Help Her Live

"Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally,
because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

And I speak now of all individual men and not solely of man. Nothing in the universe is unknown, nothing real is ultimately forgotten.
The atom that moves in an immeasurable path today and the atom that moved in an immeasurable path billions of years ago are rooted in the eternal ground.

There is no absolute, no completely forgotten past, because the past, like the future, is rooted in the divine life.

Nothing is completely pushed into the past.
Nothing real is absolutely lost and forgotten.
We are together with everything real in the divine life.

Only the unreal, in us and around us, is pushed into the past forever.

This is what "last judgment" means--to separate in us, as in everything, what has true and final being from what is merely transitory and empty of true being. We are never forgotten, but much in us that we liked and for which we longed may be forgotten forever.

Such judgment goes on in every moment of our lives, but the process is hidden in time and manifest only in eternity.

Therefore, let us push into the past and forget what should be forgotten forever,
and let us go forward to that which expresses our true being and cannot be lost in eternity."

The Eternal Now. Paul Tillich. Theologian.

Original art by Heather Thompson Blue Phoenix Art
Title "Help Her Live"
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