The Relationship Between Eternity and Time

Plato is trying to understand, mythologically, the relationship. He's trying to give us a way in imagery and story of understanding the relationship between eternity and time. Now the Gnostics were influenced by this but they took this notion and did something very interesting to it. They said the temporal world, the everyday world we're in, is a world of very significant suffering. So for them, that was very clear evidence that whoever had created this world was either stupid or evil or both.

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