The Intelligible Essence

Time is continually divided into intervals while eternity dwells in its own identity dominating and surpassing time by its perpetual power, though this seemed to have an unlimited course. Time may be compared to a line which while extending indefinitely ever depends from a point and turns around it so that into whatever place it advances it always reveals the immovable point around which it moves in a circle. But then even this power of the intelligible essence remains superior to the universe because the former determines the extension of the latter. How could then the inferior nature participate in the intelligible at least to the extent of its capacity? Because the intelligible is everywhere present in its entirety although by the impotence of the things