If “God the father” were time, rather than the creator of time, we would perceive in him the faces of the past, the present, and the future, none of which exists in eternity. They seem to exist in creation, which speaks of the hidden things of la. As the faces of time disappear in eternity, they are also lost within our reality. They are entertained only within the present; because we live in the “present,” but of course it just passed.

We compartmentalize the faces of time because of its seamless essence and for our convenience as captives of its metrics; for time consists of an ineffable sense of presence that can’t be grasped, even though it can be understood; and attempting to define the present is to mumble in the past; for the urgency of time is its uncertain future.

In the natural order, messiah declares, “I am time, the door d—the number four, the dalet d,” a metaphor that speaks of the future. In thinking of the dalet, a common error is to count its points and to overlook its open center, which is a feature that complicates the number considerably. “If you had seen me,” said the Man of Four, “you had seen the father also,” meaning, by parable, that you would have looked beyond past, present, and future and would have seen time, the reality of which its appearances are tokens.

Our experience embraces the trinity of past, present, and future, which define the reality of temporal realms at every scale. To think only in terms of the past is to know little of its substance; for the past must be retrieved into the present for consideration. The present is the dimension in which our minds operate, making learning of HaShem difficult because we waste the present unraveling knots of the past. Even corpses find no rest in the present; for remains are soon commandeered by other organisms.

We are made in the likeness of myhla: our souls are vivified by the Breath of Life, which is as the flow of time. One with his likeness inwardly, our physical bodies are fashioned to function in accordance with time’s image: their features and functions are designed to underscore and illustrate the corporeal experience of the flow of time.

Down to the microbial level, all aspects of the body, with its organs, faculties, functions, and processes, operate within the harmonic cadences of their times, which testify of the organization and integration of spiritual faculties and, by extrapolation, of God’s likeness. Our feet, hands, and eyes are among God’s “faces,” his expressions: they speak of myhla by the image they build in our minds; and they edify through their seamless operations, which teach us of God’s unity because we experience its likeness as we observe the coordination within our own physical and spiritual processes.

Time is a crucial element of routine matters. For example, it’s time that enables us to visualize what is overheard in another room. Listening in, we can measure the sounds by projection of our physical faculties and functions, compiling a visualization of what is heard in time; and many such things teach us of God’s nature; for all things in any realm are either reflections (the image) or projections (the likeness) of the spirit of hla. All that is or shall be had its beginning in the mind of myhla. All was created to bring our minds back to la, but the mind of la is not constrained by time; for hla is spirit, while minds are receptors of spirit, even as consciousness is the reflection of spirit.