@lukeburgis For Mosès, as others, "the very nub of the perception of time" defines the bridge whereby the temporal-eternal cleft is bridged and, as such, quotidian experience as the covenantal realm of God's coming and arrival, our "breakthrough into, not out of, concrete history." (Agamben)
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Panikkar and Guénon claim temporality itself constitutes secular modernity's deepest, ultimate corruption of Being. Put another way, tempieternity is the mercy of the Messiah. Moltmann: "The Kingdom does not come out of the future into the present. It comes from heaven to earth." Hóti krónos oὐkéti; ésti. Apoc. 10, 6 1. “For there shall be no more time.” The traditional translations say: “That there shall (should) be time no longer” RV(AV). The NEG translates: “There shall be no more delay.” Other readings: tardança (Monserrat), délai (Jerusalem), dilación de tiempo (Martín Nieto), tempos (Nácar-Colunga). The Vulgate says: Quia tempus non erit amplius. - The Cosmotheandric Experience, Raimon Panikkar Now _that's_ what Twitter's for. Sublime, Tim. Thank you so much. And a perfect correlative, naturally, in terms of 'the postponing of an infinite dimension' (Panikkar) ultimately transcended only in the interruptive mercy of a 'new temporality' come to ground.
@trippfuller 6/ At the heart of "the redemption of the future from the power of history" (Adorno) stands what Benjamin refers to as "the messianic arrest", "the crystal of the total Event" (Eph 1:10). "The Messiah breaks off history; the Messiah does not appear at the end of a development."
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Agamben says that there is a disjunction within time, “a disconnection within the present moment that allows us to grasp time.” And this suddenly seized and gathered now is the only time that can stand against the immense force of the Law and the State. Agamben takes his lead from Walter Benjamin, who viewed the messianic as an experience within time rather than as the end of time. “Every day, every instant,” Benjamin wrote, “is the small gate through which the messiah enters.” Agamben expands this thought. “The time of the messiah cannot designate a chronological period or duration but, instead, must represent nothing less than a qualitative change in how time is experienced.” Other writers also agree with Agamben and Illich in finding that time opens inwardly. Blake, in his Vision of the Last Judgment, argues that a last judgment is a moment within time, not at the end of it. “Whenever any Individual Rejects Error and Embraces Truth, a Last Judgment passes upon that individual.”...
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…Plato, too, refers to time’s paradoxical character in a way reminiscent of Agamben’s definition of “the time that remains” as “the time time takes to come to an end.” In the Parmenides, Plato points out that when rest becomes motion or motion rest, there must be a transition in which the change from one to the other is effected. But when does this transition occur, he asks, since there can be no time when things are not either at rest or in motion? Between them occurs what Plato calls “this queer thing, the instant” that “occupies no time at all.” And this instantaneous occurrence, he says, is true of all transitions, supervening between the many and the one, the like and the unlike, the small and the great, just as it does between motion and rest. A change of state occupies no time, but it occurs in time. Rightly regarded, then, it is always a surprise and, to that extent, a gift. “Time,” Blake says, “is the mercy of eternity.” David Cayley Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, 2021
![Qualitative time, studded with messianic splinters, stands radically opposed to the empty flow of the purely quantitative time of historicism and ‘progressism’. We are, here, in the rupture between messianic redemption and the ideology of progress, at the heart of the constellation formed by the conceptions of history of Benjamin, Scholem and Franz Rosenzweig, who draw on the Jewish religious tradition to contest the model of thought that is common to Christian theodicy, the Enlightenment and the Hegelian philosophy of history. By abandoning the Western teleological model, we pass from a time of necessity to a time of possibilities, a random time, open at any moment to the unforeseeable irruption of the new…The ‘splinters [Benjamin] of messianic time’ are the moments of revolt, the brief instants that save a past moment, while effecting a fleeting interruption of historical continuity, a break in the heart of the present.
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Qualitative time, studded with messianic splinters, stands radically opposed to the empty flow of the purely quantitative time of historicism and ‘progressism’. We are, here, in the rupture between messianic redemption and the ideology of progress, at the heart of the constellation formed by the conceptions of history of Benjamin, Scholem and Franz Rosenzweig, who draw on the Jewish religious tradition to contest the model of thought that is common to Christian theodicy, the Enlightenment and the Hegelian philosophy of history. By abandoning the Western teleological model, we pass from a time of necessity to a time of possibilities, a random time, open at any moment to the unforeseeable irruption of the new…The ‘splinters [Benjamin] of messianic time’ are the moments of revolt, the brief instants that save a past moment, while effecting a fleeting interruption of historical continuity, a break in the heart of the present. [Alt-text continues with next image]
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As fragmentary, partial redemptions, they prefigure and herald the possibility of universal salvation. These ‘splinters’ refer, then, to the imminent or potential presence of the messianic era in history.
Walter Löwy
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The messianic intervention arises against all expectation and in untimely fashion, and flashes up the possibility of fulfilling desires that history had buried beneath the rubble. The messianic moment is that suspended moment or that suspension of time at which there emerges the fervent, incandescent, happy possibility that justice will at last come.
Françoise Proust
L’Histoire à Contretemps
What Benjamin…borrows from religious experience is precisely the extreme attention to the qualitative difference of time, to the matchless uniqueness of each moment. If there is a point at which political vigilance connects most intimately to religious sensibility it is certainly here – at the very nub of the perception of time.
Stéphane Mosès
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[Alt-text cont] As fragmentary, partial redemptions, they prefigure and herald the possibility of universal salvation. These ‘splinters’ refer, then, to the imminent or potential presence of the messianic era in history. Walter Löwy - The messianic intervention arises against all expectation and in untimely fashion, and flashes up the possibility of fulfilling desires that history had buried beneath the rubble. The messianic moment is that suspended moment or that suspension of time at which there emerges the fervent, incandescent, happy possibility that justice will at last come. Françoise Proust L’Histoire à Contretemps What Benjamin…borrows from religious experience is precisely the extreme attention to the qualitative difference of time, to the matchless uniqueness of each moment. If there is a point at which political vigilance connects most intimately to religious sensibility it is certainly here – at the very nub of the perception of time. Stéphane Mosès The Angel of History