Why Is Time Necessary for Knowing?
In reality, the laws of Heaven exist in complete harmony. Within harmony there are no opposites, no contrast, and no perceptible surface. Time is, in fact, the limitation of perception, through which we perceive only a small portion of reality. This portion becomes separated from the rest of reality and therefore becomes comprehensible and capable of being known.
Time exists only for the Human. Our perception is limited in both space and time, and it is precisely these limitations that make the perception and understanding of reality possible.
Without time, reality would be like a film whose frames were not displayed one after another on the screen, but all at once. The countless images would produce nothing more than a completely bright screen in which nothing could be distinguished and nothing could be perceived. However, when those same images are displayed one after another at the appropriate speed, the content of the film becomes comprehensible.
Time is necessary so that we can distinguish the laws manifested in reality from one another, allowing them to become comprehensible individually and in themselves. In this way, not only the laws themselves, but also the relationships between them become perceptible.
The laws are manifested in the material world, but we perceive only what our senses make possible, and only at the speed at which our senses are capable of transmitting that information.
Our knowledge also influences what we are capable of perceiving, because we can perceive only what we are able to relate to something we already know. Therefore, our previous knowledge also determines what we are capable of perceiving from reality.
The laws we have already come to know are further distinguished by the evaluations we assign to our experiences. As a result, an increasingly greater contrast arises between those aspects of perceived reality that we devalue and those that we consider good.
As time passes, our knowledge also changes, allowing us to experience the material manifestation of the laws in ever more ways. Therefore, time is a fundamental condition of knowing.
Time limits both our perception and our knowledge. Without these limitations, coming to know the world would not be possible, because we would be unable to distinguish anything from anything else. The world exists, but by limiting the perception of consciousness it becomes, for us, a process unfolding through time, revealing every detail of the world in a limited form, so that ultimately everything that exists can become known, down to the smallest detail.