Space symbolizes origin and immutability; time is decadence, which carries us away from the origin while at the same time leading us toward the Messiah, the great Liberator, and toward the meeting with God.

To state that the measures of ancient man were celestial and

static amounts to saying that this man still lived “in space”: time was merely the contingency which corroded all things and in the face of which values that are so to speak “spatial”—that is, permanent because definitive—had always to assert themselves anew. Space symbolizes origin and immutability; time is decadence, which carries us away from the origin while at the same time leading us toward the Messiah, the great Liberator, and toward the meeting with God.

 

In rejecting or losing celestial measures, man has become

the victim of time: in inventing machines that devour duration, man has torn himself away from the peacefulness of space and thrown himself into a whirlpool, from which there is no escape.

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