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The Kybalion
Three Initiates · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordTime and space are conditions of finite manifestation.
- In The KybalionIV includes infinite duration and extension among the source's attributes.
- In this editionTime, space, and aeons are retained.
- A place to readIV.16: … “restrict THE ALL. It must be Infinite in Time, or ETERNAL,—it must have always continuously existed,” …
Meaning
Time and space are conditions of finite manifestation. The book describes THE ALL as unlimited by them, while allowing universes and individual lives to develop through immensely long durations.
Use in the book
IV includes infinite duration and extension among the source's attributes. V contrasts aeons in a created universe with a moment from the standpoint of THE ALL. VII repeats the contrast when describing an entire cosmic cycle as the twinkle of an eye.
VI preserves the effectiveness of the universe's laws, including time and space, for those who live within it. The imagined higher standpoint therefore does not erase the conditions of ordinary action.
Places to read
- IV THE ALL · Block 16… “restrict THE ALL. It must be Infinite in Time, or ETERNAL,—it must have always continuously existed, for there is nothing else to have ever created it, and something can never evolve” …
- V The Mental Universe · Block 9… “its Infinite Mind countless Universes, which exist for aeons of Time—and yet, to THE ALL, the creation, development, decline and death of a million Universes is as the time of the” …
- VI The Divine Paradox · Block 12“Nor do the Laws of Nature become less constant or effective, when we know them, likewise, to be merely mental creations. They are in full effect on the various planes. We” …
- VII THE ALL in All · Block 13… “of the Indrawing" process. All of this occupies aeons upon aeons of Man's time, each aeon containing countless millions of years, but yet the Illumined inform us that the entire creation,” …
In this edition
Time, space, and aeons are retained. Aeons marks a vast duration and is not assigned a fixed number of years by the editor.
Reading the argument
The contrast is a metaphysical description of standpoints. It does not offer a conversion factor between divine and human time or a calculable age for a universe. The imagery gives scale to dependence rather than supplying a cosmological measurement.
Time
“Time” — 38 occurrences in 31 text blocks: Intro.3; I.7; II.7, 16; IV.1, 16, 18; V.2, 9, 12–13, 17–18; VI.5; VII.5, 9, 13–14, 18; VIII.18; IX.8, 10; X.2; XI.15; XII.5–6; XIII.10; XIV.2, 14; XV.7, 9.
Space
“Space” — 11 occurrences in 9 text blocks: IV.1, 16; V.12, 18; VI.5; VIII.7, 14, 18; IX.7.
aeons
“aeons” — 8 occurrences in 4 text blocks: V.9, 18; VII.13; XI.4.