When?
_I: Let me guess. The next question also comes from the Indo-European “kwo” (object).
_AM: That's right. Can you identify which particle and suffix follows it?
_I: Well… We are on our knees today, and they are always related to history, to ancestors, to the path traveled, so, I guess this question is “When?”, in spanish “Cuándo?”.
_AM: That's right. And the particle that joins “kwo” is the suffix “dô”, an Indo-European particle that indicates location, place.
_I: But that would be “where?”, “dónde?” in spanish. In other words, it makes sense, because the question “where” is about place, and begins with “dô”.
_AM: Yes, however, the question “Where?” focuses on the place of origin (dô-in-dë= place where you come or go). On the other hand, the question “When?” has another function, and that is to ask: where the object or subject was located. The construction of the question refers to the temporal location, such as saying: “Where were you while this or that thing was happening?”
_I: So in this language, the idea of time is not based on something intangible, but on tangible things.
_AM: For the ancients, the concepts “day”, “night”, “hour” were not subjective aspects, but objective ones. Day comes from “dyew”, which means “brightness, sun”. Night comes from “dnyegw”, which means “without brightness, without sun”. Time was relative to the sun, and therefore, time was calculated based on the Sun god.
_I: Horus…
_AM: The god Hur, called Horus in Greek, is born and placed on the edge of the firmament, called “horizon” (Horos kykon= limit of the wheel). The rays of it give rise to the divinities of the Egyptian pantheon, some 24 divinities, 12 of light and 12 of shadow, all born of Light: Hur. These divinities are called “Hórás” (pronunciation “Khorás”). The ancients thus divided the day into four sacred parts: the morning (ma-nean= the good new), the noon (light in the middle), the afternoon (slow, behind something) and the night (dull). And each of them would be made up of 6 Hours. The same was replicated for the 4 Seasons, whom the Greeks called their seasonal divinities as: Hours. The sundials allowed time to be divided into these 12 hours, although they were variable due to equinoxes and solstices. This was solved with water and sand clocks, which marked time based on the quantities of both materials, allowing the measurement of light to be known even at night, whether winter or summer.
_I: Time as we know it today did not exist for the ancients.
_AM: What is time like as you know it today?
_I: I don't know... More conceptual. Nobody looks at the Sun or the Stars anymore to define a time, they simply look at the clock, and interpret time as something that is happening, although if I have to define it... I don't know.
_AM: You cannot define time without space. Well, they are the same. And the ancients understood this well despite not having Swiss or atomic clocks. Time is a unit of measurement of the processes that occur in matter. In Latin, the concept “tempus” does not describe what you know as time, but as the fractions of a process, limiting fractions. It comes from the Indo-European “temp”, meaning “to extend or expand”, that is, related to the extension of a process. How much expansion of matter is necessary for a caterpillar to become a butterfly, or for autumn to become spring? The entire general process of delaying something in passing from one state to another is known as “aetas”, and its adjective pronounced as “aeter”, origin of the word “aeternus” (eternal). The “Aeter” (eternal) is divided into “Aeon” (aeon = age, period), originating from the term “aiw” (life), origin of the word age (aevum-tat). Ages are divided into “periods”, that is, “perí” (around) and “hodós” (paths), that is, paths that are traveled cyclically throughout the life of an age. And they are subdivided into years (annus) from the Indo-European “at”, participle of the verb “ei” = go (gone), which means, both in Spanish and English, “something that has gone”. It is subdivided into 12 equal measurements, called “months” (from the Latin meso = measure). Many years together make up two great cycles: a millennium, is, therefore, a thousand cycles that have passed, which are divided into “generations”, called in Latin “saeculum” (centuries), which in English describe their duration: 100 years (from the Latin “cent”). And of course, the smallest calculations you know: minute (originated from “minuta” = meaning small) and second (Latin participle of “follow”, sequence). Second, Minute, Hour, Morning, Noon, Afternoon, Night, Day, Month, Year, Century, Period, Millennium, Age, Eon, Eternity, are all measures of material processes that describe reality based on what is perceptible by the senses. .
_I: So time passes only according to what matter can feel... But if there stops being matter, there also stops being time...
_AM: Well, there is nothing to measure, there are no processes to calculate at the atomic level. As we said yesterday at the quantum level, the idea of Time only exists as a function of the processes that happen in classical physics, that which is quantifiable, that which manages to measure sizes and distances, that which manages to measure linear transformations in matter. Therefore, all words related to time are location references.
_I: The words before, now and after?
_AM: They take you as an object of reference. Before, antes in spanish, comes from “ante”, a position in which something is in front of something else: being in front of. Now, it describes a specific position at a specific time, that is, under a specific ray of light; being that in English it describes what is new, what is just developing (now=new). After, despues in spanish, comes from the particles “dë-apó”, describing the direction in which something is heading away from the vision of a reference point, a specific location.
_I: And the Past…
_AM: The past is the past. Past comes from “passus”, which are the steps taken when walking, therefore, the past is the path already traveled by the walker's steps.
_I: the Present…
_AM: From the Indo-European particles “prae” (in front of) and “-ës” (Being), whose participle is “ente”, entity. Present is who is in front of what Is.
_I: Future?
_AM: Arises from the Latin construction of the intentional participle of the verb “to be”: essere, sum; which in its intention to transform into something else is pronounced “fu” (as if to say “was, was”). The Latin construction of that which is in the process of transformation, describes this act with the suffix “-turi”, leaving “futuri” to refer to: that which transforms its being.
_I: Time does not exist as such, then, as a unit apart from space.
_AM: But it does exist as a concept of measurement between the macro and the micro cosmos. Pay attention: the universe is in constant transformation, therefore, everything goes through a process. The ways in which processes occur in one universe or another are the only thing that changes. Change is constant. For the macro cosmos everything begins with the Quantum, the Quantum, and from there towards the great, space governs time. But towards the small, from the Quantum towards the micro cosmos, it is time that governs space.
_I: I always believed that time is what governs matter, it eats away at it, it destroys it, it governs the processes of matter.
_AM: If you take the idea that it is the microcosm that regulates the existence of the macrocosm, yes, it is the temporal aspect of reality that will determine matter and space. However, everything that you as a human consider “time” is nothing more than an interpretation of the physical and material laws of space. Everything we have described in relation to time measurements has made it clear to you that the way you move through time is nothing more than a descriptive narrative of what happens in space.
_I: I understand... Everything we call temporal is nothing more than a way of calling things that happen in matter.
_AM: But when you enter the microcosm, the laws of matter, thermodynamics, fade away, and it is no longer objective that manifests reality, but everything becomes a subjective manifestation. It is there where time takes logic, and it is there where matter is expressed as a function of time, it is there where the when really turns on.
_I: Because in the microcosm matter does not follow alchemical norms, but rather follows subjective laws. This would be understood, then, by observing how in the reality that we live in the macrocosm, what we consider past, present and future... They cannot be touched because they refer to what is, always to what is, because the past was not left behind, but that became present. In matter, time is subjective, unreal, a non-existent idea, which only serves to describe states of matter, of what was, what is and what will be, although in reality it does not exist other than what is. And on the other hand, in the microcosm, it is the opposite. The only thing that constantly exists is what was, what is and what will be, that is, all the probabilities in one, the 0s and 1s exchanging their roles, being a wave or a particle at the same time, and matter, well, It is the subjective interpretation of time. Therefore, outside the physical laws of the macrocosm, time becomes “Relative”, and a particle can manifest in the past or future at the same moment…
_AM: In the third dimension, in the macrocosm of matter and space, you are a traveler who crosses a landscape in transformation, and if you walk for a year in a circle along the same path, you will see the same trees change their colors, leave its leaves fall, flower, bear fruit, wither, new ones are born, and begin the cycle again. But in the fourth dimension, in microcosm of essence and time, you are the walker who crosses a landscape in which the trees are the history, the past, present and future events of your existence, and when you walk the path again and again Once again, you will be able to see your childhood and your death again. In space you can walk back on the path to see a tree that you passed some time ago and caught your attention, and in time you can do the same until you reach an event that also caught your attention.
_I: It's strange...
_AM: The when is the where of the Fourth Dimension.
_I: And what is the use of understanding when?
_AM: To remember that when you close your eyes, when you meditate, when you search within yourself for the answers to the past or the clarity of the future, you can see them like when you go for a walk down the street. When you look at the world with open eyes, you inhabit time from the eyes of space. When you close your eyes, you inhabit space with the eyes of time.
_I: It's what I would call imagination.
_AM: And imagination is the language of the Fourth Dimension. There you can talk to your ancestors, resolve past issues, relive old emotions, or innovate, project, experience the illusions of the future, find answers and solutions to what is happening Now.
_I: So, if in space everything is Here...
_AM: In time everything is Now...
_I: The times I ask myself “When should I do it?”, “When is the exact time?” It does not depend, then, on whether that time arrives, but on how I prepare to live that time.
_AM: Well, the only thing that will really make a difference is your present, it is not the future. The future is what you intend to be, and to achieve it, you must begin to transform yourself, because nothing happens without you taking the step. Time is a mental construct, so when you want to experience something, you simply have to go live it, or it will never happen.
_I: So the When is a path that is built by walking.
_AM: Matter is conditioned by thousands of steps, the stars, gravity, there are enormous forces that determine what you are, because everything you live is governed by the laws of space. Therefore, times are calculated not only based on what you want or expect to live, but also on what each particle is manifesting. That is to say: you can't stop the sunrise, but you can travel faster towards the east. Space is conditioned by the will of an existence much greater than your personality, but it is the conscious decision of your being that must discover the freedom to be swept away by these forces, or take the will to surf the waves of time.
_I: That is why I must look with the eyes of Time.
_AM: Thus I am the Vision of History…
_I: Thus I am the Now.