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About
the Order of Time
'Greater
than the sacrifice of material
things ' But from what
did we originate
then? We, a Lord in the game
included, caused each other
in a causal
order fundamental to our
society and a linear order
that puts
everything to an end again
in dissipation so that there
is room for the
new: dust thou art and to
dust thou shall return...
In that
initial attraction for one
another, because of which
life is generated and
creation takes place, and
afterwards there is also the
repelling action or
destruction, there is
thus both a cyclic
and a linear
aspect to the
movement of matter we
describe as the operation of
the time factor. In
fact it concerns two effects
of the operation of time
which are there
as fundamental forces of
nature: the expanding and
the contracting
force; the centrifugal en de
centripetal force of linear
and cyclic
time. The expansion in this
respect is there as an
effect of linear time, and
the
contraction as a phenomenon
of the cyclic of time. The
two balance each
other and will thus result
in the reality of a
relatively stable universe,
planetary system or galaxy.
With the cyclic of time we
find the
certainty and security of
life created on a planet.
With the linear of
time we find the freedom, to
break with conditionings, as
also the
unique of the ever recurring
moment, so that we may
appreciate life as
an adventure, even though
inevitably death and
destruction will follow. This site is
about the time
that is not only linear,
liberates, offers the
unique, and leads to
destruction again. This site
is also about the time that
creates,
offers security, knows cause
and effect, has meaning and
motivates. And
there is more. This site is
even about the time that
knows itself, which has
consciousness, is eternal
and maintains individual
living beings as
souls, or no, even maintains
entire cultures. It is about
the time of
our experiencing, of our
equilibrium, of our
confidence, our love, our
belief and our hope; the
time that is the timeless
experience of time,
the poetry, the music, the
imagination, symbol,
metaphor and wonder.
The time linear and the time
cyclic we may oversee, we
can compare,
measure and divide, but the
experience of time, the
experience above it
which is ethereal, which is
of a mysterious, unifying
and fundamental
element as the ether, we are
ourselves and yet again
not ourselves; it is the
paradox of a time no longer
being the time anymore, of
a time that is also space,
a time that is also
consciousness, a
time that is more than
itself. It is an ideal of
equipoise,
transcendental knowledge,
might and happiness, we
address with the word
God, a term with which we,
apart from
politically/scientifically
being linear
and religiously being
cyclic, are also spiritual
in self-realization. With the
threefold division of
the linear, cyclic and
ethereal time we experience,
we are confronted
with problems we will
also discuss. Our humaneness
we know in personal
preferences: politics likes
to see the time,
scientifically and
pragmatically, in a
reductionistic way,
preferably as linear.
Science itself, more
impartial, prefers to look
at time on the one hand
as lawfully conditioning and
determining the
material world, while
on the other hand time is
also considered as something
relative and
dependent. Religion, then
again not being that
political with science,
likes to talk, with
spirituality being of order
and regularity on the
one hand, about the ether
and the 'timeless'
experience of time in
God-consciousness and
self-realization on the
other hand. These systems
of human views, these
philosophies or paradigms of
politics, science,
spirituality and the so very
personal religion, are
easily at odds with
one another. This inability
to oversee the complete of
our methods,
facts and analyses on the
one hand and our
spirituality, the science of
the person and politics on
the other hand, this failing
in our love for
knowledge, drives man to
desperation and the planet
to the brink of
destruction. This leaning
towards the simplicity of
preferring a
limited philosophy of time,
constitutes the problem, it
violates
nature and the natural
person, gives
violent
emotions and causes social
estrangement, breeds
soullessness,
estrangement from the self
of logic, reason and
principle, and leads to
mutual destruction in
warfare or internal
destruction in mental
illness. What this
writing aims at is
to retrieve the love for
knowledge that was lost in
'modern time'. That
love in line with the greek
tradition is briefly thus
baptized with the name
filognosy (from filo
or love and gnosis
or knowledge).
Considering the before
mentioned, filognosy aims at
unification in the
love for knowledge of
science, spirituality and
the respect for the
person - religious or not -
and his ethereal
connectedness, in such a
manner that each and
everyone, without being
estranged, is capable of
having a full life with it,
or may find an order of life
so that it becomes something
concrete to us. For it is
because of the one-sided and
mutually estranged opinions
about time, that we have
denied each other our
lives and therewith have
disqualified ourselves as
societies. The
purpose is to make the
progress real in such a way
that we, in a
non-repressive manner, offer each
other, and
ourselves as a
society, a life again.
Non-repressive
progress, a form of progress
that does not go at the cost
of others, of
previous cultures or of
nature at large, is what
this site is
envisioning. Only
that
way there will be a
perspective of a world
culture of respect for all
human identities. This
appoach of
integrating the six basic
human perspectives as
mentioned, is symbolized in
the logo star of the site: This all
together implies that we
will not
directly be simplifying
matters. Counting with
others happens to be a
complex matter. Thus we have
a big site here with
methodical
expositions and scientific
tables, spiritual and
analytical discourses
and religiously colored,
personal and political
accounts. As said, the
order of presentation of
these three sections must be
taken relative.
On the internet the
knowledge, being presented
as a site, is more
easily considered in a
cyclic manner with a
circular interface like the
figure above. Thus the free
choice of taking up this
matter is clearer.
With the same subject
seen in the form of a book
though, one may read trough
this tree of
knowledge with its branches
stretching to all sides thus
from section
two to section three, to end
with section one as the
conclusion; or
differently, starting with
the last section end with
the second one or
simply read the texts from
the beginning to the end by
neatly following
the suggested causal order
as indicated by the red
button below. It may
be clear that we're not
saying here that, despite of
the indeed
existing causality, science
would find its fulfillment
in religion or
that, with another idea of
causation, spirituality
would be the
end result of one's
self-realization. We not
only stress here the
cyclic
relativizing of linear
consciousness, but also the
integration in the
ether of the spirituality of
each and all in a well
integrated,
scientifically founded,
democratic society of
religious norms and
standards, but then without
the estrangement, the
airiness and the
cultism. Part
I
B
Facts.
For the science
department
there are three tables for
the sun, the moon and an
alternative
calendar called the cakra calendar,
or Full calendar of Order,
which
divides the solar year the
way the moon divides the
lunar year. There
is also a selection of
articles from diverse time
sciences, articles
about time oddities and a
designs page. Next to the
pages on the order
of the time of the moon,
de sun and the galaxy a
basic concept of
philosophy is added that puts all this
science of time in a
meaningful perspective. Part
II
B
Spirituality.
For the spiritual
department there is a free
on-line basic
e-book called The Other
Rules and further
articles, a guide and
instruction pages on more
specific subjects, that
together describe the
more general aspects
relevant for a person to
relate, in a more natural
and
spiritually healthy way,
to the system of standard
time. Part III
B
Politics.
For the political
department there is a
manifesto describing
how societies did function
and should function
concerning matters of
human values, employment,
authority, representation,
economy, the
digital age and time
management, to name a few
subjects discussed in
this treatise. Next to
this manifesto there are
articles on the concept
of time and a new world
order, the year count,
cynicism, elections,
dualism and how to hearten
posterity with the
internet. More
in
detail: At the different
departments there are serveral
free accessible on-line
e-books
collected which add to the
purpose of the
Order of Time in promoting
integral publishing of
e-books without prior
commercial control. The idea
is that essential knowledge
may not be
obstructed by commercial
conditioning and
possessiveness. Still from
this .com site one may expect to
be able to buy this info
also in print or pdf because
of the less
digitized part of society.
But the priority lies with
digitization.
The
basic confession of the
whole approach is the apollonian
sober
sense of truth and the soul,
as is most clearly explained
in the charter
of order
(as opposed to the
hedonistic, dyonisian
principle - although there
is also room for intergating
the two, see
the fields-table). It
can
be said that the Order of
Time constitutes a concept
of societal order
that is progressive, that is
to say, it
represents the fundamental
knowledge and rules of
present-day society
and offers also a clear
vision of its next phase in
evolution and
emancipation. This concept
is derived from the lore of
Vedic wisdom
spread in the western world
in the second half of the
twentieth
century. It can be
considered an adaptation in
western terms of the
oldest of human culture
fixed in Sanskrit, for which
the new term filognosy
(love
for knowledge) has been
introduced. For the purpose
of this the emphasis
lies on the (scientific, political
and spiritual)
sacrificing of the
impersonal nature of
God. The sacrifice of a good
system will do justice to
the interest of
the person, just as the
other way around a good
person sacrificing will
do justice to a righteous
system. For the sake of the
personal interest
the Vedic
scriptures
are respected of
which several unique
translations can be found on
this site. Factually
this, together with the
political option mentioned
above, amounts to an alternative
calendar
and clock in
better agreement with the
'complete whole' of time and
its
diversity of religious and
cultural preferences of the
world. This
concept is not meant as a
repression of the existing
roman calendar and
its standard time.
It is to be understood as
complementary to the
existing system, offering a
new concept of time
consciousness in favor of
an, as
said, more natural and
relaxed tempo of life and an
unprecedented
freedom of choice in time management.
To the Order
of Time there is therefore
basically no
single political or
subcultural confession, even
though there is a clear but
holistic confession to the Vedic
foundation
of knowledge. Concerning
the
subject of time
specifically, one finds here
the proposal
of a calendarscheme and
timescale that provides a uniform
24-division
of
matching days with dates,
uncovering a harmonious
(rational, parsimonious and
less
psychologically complicated)
concept of time. For its
practical
mangement next to the tables
under science
there is a
design for a simplified
(not with all the planets)
version of the
classical astrarium (a
clock indicating the
relative positions of the
earth, the
sun, the moon
and the
stars)
to figure as the paradigm,
common denominator or model
of
thought to control and
master the diversity of
cultural timerespect of
our present age. To this
innovation of time respect
the name Aquarian
is used as also the Sanskrit
root cakra (meaning:
the
celestial sky as derived
from the meaning of 'wheel'
or 'disc'), wich is
also denoted as cosmic. In sum this
alternative concept of time
consciousness of the Order
of Time, enriches the
existing culture with a
second mind of order for
settling not only times and
days of festivity,
study, socializing, doing
business, being privately
active and
media
arrest in
control over standardtime
realities, but also for
settling a new age of real
progress for
our world order. *
See also the
purpose more explicitly
explained by the instruction-site
Filognosy. There
is also a hypertext page
summarizing
the
content of the site
in offering an 0verview of
all interface texts of the
site.
About
the
Order
of Time
Summary
description:
Filognosy
or
the Order of Time:
'How to have a life?'
is the sacrifice of knowledge, o
chastiser of the
enemy;
all this karma in sum, o son of
Prithâ,
finds its end in
knowledge.'
(Vyâsadeva, Bhagavad
Gîtâ 4: 33)
Preface
Writing a
story one creates, like with a
book, a
linear structure. First a
preface is written, next
follows chapter one,
etc. The knowledge presented
in a book creates the
impression that
there would be a compelling
order of appearance in which
one thing
would precede and constitute a
prerequisite for what follows;
the story
knows a plot, a preconceived
idea of cause and effect. The
existence of
a causal order thus is
unmistakably true: first one
makes love and next
one sees a child being born,
first one sees lightning and
then one
hears a clap of thunder, that
suffers no doubt. But the
child grows up
and has a child itself, the
clap of thunder rests till
there is a bolt of
lightning. The causality, the
phenomenon that one thing
gives
rise to another thing, that
one thing logically follows
from another
thing, is part of a cyclic
order of repeating
occurrences, and that also
is unmistakable; after a day
there is a night and following
the night
there is the day, and arriving
in the Far East the West is
found in the
east. And with that another
meaning is found to the idea
of causality.
Although one thing follows the
other, one may wonder what
would have
caused what, what would be
there first? Does the light
lead to darkness
or the darkness to the light?
There is causality, but we
are not as
certain anymore as to what
exactly would come first, God
or devil, the
impersonal or the personal,
science or religion, man
or ape, good or bad, the
chicken or the egg, etc.
In fact is
it so that in a strictly
linear universe
in which there is nothing
cyclic to be found, there is
no causality at
all, nothing is generated
there, nothing is caused.
With linear time
only, we would still be the
separate energy particles of
the big bang that never
ending thin and spread out
into space in an ever
expanding universe...
Causality thus is evidently
linked, if not equal to, a
cyclic order in
which things give rise to each
other: hydrogen and oxygen
combined give
water, and so, from one
chemical reaction to the
other, a complexity is
generated in which we next
find ourselves back as
created, or
conditioned, beings depending
on circumstances.
A Method.
To imbed this island of
realization in the
internet, there is next
to a
general info-section
with considerations on the
way to proceed, a
cyber-section with a
humanities directory
and other more specific
linkpages that
together have resulted from
linking to all relevant
sites concerning
the subject and other sites
that felt themselves at
their place here.
A
Analysis.
As
an extra to counterbalance
all this rationality there
is an art-department
offering analytical insight
into the
structure, the operation and
the emotional experience and
expression of filognosy.
A
Personal.
The personal
department
gives room to the emotional
and religious
aspects of time
consciousness. There is room
for the story of the
author; how did we arrive at
these insights and this
responisbility?
And what authority is that
responsibility faithful to?
What texts are
we involved in precisely?
What is the meaning of the
concepts of
identity and participation?