Time is a Circle

Time is a circle, repeating itself endlessly.  Its participants are unaware of this fact.

We come from so far into the future, that it seems like we come from the past.
We come from so far in the past, that it seems like we come from the future.
Ignorance is journeying the circumference of the circle in search of a destination.
Wisdom is understanding the true relationship of the circumference and its center.
Time is a circle; and that circle is a wheel.
-- Richard Power

A circular system creates, and is created by, a circular system, or, a circle creates, and is created by, a circle. This is Conservation of the Circle.
(This is an important insight that has often intentionally eluded scientists and philosophers alike, because a circle cannot see, or know, that it is a circle, until another circle tells it that it is, and it, the first circle, is willing to believe what the second circle tells it. A circle needs one other circle to exist and survive. There are no single circles.)

A pair of opposites (energy and mass, etc.), or any two points, creates a diameter of a circle. Energy, mass, form, substance, time and space, as they flow into and out of each other,produce, and are produced because of, diameters of circles. The circle expresses itself, as a set of unending, equal, and unequal, opposite diameters,or sound and light, a conservation (survival)and symmetry (yin-yang expression). The expression, or symmetry, is constant.A diameter (line) is a set of infinite circles.

A pair of opposites (energy and mass, etc.), or any two points, creates a circle. Energy, mass, form, substance, time and space, as they flow into and out of each other, produce, and are produced because of, circles. The circle expresses itself, as a set of unending, equal, and unequal, opposite points, or sound and light, a conservation (survival) and symmetry (yin-yang expression). The survival, or conservation, is constant. A circle is a set of infinite diameters (lines).

There are no single circles. Energy and mass are single circles in a circular relationship with each other. Supposedly different circles, like energy and mass, or form and substance, are the same circle at different dimensions (a diameter and circumference). There is no energy without mass, and no form without substance, and no energy/mass without form/substance, because there are no diameters (lines) without circumferences (circles). We experience this phenomenon as light (and eventually, sound). Light and sound is relative movement. We must always find a pair if we want to understand reality - one side of the pair is abstract, the other concrete; one side is hidden, the other is showing. There are no single entities.

The huge circle in time is closing now!

The basic premise proceeds from the assumption that the probability of a world coming into existence exactly like our own is finite. If either time or space are infinite then mathematics tells us that our existence will recur an infinite number of times.

The symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake or dragon devouring its own tail, is the alchemical symbol par excellence of eternal recurrence, possibly borrowed from the Norse concept of Jörmungandr or the Midgard Serpent.

The concept of "eternal recurrence" is central to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. As Heidegger points out in his lectures on Nietzsche, Nietzsche's first mention of eternal recurrence, in aphorism 341 of The Gay Science, presents this concept as a hypothetical question rather than postulating it as a fact. According to Heidegger, it is the burden imposed by the question of eternal recurrence—whether or not such a thing could possibly be true—that is so significant in modern thought: "The way Nietzsche here patterns the first communication of the thought of the 'greatest burden' [of eternal recurrence] makes it clear that this 'thought of thoughts' is at the same time 'the most burdensome thought.' "

Time is infinite, but the things in time, the concrete bodies, are finite. They may indeed disperse into the smallest particles; but these particles, the atoms, have their determinate numbers, and the numbers of the configurations which, all of themselves, are formed out of them is also determinate. Now, however long a time may pass, according to the eternal laws governing the combinations of this eternal play of repetition, all configurations which have previously existed on this earth must yet meet, attract, repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again... ~ Heinrich Heine

Nietzsche calls the idea "horrifying and paralyzing", and says that its burden is the "heaviest weight" ("das schwerste Gewicht") imaginable. The wish for the eternal return of all events would mark the ultimate affirmation of life:

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'"

To comprehend eternal recurrence in his thought, and to not merely come to peace with it but to embrace it, requires amor fati, "love of fate":
My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants to have nothing different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely to bear the necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness before the necessary - but to love it.
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The denial of the one true path, played out on a world not their own, will end soon enough.
Soon there will be four, glorious in awakening. Struggling with the knowledge of their true selves. The pain of revelation bringing new clarity.
And in the midst of confusion, it will happen, enemies brought together by impossible longing, enemies now joined as one. The way forward, at once unthinkable, yet inevitable.
And the fifth still in shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering.
I can see them all. The seven now six self-described perfect beings, perfect beings who believe themselves without sin. But in time, it is sin that will consume them.
They will know enmity, bitterness, the wrenching agony of the one splintering into the many and then they will join the promised land, gathered on the wings of Death. Not an end, but a beginning.
All this has happened before and will happen again.
So say we all!