Past, present and future 

To us all, the past seems irretrievably lost. Even memories begin to fade. But time is cyclical…as can be witnessed in the cyclical precession of the sun. The sun takes 25,920 years in its circular precession, to get back to the point where it started.  

All motion is circular, and so is time’s motion. So, the past is never lost. It is revisited in the future. The recent past is, therefore, more distant in terms of the future than the distant past. Epochs seem linear to us, because we live in a point of time or a series of points in eternity. Thus, time, in our perception, is linear. 

The past is more omnipresent than may seem, because our experiences of the present become the past. The future never arrives. It is always the present that is occurring, only to become the past no sooner. 

God is the past. The present is the crucible of the war between God and Satan. And Satan is the future. The future is always arriving but never arrives. The consequence is that, if Satan claims the victory in the present, it is only momentary. Even that victory becomes God. 

All existence is confined to a circle. God is the point of singularity at the centre-point of the circle. The circle came into being from the effusion of the point of singularity. The circle is God as well. Satan only occupies a space on the periphery of the circle, and even that space is God’s. The singularity is the experience of the past, present and future. Satan’s attempt at arrogating all existence is a valiant but futile rebellion against God. 

Since Satan is only a space on the circumference, his space takes the longest to revolve and is farthest.  

The future is not infinite. Even the expansion of the universe reaches its limits and starts to contract. Eventually, the limits fall back to the point of singularity – which is the past, present and future. The macrocosm in the microcosm. The space on the periphery that is Satan’s materialises only for a moment, with the full expansion of the circle, before it starts retreating. Satan’s illusion that it will all become his will, therefore, never fructify. 

The present, that is Satan’s moment of contention to take the future, is only a moment of flux. Everything becomes God’s past. God does what he has to do, and Satan does what he desires to do. Since need always prevails over desire, it is always God who triumphs. 

God gives Satan an advertently and eternally long line. Fully knowing it will all come back to him. All the centre-points that are perceivable to us – in the solar system, the galaxies, the universe, are a reminder of God’s immanence. That, no longer how distant a point is, it is all circulating in the sphere that is his. 

Satan is consumed by the battle of the present to lay stake on the future. He has no memory of the past. He has forgotten his act of despoiling the original paradise, his rebellion. He, also, keeps forgetting his repeated mistakes and fallibility. If he had a memory, he’d realise his exercise is all too futile. 

Where do we as individual human beings stand in the conflict of the present between God and Satan? We, ourselves, have no memories of past lives in the chain of reincarnation. Nor do we have a memory of the original paradise, that we lost. The lesson is, that we’d do well not to repeat mistakes of the current life, time and again. If we are oblivious of our errors of the past of this lifetime, we become like Satan, with no memory, and, therefore, no remorse. In forgetting, we epitomise the work of Satan, who lives recklessly in the present, with his sights on the future.