now
conj.
so, inasmuch as; since
adv.
immediately; at this moment, at this time; in these days; in the present conditions; in the moments just preceding
n.
present time, present moment
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Now
now
Noun
1. the momentary present; "Now is a good time to do it"; "it worked up to right now"
(hypernym) present, nowadays
Adverb
1. at the present moment; "goods now on sale"; "the now-aging dictator"; "they are now abroad"; "he is busy at present writing a new novel"; "it could happen any time now"
(synonym) at present
2. in these times; "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television"
(synonym) nowadays, today
3. in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events; "President Kennedy now calls in the National Guard"; "Washington now decides to cross the Delaware"; "the ship is now listing to port"
4. (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity; "Now the next problem is..."
5. used to preface a command or reproof or request; "now hear this!"; "now pay attention"
6. without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!"
(synonym) immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, right away, at once, forthwith, in real time, like a shot
7. in the immediate past; "told me just now"
Now
(n.)
The present time or moment; the present.
(adv.)
Very lately; not long ago.
(adv.)
In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation.
(adv.)
At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
(adv.)
At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to.
(a.)
Existing at the present time; present.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Now A fundamental concept of the theosophical philosophy is the Eternal Now. The past lingers in the memory and the future is ever vanishing from the present into the past: only Now eternally exists. In the case of man, at any given moment he is the result of what he has fashioned himself to be out of all preceding moments; his future will therefore be the working out of his previous thoughts and actions, and one by one these disappear into what to us is the past, and yet is always present. These philosophical reflections apply universally.
"The three periods -- the Present, the Past, and the Future -- are in the esoteric philosophy a compound time; for the three are a composite number only in relation to the phenomenal plane, but in the realm of noumena have no abstract validity" (SD 1:43).
"Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but 'lies asleep.' The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future, from that part which we call the past. Nothing on earth has real duration, for nothing remains without change -- or the same -- for the billionth part of a second; and the sensation we have of the actuality of the division of 'time' known as the present, comes from the blurring of that momentary glimpse, or succession of glimpses, of things that our senses give us, as those things pass from the region of ideals which we call the future, to the region of memories that we name the past" (SD 1:37).
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