΐ,ἀ&#
57344;,
10
iὀ ὁὄἶἷὄ tὁ
ἵὁὀtὄaὅt
ύὁἶ’ὅ ‘tἷmpὁὄality’
tὁ thἷ χἷὁὀ aὅ
wἷll
11
—
however, the Confessor does not adopt a systematized distinction
of

/
α
/
ἀ
, whereas he often clarifies that no kind of temporality
whatsoever can be applicable to God. And (to make things worse)
there are passages in which Maximus refers to
ἀ
simply as eternity without change and alteration,
12
practically equating it with the Aeon (as the state of
tἷmpὁὄality ὁἸ
iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ
ὄἷalitiἷὅ aὀἶ ‘timἷ
withὁut mὁtiὁὀ’) aὀἶ
ἷὄaἶiἵatiὀg aὀy
hὁpἷ ὁἸ a
solid

/
α
/
ἀ
distinction. However, and apart from this variety in the use of
terms, Maximus
does
propose a second form of temporality beyond normal time (

) and its extensions in duration
(ἷxtἷὀὅiὁὀὅ that
ὄἷaἵh up tὁ thἷ ‘agἷὅ
ὁἸ thἷ agἷὅ’)έ χ
Ἰὁὄm ὁἸ
tἷmpὁὄality that iὅ
inverted time
, as it is time without motion
—
whereas the main characteristic of time is that it is the
numbering of motion. I
. Quite logically, due to the numerous different commentators
that authored the
Scholia,
the differences in the use of the terms
α
and
α
throughout the
Scholia
can be profound, often offering contradictory illustrations
thereof.
8
E.g.
Ambigua,
1βηβ έ
9
Ambigua,
1γκλ ϊμ
α

α
,
α
αα α
αα
.
10
E.g. Maximus the Confessor,
Capita de caritate
, in Aldo Ceresa-Gastaldo (ed.),
Massimo Confessore -
Capitoli sulla caritá. Ed. criticamente con introd., versione e
note
, Verba Seniorum, collana di testi e studipatristici, n.s. 3
(Rome: Ed. Studium, 1963), 2.27.3, as well as 4.3.1:

ἀυ
υ&#
57411;
π

Θ
. As mentioned earlier, Maximus attributes
ἀ
to the uncreated

(
Capita de caritate
, 1.100, 2.27), thus differentiating
ἀ
from the Aeon, the beings in whom had had a beginning and a
generation, while the

had not.
11
Iὀ εaximuὅ’
Capita theologica et oeconomica
(located in PG90, 1084-1173), PG90 1086 B
,
1.6, we find a clear example of the
ἀΐ
attributed to God and the Aeon attributed to the creatures that
are not under time:
‘χἴὅὁlutἷly
ὀὁthiὀg that iὅ
ἶiἸἸἷὄἷὀt
Ἰὄὁ
m [God] by substance is seen together with him from all eternity
[

ἀυ
]: neither the Aeon, nor time, nor anything dwelling in them
’, tὄaὀὅlέ
ύἷὁὄgἷ ἑέ
Berthold,
Maximus the Confessor: Selected Writings
(New York: Paulist Press, 1985), p. 130. And:
Ambigua,
11κκ ἐμ ‘[ύὁἶ] iὅ
thἷ ἵὄἷatὁὄ aὀἶ
Ἰaὅhiὁὀἷὄ ὁἸ
ἷvἷὄy agἷ
[α
] and time along with everything that exists in them. Yet [one]
will not conclude from this that any of these things has in any
way existed together with God from eternity [

ἀυ
], for [one] knows that it is impossible for either of two
eternally coexisting [
 ἀυ]
pὄiὀἵiplἷὅ tὁ ἴἷ
thἷ ἵauὅἷ ὁἸ thἷ
ὁthἷὄ’ (tὄaὀὅlέ
ἑὁὀὅtaὅ, vὁlέ I,
pέ γίλ)έ
12
E.g.
Ambigua,
11ἄλ ϊμ ‘it iὅ ὀὁt
pὁὅὅiἴlἷ, ὀὁὄ
ὄatiὁὀally
ἵὁhἷὄἷὀt, tὁ
ἵὁὀὅiἶἷὄ aὅ
ἷt
ernal that which is not always the same [


ὡα
ἔ
ἀ
], nor immune from change and alteration, but instead is
scattered and
ἵhaὀgἷἶ iὀ a myὄiaἶ
ὁἸ wayὅ’ (tὄaὀὅlέ
ἑὁὀὅtaὅ, vὁlέ I,
pέ βἅἅ)έ
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transformation of the temporality in which that person is
operating. Contemplating the

while being in the temporality of

would not make sense in a Maximian framework: a(seeming)
cessation of motion
would be necessary, a
time devoid of motion
; the participation in the Aeon, i.e. the temporality of the
intelligible realm. Our conclusion is that, from the perspective
of theological anthropology, the Aeon as
εaximuὅ’ ὅἷἵὁὀἶ
mὁἶἷ ὁἸ
tἷmpὁὄality wὁulἶ ἴἷ
iὀἶiὅpἷὀὅaἴlἷ
Ἰὁὄ hiὅ ὁvἷὄall
ἵὁὀἵἷpt
ion to
havἷ philὁὅὁphiἵal
ἵὁhἷὄἷὀἵἷέ
ώumaὀity’ὅ aὅἵἷὀt
Ἰὄὁm thἷ ὅlavἷὄy
ὁἸ timἷ tὁ thἷ
ὄaἶiἵal
ontological freedom of deification and the ever-moving repose
cannot be effected in a single
‘jump iὀ
tἷmpὁὄalityήmὁtiὁὀ’^
1;
χἷὁὀiἵ
tἷmpὁὄality wὁulἶ ἴἷ a
lὁgiἵal
and necessary stage between these extreme realities of the human
person. From the sensible realm to the intelligible creation and
then beyond createdness, to the uncreated God. From practical
philosophy to natural contemplation and then to theological
mystagogy. From time as

tὁ thἷ χἷὁὀ’ὅ
ἵἷὅὅatiὁὀ ὁἸ
mὁtiὁὀ aὀἶ
ἴἷyὁὀἶ, tὁ thἷ
ἷxaltἷἶ

ἀ&
#57373;
. The Aeon is
thuὅ ἶiὅἵlὁὅἷἶ
aὅ thἷ ἴaὅiὅ Ἰὁὄ
thἷ ὄἷaliὅm aὀἶ
ἵὁhἷὄἷὀἵἷ
ὁἸ εaximuὅ’
thἷὁlὁgiἵal viὅiὁὀ
ὁἸ aὀ
anthropology of deification, that is, the
ἑὁὀἸἷὅὅὁὄ’
ὅ
aὀthὄὁpὁlὁgy
par excellence
.VCONCLUSIONS AND REMARKSAs noted at the beginning of this
paper, Maximus uses the word
α
with different meanings in different contexts
—
most notably, he often employs its plural
α
meaning
‘thἷ agἷὅ’, a vἷὄy
lὁὀg ἶuὄatiὁὀ iὀ
timἷ, hiὅtὁὄyέ
ώὁwἷvἷὄ, thἷ
χἷὁὀ aὅ a
ὅἷἵὁὀἶ
mὁἶἷ ὁἸ
temporality beyond time (
) iὅ
ἵlἷaὄly tὁ ἴἷ
ἶiὅἵἷὄὀἷἶ
iὀ εaximuὅ’ wὁὄk aὀἶ
ἵἷὄtaiὀἵhaὄaἵtἷ&
#8004;iὅtiἵὅ
thἷὄἷὁἸ
ἷmἷὄgἷ iὀ thἷ
ἑὁὀἸἷὅὅὁὄ’
ὅ
paὅὅagἷὅέ
(i)
The Aeon
iὅ ‘timἷ ἶἷpὄivἷἶ
ὁἸ mὁtiὁὀ’, iὀ a ἶual
aὀἶ iὀtἷὄtwiὀἷἶ
ἶἷἸiὀitiὁὀ
ὁἸtἷmpὁὄality iὀ whiἵh
timἷ iὅ ‘thἷ χἷὁὀ,
whἷὀ mἷaὅuὄἷἶ iὀ
itὅ mὁtiὁὀ’έ
83
This definition does not merely provide us with an
understanding of the Aeon through our more familiar notion of
time; rather than that, the interrelation of the Aeon and time
establishes both of them as dependent on one another, as two
irreplaceable sides of the same reality.(ii)
The Aeon is also defined as constituting the temporality of the
intelligible realm, the temporality of intelligible beings. All
beings are divided into sensible and intelligible beings, and
while time constitutes the temporality of the sensible, the Aeon
corresponds to the intelligible. Here, again, both of these
(sensible and intelligible, time and the Aeon) are vitally
iὀtἷὄὄἷlatἷἶ
aὀἶ
iὀtἷὄἵὁὀὀἷἵ
;tἷἶμ
‘Thἷ ἷὀtitiἷὅ ὁὀ
ἷaἵh ὅiἶἷ ὁἸ
thiὅ ἶiviὅiὁὀ aὄἷ
ὀatuὄally ὄἷlatἷἶtὁ
ἷaἵh ὁthἷὄ thὄὁugh
aὀ iὀἶiὅὅὁluἴlἷ
pὁwἷὄ that ἴiὀἶὅ
thἷm tὁgἷthἷὄ’έ
84
(iii)
To be created is to have a beginning and to be in temporality.
Both the sensible and the
iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ aὄἷ
gἷὀἷὄatἷἶ, ἴut
thἷ ὅἷὀὅiἴlἷ
havἷ ἴἷἷὀ
gἷὀἷὄatἷἶ aὀἶ
havἷ thἷiὄ
ἴἷgiὀὀiὀg ‘iὀtimἷ’,
whilἷ thἷ iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ
‘iὀ thἷ χἷὁὀ’έ
Thὁὅἷ that aὄἷ
ἵὁὀtἷmplatἷἶ ‘iὀ
thἷ χἷὁὀ’, iέἷέ
83
Ambigua,
1164 BC.
84
Ambigua,
1153

.
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intelligible beings, possess beginning, middle, and end as well.
To be created is to possess temporality: this elevates
temporality to one of the primary criteria and characteristics
of createdness,
85
a status that does not fully apply to spatiality as such, which
is only a characteristic of the sensible world.(iv)
The Aeon cannot be described as the temporality of the
uncreated, for it has had a beginning, as well as everything in
it.
86
ώὁwἷvἷὄ, Ἰὄὁm
humaὀity’ὅ aὀἶ thἷ
ὅἷὀὅiἴlἷ
ἵὄἷatiὁὀ’ὅ
point of view, the Aeon
iconizes
the absolute timelessness of the uncreated and
refers
to it.The apparent changelessness of the intelligible
—
from the perspective of the sensible
—
reflects the absolute motionlessness of the uncreated. And the
temporality of the apparently changeless intelligible world, the
Aeon, reflects the absolute timelessness of the uncreated.
Thἷ humaὀ
pἷὄὅὁὀ’ὅ
ἷvἷὄ Ἰullἷὄ
paὄtiἵipatiὁὀ iὀ thἷ
χἷὁὀ aὀἶ iὀ thἷ
iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ ὄἷalm iὅ
thἷ
first step towards the cessation of motion and deification, due
to their function as imperfect icons of the uncreated.(v)
Thἷ χἷὁὀ iὅ ‘timἷ
ἶἷpὄivἷἶ ὁἸ
mὁtiὁὀ’ aὀἶ
ἵὁὀὅtitutἷὅ thἷ
tἷmpὁὄality ὁἸ thἷ
intelligible, which, however, are in some sorts of motion. While
intelligible beings are in
mὁtiὁὀ
(‘ἷxpaὀὅiὁὀ’,
‘ἵὁὀtὄaἵtiὁὀ’
ἷtἵέ), thἷ χἷὁὀ it
self
—
their mode of temporality
—
is not susceptible to change. Intelligible beings are beings in
motion that is generated and situated within a stable form of
temporality, the Aeon. The Aeon is stable in that it cannot be
‘ἵiὄἵumὅἵὄiἴἷ
990;
ἴy a ὀumἴἷὄ’έ
87
This i
ὅ a tὄait ὁἸ thἷ
χἷὁὀ that iὅ iὀ
ἵὁὀtὄaὅt tὁ
timἷ’ὅ Ἰlὁatiὀg
and unstable nature.
88
(vi)
The interrelation of time and space, time and spatiality is
quite prominent in Maximus
—
see, for example, sections 36-39 from the tenth
Ambiguum ad Johannem
(PG91,1176D-1184A).This is a major difference of time and the
sensible to the Aeon and the intelligible, for there is no
spatiality, no dimension of space (e.g. in the emergence of
‘qualitiἷὅ’, iὀ thἷ
ἶiὅtiὀἵtiὁὀ ὁἸ
‘ὅuἴὅtaὀἵἷὅ’
ἷtἵέ) iὀ what εaximuὅ
ἶiὅtiὀguiὅhἷὅ aὅ
‘thἷ
iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ’
89
—
which accordingly modifies what motion can mean when applied to
intelligible beings. While the sensible move and change in space
and time, the absence of the dimension of space accounts for the
intelligible moving and changing against the background of the
changeless Aeon.
85
Capita theologica et oeconomica,
1085 A
,
1.5.
86
Ibid.
87
Ibid.
88
Ambigua,
11βί χ μ 
υα

υ
φέ
89
We must here repeat that the sensible/intelligible distinction
is a philosophical distinction that does not
aἴὅἵὁὀἶ itὅ
ἶἷlimitἷἶ
ὄἷalitiἷὅ ἴut
‘ἴiὀἶὅ thἷm
tὁgἷthἷὄ thὄὁugh aὀ
iὀἶiὅὅὁluἴlἷ
pὁwἷὄ’έ Thἷ
iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ iὅ
vἷὄyἸaὄ Ἰὄὁm
ἴἷiὀg ‘aὀὁthἷὄ
wὁὄlἶ’ aὅ
uὀἶἷὄὅtὁὁἶ
iὀ myὅtiἵal ὁὄ
ἷὅὁtἷὄiἵ
ἵὁὀtἷxtὅέ With thἷ
wὁὄἶ ‘iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ’,
Maximus denotes all beings and all of reality that are not
perceived through sense-
pἷὄἵἷptiὁὀ, whilἷ
‘thἷ ἷὀtitiἷὅ
on each side of this division are naturally related to each
other
’έ όὁὄ ἷxamplἷ, iὀ
thἷ ἶiὅtiὀἵtiὁὀ
ὁἸ ὅuἴὅtaὀἵἷ
aὀἶ
hypostasis, i.e. of homogeneity and the particular, it is only
the particular that is sensible, that is accessible through the
sense
—
not the homogeneity of the particulars itself, which is merely
deducted from the hypostases(or, for those that attain to a
fuller access to reality, contemplated as its

α)έ
ώἷὄἷ, thἷ
‘ὅuἴὅtaὀἵἷ’
iὅ,ὁἸ ἵὁuὄὅἷ,
‘iὀtἷlligiἴlἷ’—
without this making it less real, merely hypothetical or simply
imaginary. The homogeneity of the particulars is neither unreal
nor hypothetical nor imaginary: it is as real as the particulars
of
whiἵh it iὅ thἷ
ὅuἴὅtaὀἵἷέ
ώὁwἷvἷὄ,
ὀἷithἷὄ
‘hὁmὁgἷὀἷitiἷὅ’
ὀὁὄ ‘qualitiἷὅ’
(ἷέgέ tὁ ἴἷ
ἵὁlἶ, tὁ ἴἷ ὀἷw,
tὁ ἴἷ
colored, to be moist) occupy spaces. The intelligible is
deprived of spatiality.
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(vii)
Temporality, while being a
α
φ
characteristic of createdness, is also an
ὁἴὅtaἵlἷ tὁ ἴἷ
ὁvἷὄἵὁmἷ, alὁὀg
with all ὁthἷὄ
ἶiviὅiὁὀὅ aὀἶ
‘ἶiὅtaὀἵἷὅ’έ Thiὅ
appliἷὅ tὁ ἴὁth
time and the Aeon. Even the Aeon must be
tὄaὀὅἵἷὀἶἷἶ
;
ἴy humaὀity iὀ humaὀity’ὅ
taὅk aὅ a
mediator.(viii)
Thuὅ, thἷ χἷὁὀ
ἴἷἵὁmἷὅ a
ἵὄuἵial paὄt ὁἸ
εaximuὅ’ aὀthὄὁpὁlὁgy
ὁἸ ἶἷiἸiἵatiὁὀ,
aὅ it
is in this mode of temporality that the contemplation of the

can be achieved, opening the way to the uncreated God. The
participation in the a temporality of the uncreated is beyond
time and the Aeon, beyond any conception of temporality, which
is in itself a delimitation of createdness. However and as we
have noted in the beginning, in speaking about deification
Maximus introduces the notion of the
ever-moving repose
(

ἀ&
#57373;
) which, being the end and perfection of motion beyond
motionlessness itself, constitutes the
third
mode of temporality, i.e. the transcendence and annihilation of
any
temporality. Thus, a threefold conception of temporality can be
traced in Maximus the Confessor, consisting of time, the Aeon,
and the ever-moving repose.
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There’s No Such Thing as Time Management
Maybe productivity doesn’t matter to God in the frantic ways
I’ve imagined.
I used to be a lifetime reader of time management books. After
the world shut down in March 2020, I got out of my pajamas to
meet the challenge of an open schedule. I believed every article
telling me that this was the propitious moment for cleaning out
my closets, for organizing my pantry, for culling my photos.
And early in the pandemic, I loved my newly organized garage; I
was glad to have tackled the towers of paperwork I usually
avoided. Productivity is, of course, a modern source of
existential consolation. A good day is the day you get things
done.
But this new year, I won’t be hunting for a better planner. Nor
will I be searching for the best new productivity app. For the
first time, I will suffer no illusions this January that a new
technique or a better consumer product will help tame the wild
beast of time.
Time management is illusory. Though time might be money, as
Benjamin Franklin famously said, we cannot grow our portfolio.
Sure, we can try to maximize the yield of the minutes, but as
the pandemic continues to teach us, tomorrow is never
guaranteed. Rather, we must steward our attention.
Despite all my renewed productivity efforts early in the
pandemic, I never managed to silence the beating bass of my
anxious heart. I had plenty of time, productive time—and still
suffered time-anxiety.
As a Christian, I know time matters to God, but I’m beginning to
think it matters less to him in the frantic ways I’ve imagined.
It’s certainly true we’ve only recently conceived of time as
measurable and instrumental, as something to be used or wasted,
saved or spent. But even before the invention of the clock—in
the medieval monastery—human beings have long been time-anxious
creatures.
As David Rooney writes in About Time, a few years after the
first sundial was installed in Rome in 263 B.C., a character in
a play exclaimed, “The gods damn that man who first discovered
the hours, and—yes, who first set up a sundial here, who’s
smashed the day into bits for poor me!”
Time management can’t solve the crisis of mortality, this
foreboding sense that the days and the years prove short. To be
sure, I’ve developed some helpful skills from the many time
management books I’ve read: planning ahead, breaking down larger
projects into smaller tasks, ruthlessly eliminating the
nonessential. But as Melissa Gregg argues in Counterproductive,
it’s probably also true that I could have read one good time
management book, given how few new ideas have been proposed
since the early 20th century.
What seems far more important than disciplines of time
management are disciplines of attention management. The minutes
are not ours to multiply. We receive them as a gift. What we can
do, however, is cultivate the ability to inhabit those minutes
with attention, or undiluted unfragmented presence. Simone Weil
noticed the gains of attention in her spiritual life, when she
began repeating the Lord’s prayer in Greek every day. Whenever
her attention wandered, she started over again. “It was during
one of these recitations that … Christ himself came down and
took possession of me.”
Many have noted we live in an attentional economy, which is to
say that what is most valuable today are the seconds, the
minutes we linger online—time that is sold to someone for
profit. When Facebook went public in 2012, for example, they did
not have a clearly articulated plan for generating revenue, but
they knew that they owned the world’s time.
Matthew Crawford notes in The World Beyond Your Head that one
challenge in modern life is that our attention is not always
ours to direct. We sit in an airport, stand in the line at the
grocery, browse the daily headlines—and someone is there to
blare their aggressively loud bullhorn, begging us to buy,
subscribe, believe. Attention is a contested resource, and like
a city without walls, it will be overrun unless we build walls
and post sentries and fortify it against attack.
The conditions today make it hard to attend, especially with a
smartphone buzzing in our pocket. But just as time-anxiety is
old, so too is the fight for attention. It was attention the
apostle Paul admonished the Philippians to cultivate:
“[W]hatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable,
if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of
praise, think about these things” (Phil. 4:8, ESV, emphasis
added).
Paul was saying: Your attention is valuable. Develop it for the
good. When Paul instructed the Corinthians to “take every
thought captive” (2 Cor 10:5), I don’t think Paul believed that
attention was merely a rational faculty. I think he was more
broadly gesturing toward the moral exercise of attention of
loving the good and habituating ourselves toward it: “What you
have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice
these things” (Phil 4:9).
Crawford argues that attention requires submission, which seems
like a peculiarly Christian understanding. He knows the word is
jarring, given that autonomy is often considered the highest
good in modern life. Attention requires “submission to things
that have their own intractable ways,” he writes, “whether the
thing be a musical instrument, a garden, or the building of a
bridge.” For Crawford, attention is never self-enclosed. It is
not self-gaze. It is a form of devotion to the other. Attention
requires not simply that we look up (from our phones) but that
we look out—beyond ourselves.
I’ve become more interested in projects today that are
preoccupied with the cultivation of attention—books like Justin
Whitmel Earley’s The Common Rule, which our church small group
is reading together. Earley’s book isn’t devoted to the
management of time. Instead, it suggests regular rhythms—in
time—that call us into submission to our Creator, the one to
whom all time belongs: daily habits like kneeling prayer and
digital ascetism and weekly habits like Sabbath and fasting.
This framework—of habits and a governing rule of life—is
monastic. It’s an attention project. It’s not simply an
individual exercise, however; it’s a communal one. Which begs
the question of what churches can do to help their congregants
cultivate the faculty of attention. In my own church context,
I’d love for us to become less reliant on phones for operational
business on Sunday mornings, making it possible, especially for
those involved, to leave them at home, or at least silenced and
effectively ignored. I’d love to see us corporately endeavor to
think more carefully about our digital habits and practices
throughout the week—because attention seems like an analog
skill.
I think attention is what Brother Lawrence learned to practice
in the monastery kitchen, as he washed plates. He didn’t concern
himself with time and its elapsing, but rather considered that
all time was valuable insofar as it was inhabited with devoted
attention:
The time of business does not with me differ from the time of
prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while
several persons are at the same time calling for different
things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon
my knees at the blessed sacrament.
Time management marketing preys on existential dread: that life
is short, that we are mortal. Its tips and tricks might help us
manage some of the unwieldly aspects of contemporary life and
work, but it will not teach us how to, as Brother Lawrence said,
“do all things for the love of God.” For that, we will need
practice in attention.
Jen Pollock Michel is a writer, podcast host, and speaker based
in Toronto. She’s the author of four books and is working on a
fifth: In Good Time: 8 Habits for Reimagining Productivity,
Resisting Hurry, and Practicing Peace (Baker Books, 2022).
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Re: Time Manipulation and Space-Time Theory - ROBERT SEPEHR
By: patrick jane Date: March 23, 2022, 1:32 pm
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Nikola Tesla: The Man, Myth, and Conspiracy
Nikola Tesla, one of the most prolific inventors of the 20th
century, was the definition of a mad genius. We’ll learn of his
3-6-9 code to unlocking the universe, his communications with
extraterrestrials, his harnessing of ancient Hindu metaphysics,
and his late-life romance with a pigeon… and all throughout
we’ll weave through the wild conspiracy theories surrounding his
lost inventions - Free Energy Generation and the Death Ray.
1 hour 18 minutes
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Re: Time Manipulation and Space-Time Theory - ROBERT SEPEHR
By: patrick jane Date: May 24, 2022, 8:12 am
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Re: Time Manipulation and Space-Time Theory - ROBERT SEPEHR
By: patrick jane Date: July 31, 2022, 6:55 pm
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Does the Past Still Exist?
Albert Einstein taught us that space and time belong together to
a common entity: space-time. This means that time becomes a
dimension, similar to space, and has profound consequences for
the nature of time. Most importantly it leads to what has been
called the block universe, a universe in which all moments of
time exist the same way together. The future, the present, and
the past are the same, it is just our perception that suggests
otherwise.
16 minutes
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