TCR 30 - Spiritual Thinking

TCR 30

. . . spiritual thinking . . . 
is in no way dependent upon space, 
but gains its whole quality from state. 
State is what can be attributed to 
love, life, wisdom, affections, joys, 
and in general to good and truth. 
Any really spiritual concept of these 
has nothing in common with space, 
it is on a higher plane 
and looks down on spatial ideas as beneath itself, 
just as heaven looks down on earth.

The fact that God is non-spatially present in space 
and non-temporally in time 
explains why God is ever the same 
from eternity to eternity, 
and so the same 
since the creation of the world as before it; 
and why before the creation of the world 
space and time did not exist in God 
or in His presence, 
but they did after this event. 

It is because God is non-temporally in all time 
that in His Word the present tense is used 
in speaking of the past and the future, as in Isaiah:

A Child is born for us, 
a Son is given, 
whose name is Hero, 
the Prince of peace. 
(Isaiah 9:6)

In the Psalms of David:

I will bring news of a decree, 
said Jehovah to me, 
you are my son, today have I begotten you.  
(Psalms 2:7)

This refers to the Lord who was to come; 
and therefore the same author says:

A thousand years in your eyes are as yesterday.
(Psalms 90:4)