NO BEGINNING - NO END

True Seeker:The definition from the Catholic Encylopedia on Eternity: 
Eternity is defined by Boetius (De Consol. Phil., V, vi) as "possession, without succession and perfect, of interminable life" (interminabilis vitae tota simul et perfecta possessio). The definition, which was adopted by the Schoolmen, at least as applying to eternity properly so called, that of God, implies four things: that eternity is:
1. a life,
2. without beginning or end,
3. or succession, and
4. of the most perfect kind.

God not only is or exists, but lives. The notion of life, like all notions however abstract or spiritual, is, when applied to God, but analogous. He not only does not live precisely as anything else with which we are acquainted lives; He does not even exist as anything else exists. Our notions of life and existence are derived from creatures, in which life implies change, and existence is something added to essence, thus involving composition. In God there can be no composition or change or imperfection of any kind, but all is pure act or being.

"Eternal life" is a term sometimes applied to the state and life of grace, even before death; this being the initial stage or seed, as it were, or the never-ending life of bliss in heaven, which, by a species of metonymy, is regarded as being present in its first stage, that of grace. This, if we are true to ourselves and to God, is sure to pass into the second stage, the life eternal. 

Meena Devi Dasi: Excellent. It is such a great wonder how the Truth is veiled by illusion; I am something which I am not and that God and eternal are illusion. But it is for a reason... how else would I would be able to indulge in the pursuit of sense pleasure more or less unrestricted, restricted only by man's laws which can be changed to accommodate (another part of the illusion.) There is no way out of this illusion but by the grace of the Lord which comes directly from Him (very rare) or through His pure representatives whom He is sending to instruct according to time place and circumstance of those in need. We cannot figure it out on our own. Because the Truth means the Lord is the source of everything, our own intelligence included. So what is the question of figuring anything out without God?