Ocellus Lucanus on the nature of the universe

by Julius Firmicus Maternus; Proclus; Tauros

THEOREM 8.

Time is continued and perpetual.

Demonstration.—For, if it is neither continued nor eternal, it will have a certain beginning. Let, therefore, A B be time, and let its beginning be A. But if A is time, it is divisible, and we shall not yet have the beginning of time, but there will be another beginning of the beginning. But, if A is a moment or the now, it will be indivisible, and the boundary of another time: for the now is not only a beginning, but an end. There will therefore be time before A. Again: if B is the boundary of time, if B is time, it may be divided to infinity, and into the many boundaries which it contains. But if B is the now, the same will also be a beginning: for the now is not only a boundary, but a beginning[60].