Eternity

Eternity is the unchanging being of the Forms; time is its moving image.

Motion, time, and the heavens are eternal; the Prime Mover is eternal as pure, changeless actuality.

Eternity is the life of Intellect held together in a single, undivided 'is'; time is its outflow into succession.

God's eternity is an ever-present 'To-day' in which no year comes or goes; time belongs only to creatures.

Eternity is the simultaneous-whole possession of interminable life, proper to God alone, with aeviternity as a middle term for angels.

Eternity is the Empyrean's point of pure light, where all times are gathered into one beatific vision.

Eternity is necessary existence itself; to know things 'under the aspect of eternity' is to know them as they follow from God.

God's eternity is the timeless vantage from which He chose this world among infinite possibles, and saw it all at once as best.

Whether the world is eternal cannot be decided theoretically, but the moral law demands an endless duration for the soul's progress.

The eternal is not a beyond but the living present of Spirit that works itself out through history.