AN instructor at Harvard once said to the writer that, if Christian Science is true, the past as well as the present and the future will be redeemed. The truth, the large implications, and the beneficence of this perception have been dawning and unfolding ever since.
Since what we call the past and the future are only different ways of conceiving of the present, all redemption must be in the present. As Kant saw, the sense of time as well as that of space arises from the belief in finiteness. Since mortals are unable to see all things at once, they see them as a succession and as an extension of experiences. This succession of finite experience gives rise to the sense of time; that of extension, to space. To infinite Mind, eternally embracing all things in one and in every instant of consciousness, there is no possibility of the mortal sense of either time or space. To this Mind all things are forever here and now. In our highest states of mentality and finest activities of life, we lose the sense of time. Sidney Lanier's fine line,—
I leapt the breadth of time in loving thee—!
