Quotes from Cynthia Bourgeault, Maurice Nicoll, and the Gospel of Thomas on the Philosophy of Time.

“This particular dimension that we live in seems to be governed by the laws of linear time and linear causality. It looks like things come to us from a place that doesn’t exist yet, which we call the future. But when you really get settled in your witnessing presence that can hold the bigger picture, you begin to discover that linearity and linear causality is really a tiny little subsection of something that at the next level of consciousness out appears spacial.

“And what we experience as the future is actually the emergence into our own space-time continuum of the larger, spacial, related level of awareness. It doesn’t come from something that doesn’t exist yet; it’s just that we move towards where it is.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2014 Jacob Boehme, 33:25 Thurs am.

“Through a wider ability to be present, we rise above the clouds of our befuddlement. The timeless wisdom that comes to us from another realm when we wake up is what we know as the future.”  Cynthia Bourgeault, Claymont 2019 Dec.

“The future is not what lies ahead, but the larger dimensions of the whole. The outer layers of meaning. The past doesn’t cause the future, wholeness does.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Wisdom School at Pendle Hill, May 2019.

“We perceive wisdom from a higher level as the future.” Cynthia Bourgeault, Wisdom School at Claymont October 2019.

“You should often remember that all your life exists and everything you have thought, felt, said, and done is there, in a higher dimension, hidden from the senses. You have to face your life from the Work point of view. It helps you to remember yourself if you realize that your life is a circle and what you do consciously now changes both the past and the future, and what you do mechanically changes nothing.” Maurice Nicoll, Commentaries, V5p1648.

“One act of non-identifying now influences your past as well as your future.” Nicoll, Commentaries, p946 

Logion 51
His students asked him,
"When does 'rest' for the dead begin,
and when will the new cosmos arrive?
Yeshua replied,
"What you are looking for is already here.
You simply have not recognized it."

Logion 113
His students asked him,
"On what day will the kingdom arrive? "
"Its coming cannot be perceived from the outside," he said.
"You cannot say, 'Look, it's over there,'
or, 'No, here it is.'
The Father's realm is spreading out
across the face of the earth,
and humanity is not able to perceive it. "

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See also the Impression on the Imaginal Realm.

Page numbers for Maurice Nicoll refer to Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Eureka Editions:2020) unless stated otherwise. 

All quotations from the Gospel of Thomas are from Lynn C Bauman, Ward J Bauman, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Luminous Gospels (Praxis 2008)

Read the Impression introducing the Gospel of Thomas.