Time and Eternity

To bring this Cosmos into being the Soul first laid aside its eternity and clothed itself with Time.

                       - Plotinus

I am full of awe. How can you come up with such a sentence? I am deeply impressed. It is full of wisdom and poetry.
If you deal with concepts of time for a while, the merciless truths of irreversible thermodynamics or time dilation it is very pleasing to come across such a quotation.
Plotinus further stated: "And this is why Time can never be broken apart, any more than Eternity which, similarly, under diverse manifestations, has its Being as an integral constituent of all the eternal Existences."

Let that be a lesson to all the slaves and slave keepers of the clock. Time can never be broken apart!
In the realm of clock time it is sometimes hard to escape. It is hard to escape the close association between clocks and time.

Even as I am writing this, in my room a clock is ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.
In the upper right corner of my screen there is a date and the time. I think it will be my focus, my objective, my goal, my dream, my utopia, to get rid of clock time. Somehow it seems to be the same problem as to undo technology. Was the introduction of clock time an irreversible process.

What did the Soul do to us when she clothed herself in Time? Well, create us. And it is not clock time, that Plotinus talked about. It is something richer, fuller, more all-encompassing as the commodity, the exchange value, the Procrustes' Bed of clock time.