Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1077

1077. But however illusory the "temporal" analysis is compared to "eternity", "eternity" is an absolutely unshakeable or realistic reality in the moment of experience or the "now", which in turn means, the being's temporal existence. Here it is a point in the scale of "movement" or "changeability" that cannot possibly be skipped or removed. Since in the last analysis this scale of "changeability" is the same as "time", "time" will thus be the distance covered by the "movement" or the "manifestation". And in the passage of distances nothing can be skipped. One cannot cover ten kilometres by merely covering eight or nine, just as one cannot become twenty years old by living merely nineteen years of one's life. Every single kilometre or every single year must go past the being's "now" in order that the distance of which they each constitute a part can actually become experience and life and thereby be manifested. What does not go past the "now" cannot be experienced. And what cannot be experienced is outside life. And what is outside life cannot constitute its analysis.
All normal, "temporal" analyses are thus absolute, realistic reality within the "now" or the moment of experience, after which they, as we have already mentioned, become the "imagined past", giving rise to an "imagined future" and thus forming the connection of "time" to "eternity" or of "experience" to the I that determines its appearance as a "living being". For the researcher it is therefore a matter of remembering that the temporal analyses are absolute reality within the "temporal existence", "time" or the "now", which again in turn constitute the being's "day-consciousness". But outside temporal existence they are entirely without value, just as the "living being" is not a reality either outside "temporality". There it exists only as "X", which means that it constitutes only "something that is". But a thing is not a "living being" merely because it constitutes "something that is". The "living being" is thus "living" only by virtue of the fact that its identity is an indivisible unit consisting of "time" and "eternity". Both of these phenomena are thus equally realistic.