It is ceaselessly embodying the future day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. It is perpetually revealing the future, hitherto invisible. The future is logically first, but not chronologically first. For the present exists as long as time exists and was in the absolute beginning of time. The present has existed as long as time has existed.
Time acts through and in the present.
It makes itself visible only in the present. It is through the present that the future enters into union with human life. Time and humanity meet and unite in the present. It is in the present that time, the future becomes a part of human life, and so is born and lives and dies in human life. The present, therefor, comes out from the invisible future.