Subj : Back again
To   : RICHARD M. MEIC
From : Frank Masingill
Date : Fri Jul 13 2001 01:19 pm

 > I don't know, this is why I asked.  I heard it recently in the TV series
 > Babylon 5.  It seems to be the philosophy of the Minbari, but I am fairly
 > certain that the writer(s) got it from someplace else.  I am looking to
 > find the true origin of the idea.

 > ->     I didn't find that quote in his
 > -> book, _The River Why_ but I found a wealth of others.

 > -> Anyhow, the concept of eternity realizing itself in time is not an
 > -> unusual one nor is it original.

 > I had already realized that, but would still be interested to find out who
 > said it first.

    Don't know but it sounds suspiciously like St. Augustine who did affirm, I 
believe, that before the creation TIME was not.  Certainly the tension in human 
consciousness can be characterized as that between Time and Timelessness, 
symbolized in various ways by the philsophers, prophets and saints through the 
ages.

Frank

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