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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: infinite in number and admirable for their variety, make up time. And yet
there is no difficulty in seeing that the perfect number of time fulfils
the perfect year when all the eight revolutions, having their relative
degrees of swiftness, are accomplished together and attain their completion
at the same time, measured by the rotation of the same and equally moving.
After this manner, and for these reasons, came into being such of the stars
as in their heavenly progress received reversals of motion, to the end that
the created heaven might imitate the eternal nature, and be as like as
possible to the perfect and intelligible animal.
Thus far and until the birth of time the created universe was made in the
likeness of the original, but inasmuch as all animals were not yet
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