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Each Thing Has a Kind of Rhythm

The instrumentality of Time
Sweet Mother, here: "Last comes the instrumentality of Time,
KDla; for in all things there is a cycle of their action and a pe-
riod of the divine movement...." What is this period of the divine
movement?

For each thing it is different.
For each activity, each realisation, each movement, there is
a definite period of time, which differs. There are countless pe-
riods of time which are entangled; but each thing is regulated
by a kind of rhythm which is this thing's own rhythm.
You see, for the facility of their outer existence, men have
divided time more or less arbitrarily into years, months, weeks,
days, hours, minutes, seconds, etc.; it is a rhythm that's more
or less arbitrary, because it has been created by man, but it
has in itself a certain reality, for it corresponds to universal
movements... as far as possible. And that is why, by the way,
we celebrate the birthday, for example: because there is a cer-
tain rhythm in each one's existence which is established by this
regular return of circumstances analogous to those in which
he was born.

Rhythms of inner movements
And all movements — when you observe them, you become
aware that they have a certain rhythm — the movements of
inner consciousness, for example, not only from the point of
view of understanding but that of personal reactions, of the
ups and downs in progress; of a fairly regular periodic return,
at once of advancing and recoiling, of difficulties and of helps.
But if each person is attentive he realises that his own rhythm

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