[Redbook2:69-70][19750908:1443]{Time}[8th September 1975]
19750908.1443
As
we paused at Westminster station on the Underground train home the
other day, was suddenly overcome ( --how contrived!-- ) by terror at
the prospect of a Creation or Totality without Time – the only
solution I can see to the equal inconceivability of a Totality with
beginning and end and of a Totality without beginning and end
(The possibility of having one but not the other is not worth
separate concern). Time then is one of the Limits around us; and it
is possible to conceive of our Universe (or Space) as being subject
to its own inner causation (and hence unpredictability except in
terms of that causation) as viewed from within; but the whole –
extent and duration – perceived at once from Outside.
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