I'm pinging betty boop also because we have discussed some current thinking that the universe cycles in this fashion - maturing to point and starting over again -- or alternatively, that the universe both informs and is informed.
I have been pondering both thoughts with regard to temporal dimensionality.
Alamo-Girl, the ancient Greek conception of Fate -- the World soul cycling in an out of potency, and men getting dragged willy-nilly along in its train for better or worse -- seems to be implicit in this observation.
Yet from a Christian point of view, the same statement can be read as an affirmation of the "two-way street" that obtains between God and man.
It seems to me that successful communication is always a "two-way street." Failing that, it seems we are left to the Greek conception of Fate to settle our issues for us.
Plato thought the universe was a living being possessing a soul that waxed and waned according to its own natural rhythm or time pulse. If a man got stuck with being alive during a bad patch, then bad luck to him. One must ride the cycle -- which is operating at a timescale that has no correspondence with the human timescale, and in fact uses eons where man might use hours to measure the "passage" of time. Man born at the wrong time gets to be a victim of this ride....
Christianity is ever optimistic, especially as compared with the Greek idea of Fate, which embroils all men for good or ill, regardless of their personal qualities, talents, or efforts.
This is an extraordinarily weird problem for the modern mind to contemplate. But it might do us some good to do try. :^)