"Had I found strength to look back to the beginning,--back to the verge
of Time,--could I have read the Secret of the universe?"
"Nay," was answer made. "Only by Infinite Vision can the Secret be
read. Could you have looked back incomparably further than your power
permitted, then the Past would have become for you the Future. And
could you have endured even yet more, the Future would have orbed back
for you into the Present."
"Yet why?" I murmured, marveling.... "What is the Circle?"
"Circle there is none," was the response;--"Circle there is none but
the great phantom-whirl of birth and death to which, by their own
thoughts and deeds, the ignorant remain condemned. But this has being
only in Time; and Time itself is illusion."