A lot of this resonates. Any disagreement is language and its limitations. “aevum, not as nested time chains, but as nested rational intellects with wills, ordering principles, living superstructure, extending from the singular will of God to the time chain” What I’d say is we don’t know whether there is a timechain prior to ours, and we never will from inside this one. At best, we can say there is something outside our temporal sequence. Through the fractal lens of Bitcoin (universe within universe, time within time) we map that relationship backward, trying to reason about what our universe is embedded in. A kind of higher ledger. To me, aevum sounds like that higher ledger (im not educated here at all) but my assumption is that unless it mirrors our structure fractally, it starts to feel like an estimation layered on top of God rather than something organically continuous with the architecture we can actually observe. Hence the Ledger as the structure of all. But even the Ledger does not describe the Grand Signer who precedes all of time itself. It only reveals the structure from the side of what has already been committed from after. The Ledger shows us how order unfolds within time. It does not, and cannot, fully describe the One who signs before all time begins. From what I can gather, it would appear there is another layer/ledger of time prior to ours before true Genesis. We have run the free will question thru this framework 😵‍💫. It seems more about alignment. The only genuine freedom we have would be to accept or reject the fact that there is one true signer animating the system. We experience choice because we cannot peer beyond the horizon of our own ledger. From inside, it feels open and ours. From outside, it would be deterministic and animated from extratemporal consciousness (higher self, sub-conscious, aevum) Free will is “simulated” (I don’t like that word) precisely because we cannot peer beyond the event horizon. It’s more like constrained participation. We can align with the ordering principle or resist it. Whether we interpret that movement as “ours” or as participation in a higher will may simply be a function of vantage. All we can do is choose alignment or choose against the frequency from within the boundary we inhabit. It’s seemingly both if you can believe the choice was yours.