Myths on Magic: The Web Of Time from THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old Testament, AND THE NEW:

Myths on Magic: The Web Of Time from THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old Testament, AND THE NEW: Newly Translated out of the Original tongues: & with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, with some Account of the Histories, Teachings and Workings of magic, by the Chief Warlock’s special commandment, Translators Unknown, 1715.

Now in those days, it was such that the eyes of men were loosened from the bonds of time and for them, night and day was as naught but a blinking of the eye, for they were as God and as for him, a thousand years is but one day, so for them, a thousand years was as a single day.

And it came to pass that those who walked among them and possessed the gift of magic grew discontent and they said unto themselves, “Come, let us fashion for ourselves a future after our fancy.” For they had been given such power as to steward time itself and thus, turn the future to their liking.

“For why,” they said, “Should we be mere stewards, when we might be lords?”

So saying, they began a great weaving with time and sought to bind it to their will with their threads.

And the LORD came among them to see the weavings they wove for the future.

And the LORD said “Behold, the people are as one, and they have such Sight; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

“Come, let us go down, and there, set a restraint upon their eyes, that a day be no more than the turning of a night and a day in their eyes and a thousand years be vaster than they may conceive of.”

So the LORD set a restraint upon their eyes and cast them thence from the weaving they had begun. And there he appointed three angels to guard the weaving, lest there return one who sought to bend the will of the world to his will.

And so struck with blindness, they turned to the LORD in terror and begged him to have mercy upon them.

“For we sought only to be as you,” they cried.

And the LORD had mercy upon them.  To some he gave the gift of Sight, loosening the restraints upon their eyes, that they might see and that they might serve as but stewards and not lords of time, but to them he tied their tongues that they may speak in riddles so only those who heard would understand.

So it was that the Sight first entered the world and time was set as straight as a builder’s line: for the LORD declared that a day was to be no more to the eye as but the turning of a day and a night and a thousand years, a countless number of days, too great for the eye to see and to comprehend.

(The idea of time as a web owes its genesis to the webs that appear in LightningOnTheWave’s Sacrifices Arc. The story is a loose allegory to the story of the Tower of Babel.)