182 DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 



The most conspicuous want in all 

 that exists in time is its lack of dura- 

 tion; everything has a beginning and 

 an end. With this lack of duration a 

 corresponding lack of reality follows. 

 The real is real, only as long as it lasts 

 or only in the present moment. Every- 

 thing past has ceased to exist and is 

 therefore no longer real, and the future 

 is unreal because it has not entered the 

 present. 



The real in time is identical with 

 the present, which therefore must be 

 the moment most like eternity and the 

 limitations of which we have to re- 

 move. 



First of all, the present in time suf- 

 fers the want of ceasing and sinking 

 back into the past, into unreality. We 

 can overcome this only by raising 

 everything past from its grave, so to 

 speak, and drawing it simultaneously 

 into the present. To the eternally 

 present, nothing past, ending or ceas- 

 ing can exist. 



On the other hand the present in 



