{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/sil/scw/scw08.htm","path":"chr/sil/scw/scw08.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/scw08.htm","text":"181 (II. 153)\nETERNITY\n| What is Eternity? It is not That, not This, Not Now, not Aught, not Naught\u2014I know not what it is. | \n182 (II. 65)\nETERNITY IS NOT MEASURED\n| Eternity knows naught of hour and day and year. Alas, I have not found the centre of its sphere! | \n183 (II. 183)\nIN THE CENTRE EVERYTHING IS SEEN\n| Stand at the centre-point\u2014instantly shall appear All that befell or now befalls, in Heaven and here. | \n184 (I. 47)\nTIME IS ETERNITY\n| Eternity is one with Time, Time with Eternity, and hence Indifference between them lie, Thyself dost make the difference. | \n185 (I. 189)\nMAN MAKETH TIME\n| 'Tis thou thyself that makest Time. And like a clock thy senses run: Do thou but quiet their unrest\u2014 The clock is stopped and Time is gone. | \n186 (V. 23)\nTIME IS NOT FAST\n| \"Time flieth fast\" we say, but who Hath seen the fleeting of Time's wings? Time standeth moveless in a view That visioneth the Whole of Things. | \n187 (V. 148)\nIN ETERNITY ALL HAPPENETH TOGETHER\n| There, in Eternity, events Together strike a single chime: There is no After, no Before, As here, as in the realm of Time. | \n188 (IV. 200)\nHOW TO SHORTEN TIME\n| Man, if thou findest Time on earth drag on too slow. Turn unto God\u2014live in the Everlasting Now. | \n189 (V. 127)\nTHE SOUL IS ABOVE TIME\n| The Soul, which is eternal Spirit, Standeth above Time's sovranty: Already in this present world She liveth in Eternity. | \n190 (V. 111)\nOUT OF GOD, LIVING IS BEING DEAD\n| Livest thou not in God, O Man, \u2014And let this be well credited\u2014 Though thou dost live a thousand years, A thousand years thou art dead. | \n191 (II. 168)\nONE IS AS OLD AS THE OTHER\n| A Child who on this earth but one short hour appears, Already he hath lived Methuselah's long years. | \n192 (III. 180)\nGOD KNOWETH NOT HIS BEGINNING\n| How long hath God been God? Be silent, ask not this! So long, God knoweth not Himself how long it is. | \n193 (IV. 165)\nGOD STILL CREATES THE WORLD\n| God still creates the World. Strange doth this thing appear? God knoweth neither Then nor Now, as men know here. | \n194 (III. 90)\nTHOU MUST BLOSSOM NOW\n| O blossom, blossom, frozen soul! May is abroad before thy door. If thou dost blossom not to-day Then art thou dead for evermore. | \n195 (I. 185)\nPLACE IS WITHIN THEE\n| Nowise dost thou inhabit Place, Place doth inhabit thee. Cast Place away!\u2014then now and here Standeth Eternity. | \n196 (III. 112)\nTHE HEART IS IMMEASURABLE\n| A Heart that finds its full contcnt in Time and Place In truth knows not its own Immeasurableness. | \n197 (I. 187)\nTHE BREADTH OF THE SOUL\n| Heaven is too little for me, Earth a narrow cell: Where shall I find a space wherein my Soul can dwell? | \n198 (I. 188)\nTIME AND ETERNITY\n| From Time into Eternity Thou tellest me to get me hence! Between Eternity and Time Is there then any difference? | \n199 (IV. 90)\nVIRTUE\n| \"Virtue its own Reward\"\u2014so runs the argument: If the Reward be here, in time, then I dissent. | \n200 (IV. 180)\nTHE DAY AND DAWN OF SOULS\n| Here in this present time God dawns in souls, but soon, When they have put their splendour on, He'll be their noon. | \n201 (V. 67)\nHOW FAR THE WAY TO HEAVEN\n| Think not the journey overlong if thou wouldst fare To Heaven\u2014take but one short stride and thou art there. | \n202 (I. 30)\nTHERE IS NO DEATH\n| I disbelieve in Death. Hourly I die\u2014what then? To new and better Life hourly I rise again. | \n203 (I. 34)\nDEATH DEIFIETH THEE\n| When thou art dead and all thy life Is taken up by God in His, Then shalt thou rightly, nor till then, Rank with the all-high Deities. | \n204 (IV. 81)\nDEATH\n| Death doth not trouble me. 'Tis through that door I come Unto the place which long hath been my spirit's home. | \n205 (IV. 77)\nSPIRITUAL DYING\n| Die ere thou diest\u2014dying, then thou diest not: Die not\u2014perchance then, dying, thou shalt die and rot. | \n206 (I. 29)\nETERNAL DEATH\n| The Death which no new Life within itself doth bear, Of all deaths 'tis that death which most my soul doth fear. | \n207 (IV. 103)\nLIFE AND DEATH\n| No richer death than that which Life engendereth, No noble Life than that which springeth out of death. | \n208 (I. 190)\nSAMENESS\n| I know not what to do! All things are one to me: Place, Unplace, Day, Night, Joy, Pain, Time, Eternity. |","title":"VIII TIME AND ETERNITY","type":"page"}