"<p>You experience the change of days and seasons: this is the external time, measured by the steady movement of the clock.<br />You experience the change of the disembodied contents of your person: this is the inner time, for which you have no measuring instrument, passing quickly or slowly compared to the outer time.<br />Inner time is also played out in the animal, the plant, the mineral, as their changing phenomena are cast like shadow-lace upon unchanging existence.<br />The succession of inanimate forces at work: world-flow-time.<br />The ebb and flow of the universal current of humanity: historical time.<br />These are all phenomenon-times, but they are formed by a series of changing and finite phenomena. Of a different nature is total-time, which contains the unchanging, infinite divine operation. World-creation, world-process and world-end are contained in total-time; in phenomena-time the end will never come, just as creation never occurred in it, and just as existence does not fit into it, but only its innumerable arising and passing manifestations. In every minute of the phenomena-time, creation, continuation, destruction are equally present as a finite mimesis of the infinite creation, existence, judgment; but creation, survival, judgment is not there. Phenomenon-time is not infinite, nor does it have a beginning and an end, like the circle. In total-time, creation is the beginning, survival is the middle, and judgment is the end, and they coincide just as the plus and minus infinities coincide in the point, and the infinite distance between them. Total-time, what all unchanging-endless, is point-like; and the myriad kinds of phenomena-time are encircled as nearer or farther circles.</p>"