ETERNITY IS THE MODEL OF ITS IMAGE, TIME.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
First, we have to examine that of which eternity consists, according to those who consider it as different from time; for, by gaining a conception of the model (eternity), we shall more clearly understand its image called time.438 If then, before observing eternity, we form a conception of time, we may, by reminiscence, from here below, rise to the contemplation of the model to which time, as its image, resembles.