When Will Tomorrow Come?

As we have already said, one of the most powerful distractions existing in the human mind is the sense of being in time.

However consciousness is always instantaneous — it, like a spark of the Absolute, is always whole and complete to the extent that it is focused on the present.

In other words, the more the mind looks back to the past or peers into the future, the less present it is, and, as the play on words makes clear — the less “present” the mind itself becomes.

Of course, the flow of mind must be continuous; the mind must have roots in the past and fruits in the future, but its maximum activity should be in the present.

People learn to postpone decisions, to regret past mistakes, to dream of future achievements or to recall sweet moments of the past only to distract them from the present, from the current battle, from the chances passing by.

However the mind already contains all its past actions and all its potentialities, and the realization of those potentials always occurs here and now, and it is all the more effective the more aware the mind is.

Put another way, the more of the mind’s energy is in the present, in the current moment, the more effectively the Transformation of Powers occurs, and the more genuine existence becomes.

A Magus must never postpone anything “until tomorrow.”

He either does it right now, or — simply leaves it as a potential, clearly understanding that there is no power in the universe that could guarantee that “tomorrow” will come.

Moreover, the Magus understands that “tomorrow” is not real, there is only “today”, and that, in coming, “tomorrow” turns into “today”.

And this is not merely a verbal formula, not merely a psychological trick; it is an energetic reality.

For the Magus, plans are matters of strategy. The Magus always understands clearly how, why and for what purpose he may act in a given situation, yet he never expends much energy on plans and models of future actions, understanding that his impeccability determines which opportunities will become available to him, and which he can seize.

Instead of building elaborate schemes for future battles, the Magus cultivates his impeccability now, and it is precisely this that makes him the victor (or the vanquished) in each specific battle.

The same applies to the past — the Magus extracts the essence of experience just as the Monadic nature does at the moment of death, not lingering over past battles and attachments, again emphasizing the present moment. Thus, for the Magus “yesterday” is important, above all, as a source of experience.

And, answering the question posed in the title, the Magus can confidently say: tomorrow will never come. And everything postponed “until tomorrow” will not happen, because when “tomorrow” turns into “today” the relevance of that action may be entirely different, the disposition of powers will change, and therefore the outcome may differ from the original plan at the moment of planning.

There exists — today — here and now… but — in the indefinitely extended eternity.

To be “here and now” does not mean to forget past achievements or to cease striving to actualize potential. To be here and now means the mind’s presence in the very process, the moment of that actualization. The mind is rooted in experience and aimed at development, but it is at the point where the actual and the potential meet, flowing into one another. In fact, awareness is the creation of that point, since from the absolute standpoint the Great Spirit is fully perfect and immutable; no processes occur within it. Yet it knows itself, sliding over itself through an infinite number of perspectives, and that self-awareness is Being.

At the same time, in each separate “today” the mind is somewhat different, and what is actual for the mind of one “today” is by no means necessarily actual for the minds of all the other “todays”. Therefore the connecting thread — the Monadic nature — is outside time and space, in its eternal transcendent existence.

Therefore, in undertaking any extended action, the Magus strives for a situation in which the action is complete at every moment, it must never be “unfinished”; it can only be at varying degrees of perfection.

Thus the world process unfolds: the world in the first minute of its existence was no less perfect than at any other minute, and its development is merely a transition from one state of perfection to another, from one stage of self-knowledge to another.

For the Magus it is very important not to fall into either extreme — not to live in the past or the future, but also not to lose the direction of development, not to fall into anxiety or carelessness.

Thus, extracting experience from the past but existing in the present, the Magus achieves a high degree of effectiveness making him impeccable at every moment, and the development of his awareness occurs not for the sake of “future” perfection, but simply because it is in the present that this is the most complete mode of being.