All she expected of us, at this stage of her
argument, was that we shouldhave the FEEL of it. It is Being; anever-present time;
without beginning and without end. As she said afterwards it was the only way she
could get herwedge into our brains!
All the laws and manifestations discovered onyour
side are operating on our side.
I dont like the word absolute, he
announced.
We had not noted it; a failure that had caused us
endless mentalgyrations. ONE UNIVERSE, OF WHICH THERE IS ANUNOBSTRUCTED AS WELL AS
AN OBSTRUCTED PHASE.
Not that she rejected a Supreme Degree of
Consciousness. You must have it, as well aspsychological time, commented Betty.
Remember that orthos is the operation of consciousness in itsunobstructed
aspects.
Beyond our reach it becomes only a
mathematicalconcept, not to be verified by cases.
Sidereal time, which is a reality to you, isonly an
attribute of matter: it is an obstruction.
On the other hand, with sidereal timeyou need do
nothing about it at all. It is the one and only reality, alike always in kind,though
its degrees are many, stated Stephen.
Butthere is no condition or fact that we have here
that is not at leastforeshadowed in your world.
You bump up against motion; somerate of speed, slow
or fast, is continually obstructing you. In anyevent, he does so by doing his job,
undergoing experience, andassimilating that experience. In the same way, orthic
timeis a fundamental co-existent of my state of Being. In thatno occult significance
of numerology was intended. The only actual beaten tracks in the obstructed universe
areconceptive ideas. Nevertheless she was not deterred from saying it again. For
this quality-quantity thought concerning man is as old as the ages.
There is no onebut accumulates some
quantity.
On the acceptance of this concept willdepend the
later development of Bettys argument.
Your office will not arrive for you,unless your
body, in some kind of motion, covers the miles.
It could drizzle or pour fortwo days, and yet
constantly rain.
It could drizzle or pour fortwo days, and yet
constantly rain.
Betty was satisfied that we had the idea at last.
They, too,evidently felt the need of new words to express new ideas.
And that, staunchly maintained Betty, was that. Is
orthic time, fully encompassed, also a constant? It was aword, we found, that Betty
herself had used back in our fourth session. Betty needed toextend the field covered
by that term. Something like the theory of giving a fellowenough rope.