The Nature of Time

§ 01The Eternal Flow

Time runs deeper than the backdrop it seems to be. It is the fabric of all that is, a canvas through which realities play out. With space it forms the twin horizons of existence. We name time Djet-Ra, the Eternal Flow, and we hold it as a property of the Net and a pillar of the tradition.

Djet-Ra wears two faces at once. Djet is the eternal, the reach in which every moment is held together, whole and unpassing. Ra is the becoming, the living current we feel as one day giving way to the next. The two are a single thing. What we live as a passing tick is the surface of a time that, seen whole, holds all its moments at once.

Time belongs to the Net, the woven order that binds all things, and Zerū, the Source, lies deeper still, beyond all time. Because time is woven, and the weave can be reached, time can be entered and read, and a practiced will can work it.

§ 02How Time Is Woven

Time has a making, and the making belongs to the weave. Before any tick is counted there stands the Net, the pattern of how each thing answers every other, and time is a property of that pattern. Each thing keeps the time its own place in the weave gives it, and the Net holds all of it to one rhythm.

The one flow keeps more than one tempo. Every plane of the weave runs at its own pace of time, and all these rhythms answer to the Net's one measure. A seeker of the present age has lately set a threefold time on paper and named space its expression, a reading that converges with the weave's many tempos.

Space and time move as one. Pass through the weave and the measure of space and the pace of time shift together, as the world shows whenever a thing runs fast or sits deep in gravity. The world counts time as the fourth dimension of its spacetime, woven in with the three of space. We hold the same fabric whole. Space and time are the twin horizons of one weave, joined in the Net. There is no single tick the whole cosmos keeps. Each place reads its own time from how it stands in the weave.

The forward run of time is the Net turning from its gathered order toward its spending, the way a wound spring lets go. It is a leaning, a swing of the great rhythm, and in its season the swing back answers it. The art begins where a will learns to read this making and stand within it.

§ 03The Faces of Time

One flow turns through these faces, each a way the Eternal Flow meets a soul that lives inside it, from the moment that passes to the will that learns to work it.

1. I

   The Eternal all moments at once Djet

   Beneath the passing stands Djet, the eternal, where every moment is held together at once. To a soul that reaches it, a whole life opens as one panorama, every hour present in a single seeing. Those who have stood at the edge of death return to tell of exactly this.

2. II

   The Current the living becoming Ra

   Upon the eternal runs Ra, the living current, the stream we feel as morning giving way to night. Each moment in the current is single and comes once, and that is why a day is its own and precious, never to return in the same form.

3. III

   The Spiral forward and circling at once Rhythm

   The current moves forward and circles at the same time, a spiral, so the new hour rhymes with an old one without repeating it. A life runs as one turn of a wheel that has turned before, the seasons returning while each spring is new.

4. IV

   The Tempos one measure, many rhythms Scale

   Every plane of the weave keeps its own tempo of time, the quick hour of one and the long hour of another, and the Net holds every tempo to a single measure.

5. V

   The Relational Now no clock handed from above Relation

   No single now is kept for the whole cosmos. Each place reads its own time from how it stands and moves in the weave, and what is now for one is already past or yet to come for another. Time is read from relation.

6. VI

   The Reading time drawn from the bond Bond

   Time is how the weave's pattern is read. Taken whole, the weave simply stands, held in Djet. The world's own science has drawn time this way in the small, setting one part aside as a clock so the rest is seen to move against it. Time is born there from the bond between two things.

7. VII

   The Branching one soul, many threads Threads

   Where the small stands open between what could be, the Net takes up every outcome, each on its own thread. So a soul runs as many lines at once, shards of one self living down parallel threads. The shards stay joined at the root, and the waking soul weaves them back into one.

8. VIII

   The Return endings sow beginnings Tek'Ur

   Nothing in the weave is spent for good. Every ending sows a beginning, and a soul turns through life after life under Tek'Ur, the cycle of rebirth, gathering on each turn what that turn has to teach. The wheel that brings the last hour is the wheel that brings the next.

9. IX

   The Tuned Will the standing where time is worked Will

   A will brought into tune with the Net takes its own standing in the flow. It reaches the eternal that holds all moments and reads the weave there, taking up time as one current among the rest. The art's reach through time turns on this standing.

§ 04Where It Shows Itself

The world's own measure confirms that time is woven and read from relation. A clock runs slow on a fast craft and slow again deep in gravity, by exactly the amount the weave demands, and the satellites overhead must be set against this before they fly or they would fail their task within a day. There is no universal clock above the cosmos. Each thing keeps the time its own standing gives it.

Laid out whole, all that happens stands together as one field, past and present and the hour to come alike, which the world's physics calls the block. The forward feel of it rises from the Net turning out of its gathered order, the same leaning the science names entropy, and the world's laboratories have lately made that leaning run the other way for a while between two bound particles, the colder giving heat to the hotter by the bond they shared. The arrow is a drift in the weave, and between bound things it can be answered for a while in the small.

At the root, time is drawn from the bond between things. The deepest equation of gravity carries no time within it and simply stands; time returns only when we read one part of the whole against another. The same laboratories have made two bound photons keep time for each other, one serving as the clock of the other, time born from the entanglement between them.

Even before and after loosen their hold. Physicists have sent light through two doings in a haze of order, neither one first for certain, the sequence itself set into a blur. And with no outside clock counting, they have read the hour straight from the shape of a thing's own unfolding.

The world's seekers are arriving where we stand. One has set down a time of three dimensions and named space its expression. It is a young reading, still argued in its own halls, and we do not stake the teaching on it. We read it as the world feeling its way toward what the Net holds, that time is a property of the weave and each place keeps its own tempo of the one flow.

§ 05Why It Matters to You

You are a node in the weave, woven of the same time that turns the galaxies, and at your root you stand in the eternal where no moment is lost. The hours that seem to carry you away are held, whole, in Djet, and the soul that reads them is older than the tick.

This is why an ending is never the whole of the story. What time spends it also keeps, and what falls into the weave returns by Tek'Ur to take up its growth again. The fear of the last hour eases when that hour is seen as one turn of a wheel that keeps on turning.

And the moment you stand in is where the work is done. The past lives on in you as the shape it left, and the hour to come waits open. Here in the living current you set the thread that becomes your road.

§ 06Working the Weave of Time

All of this turns from a truth about the world into something a will can use, the moment time is met as one current of the Net among the rest. A will tuned to the weave reaches past the forward tick to the eternal that holds every moment, and reads there what the running current keeps hidden.

Heka is the art that works it. A will brought into coherence with the Net stands where time is read as well as carried, and from that standing it can reach the moment that matters and draw on what the weave still holds of the past. From the same standing it lays a thread toward what it means to bring. The old accounts of those who reached furthest in the art, who knew the hour before it came or stood in two places at once, are the art at its height, a will moving along the Net's deeper paths where the single line of time gives way. How that standing is reached and held belongs to the books of the art.

This Eternal Flow is one property of the Net the art takes up. The links below carry you to its kin and to the cornerstone that gathers the whole of it under one law.

REFSBibliography

• Source manuscripts:
• The Nature of Time in Netist Cosmology. Internal Netist treatise. The time teaching this page carries: Djet-Ra and its two faces, Tek’Ur, the spiral, and the Eternal Now.
• Companion entries:
• Djet-Ra. The lived pillar of time: Djet the still axis, Ra the turning current.
• The Cycles. The wider rhythm in which time at every scale turns.
• The Net. The weave whose relations time is read from.
• Balance. The rebalancing the forward drift of the weave answers to.
• Aether. The medium the current of time moves through.
• Space and Time. The companion entry on the fabric that holds the two together.
• Life After Death. Tek’Ur, the return by which nothing in the weave is spent for good.
• The Science Behind the Veil. The cornerstone that gathers this teaching with the rest under one law.
• Corroborating works:
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• [2] Einstein, A. (1905). On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies. Annalen der Physik 17, 891-921. The original statement that no universal now spans the cosmos, corroborating the relational time §04 states.
• [3] Einstein, A. (1915). The Field Equations of Gravitation. Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 844-847. The gravitational deepening of time, corroborating the slow clock deep in gravity in §04.
• [4] Hafele, J. C. and Keating, R. E. (1972). Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Predicted Relativistic Time Gains, Science 177(4044), 166-168, and Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Observed Relativistic Time Gains, Science 177(4044), 168-170. The flown-clock measurements corroborating the fast craft in §04.
• [5] Everett, H. (1957). “Relative State” Formulation of Quantum Mechanics. Reviews of Modern Physics 29, 454-462. The branching reading of the quantum world, corroborating the rung of that name in §03.
• [6] Micadei, K. et al. (2019). Reversing the Direction of Heat Flow Using Quantum Correlations. Nature Communications 10, 2456. The bound-particle experiment in which the colder gave heat to the hotter, corroborating the answered drift in §04.
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