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Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

By Samael Aun Weor

Chapter 4: Time

If we attentively observe anything in this illusory world in which we live, such as a table, for instance, we discover with mystical astonishment three perfectly defined aspects, namely: length, width, and height. However, it is evident that in the table used in our example, there is a specific and totally defined fourth factor. I am referring to the concept of time. How much time has passed since that gleaming table was created by the humble carpenter? Only minutes? Maybe hours? Months? Years?

Length, width, and height are without any possible doubt (even if they are Cartesian) the three Euclidean aspects of this three-dimensional world within which, for good or for bad, we live. It is evident that it would be absurd to exclude the fourth factor from our postulations.

Thus, considering time as the fourth dimension, it intrinsically contains two fundamental properties, namely temporal and spatial.

It is positive, authentic, and undeniable that the chronometric aspect of life is exclusively the unstable surface of the spatial depth.

Many years before, prior to the time of the wise Einstein who surprised the world with his famous Theory of Relativity, any learned person conceived the factor of time as a straight line. However, in this day and age, any intellectual person accepts that factor is a curve. Nonetheless, it is also obvious that in this present century, there are still people who think with a medieval mind. Great, modern, intellectual people, utopians by nature, beautifully fantasize when thinking that eternity is also a straight line, time prolongated in an indefinite way.

Revolutionary Gnosticism dialectally teaches that eternity has nothing to do with the concept of time. The international Gnostic movement emphatically affirms that there is a fifth dimension, known by the solemn name eternity.

In accordance with the wise law of recurrence, everything in life comes to occur again just as it happened previously within the vicious circle of time. Indeed, times are eternally repeated. Yet, let not time be confused with eternity.

There is an incessant repetition of events and times within the Eternal Now of the great life.

The curve of time perfectly revolves within the perfect circle of eternity, yet it is evident that these two wheels are different.

That which is beyond these two mysterious circles is the sixth dimension, and we must search for the living foundation of any cosmogenesis within the unknowable zero region.

Considering that the wise Einstein already mathematically demonstrated the relativity of time, we can emphasize the idea that the fourth factor (time) of our three-dimensional world has no existence within the Unmanifested Absolute. Before the flaming heart from this solar system of Ors (within which we live, move and have our Being) started to intensely palpitate after the great pralaya (cosmic night), time did not exist. It was lying asleep within the profound bosom of the Abstract Absolute Space.

If at the end of the mahamanvantara (cosmic day), the seven basic dimensions of the universe remain reduced into a simple mathematical point lost as a drop within the great ocean, then it is evident that time ceases to exist.⁠¹

The worlds, as well as human beings, animals, and plants, are born, grow up, get old, and die. Everything that breathes under the sun has a defined period of time.

The unity of life of any living creature is equivalent, as a fact and by its own right, to every single palpitation of its heart.

Indeed, it has been wisely stated unto us that the whole starry heaven is a system of hearts that intensely palpitate.

It is evident that each palpitation from the worlds is performed every 27,000 years.

The whole life of any world that sparkles and blazes within the profound bosom of the inalterable infinite is equivalent to the total amount of 2,700,000,000 palpitations from the cosmic heart.

The humble insect that only lives for an evening in summer, lives, indeed, as much as any human being or any world, just in a very accelerated way.

It is written with embers of ardent fire that the number of cardiac palpitations for beasts, human beings, and worlds is always the same; however, sometimes faster or slower.

Time is extremely relative.⁠² Thus, on the stage show of the world pass by many actors who carry their own chronometer.

Moreover, there are secret calculations and esoteric time. This is known by any adept.

1 “Time was not, for it lay asleep in the infinite bosom of duration.” —Stanzas of Dzyan 1:2

2 “Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but “lies asleep.” The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future, from that part which we call the past. Nothing on earth has real duration, for nothing remains without change -- or the same -- for the billionth part of a second; and the sensation we have of the actuality of the division of “time” known as the present, comes from the blurring of that momentary glimpse, or succession of glimpses, of things that our senses give us, as those things pass from the region of ideals which we call the future, to the region of memories that we name the past. In the same way we experience a sensation of duration in the case of the instantaneous electric spark, by reason of the blurred and continuing impression on the retina. The real person or thing does not consist solely of what is seen at any particular moment, but is composed of the sum of all its various and changing conditions from its appearance in the material form to its disappearance from the earth. It is these “sum-totals” that exist from eternity in the “future,” and pass by degrees through matter, to exist for eternity in the “past.” No one could say that a bar of metal dropped into the sea came into existence as it left the air, and ceased to exist as it entered the water, and that the bar itself consisted only of that cross-section thereof which at any given moment coincided with the mathematical plane that separates, and, at the same time, joins, the atmosphere and the ocean. Even so of persons and things, which, dropping out of the to-be into the has-been, out of the future into the past -- present momentarily to our senses a cross-section, as it were, of their total selves, as they pass through time and space (as matter) on their way from one eternity to another: and these two constitute that “duration” in which alone anything has true existence, were our senses but able to cognize it there.” —H.P.Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine