Eternity ~ A perspective

From Plato's "Timaeus", which describes his view on cosmogony.

The theory of Time..

"When the father and creator saw the creature which he had made moving and living, the created image of the eternal gods, he rejoiced, and in his joy determined to make the copy still more like the original; and as this was eternal, he sought to make the universe eternal, so far as might be. Now the nature of the ideal being
was everlasting, but to bestow this attribute in its fullness upon a creature was impossible. Wherefore he resolved to have a moving image of eternity, and when he set in order the heaven, he made this image eternal but moving according to number, while eternity itself rests in unity; and this image we call Time"

And the theory of Space...

"There is one kind of being which is always the same, uncreated and indestructible, never receiving anything into itself from without, nor itself going out to any other, but invisible and imperceptible by any sense, and of which the contemplation is granted to intelligence only. And there is another nature of the same name with it, and like to it, perceived by sense, created, always in motion, becoming in place and again vanishing out of place, which is apprehended by opinion and sense. And there is a third nature, which is space, and is eternal, and admits not of destruction and provides a home for all created things, and is apprehended without the help of sense, by kind of spurious reason, and is hardly real; which we beholding as in a dream, say of all existence that it must of necessity be in some place and occupy a space, but that what is neither in heaven nor on earth has no existence."
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One of the most beautiful passage describing Time and Space.

The passage about the creation of Time is easier to grasp. Understanding it is another matter though. What do i grasp of it then?

The essence of reality is contain in our highest knowledge. And the highest knowledge is not from our senses or the perception by our senses. It is "ideas"; that which exist outside of our sense and perception.

Love is an idea. Our physical senses do not perceive love. We feel it. Only ideas are eternal, everlasting. The universe is eternal as long as the ideas that is contain in them remains so. God, which created human beings wish to make us everlasting. The ideal being. As long as we held on to these ideals, we will become everlasting. In spirit if not in form. But humans are not spirits. And so, we are not everlasting. Never will. So, God created the universe, a "moving image" of this eternity, with all God's ideas contain therein. A universe as best as could be made. The universe, a moving image of God's eternity, has a set of laws governing it. A set of laws using numbers to give a sense of order to the moving image of eternity. We call it "Time". Time is what gives our lives order. Time is the passage of human experience through our imperfect world where we try to understand life and eternity. Eternity rests in unity? We will never grasp the concept of eternity while in our human form. For it is without form.

The passage did not ask why. Why are we here? Without this question, we would not try to seek the answer to the eternal question of why if there is 'goodness' does evil exist?