Here’s an interesting concept from Edinger’s Archetype of the Apocalypse, page 75:

And it seems to be the idea behind Pascal’s remark that “Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world,” an agony reliving itself all the time.

The same motif can be found in the Gnostic doctrine of Jesus patibilis (Latin for “suffering Jesus”), one who is continually undergoing his sacrificial death in all of nature. He hangs on every tree, is served up in every dish, comes to life daily and dies daily - as the religious drama lives itself out everywhere, always.

Doing other research online has revealed that this was essentially a doctrine of Manichaeism. From a page on that:

Throughout the world on all sides there is more or less of the imprisoned light, or soul. This may be viewed as the suffering Son of man, Jesus Patibilis. The crucifixion is in a sense a continuous event. “The earth,” says the Manichæan Faustus, “conceives and brings forth the mortal Jesus, who, as hanging from every tree, is the life and salvation of men.” [Augustine, Cont. Faustum, xx. 2.] “By your profane fancies,” says Augustine to his former co-religionists, “Christ is not only mingled with heaven and all the stars, but conjoined and compounded with the earth and all its productions.”

And from another site:

Jesus then instructed Adam and showed him the Father’s dwelling in the celestial heights, and Jesus showed him his own personality, exposed to all things, to the teeth of the panther, the teeth of the elephant, devoured by the greedy, swallowed by gluttons, eaten by dogs, mixed with and imprisoned in all that exists, encompassed by the evil odours of Darkness. Mani’s weird but mighty imagination had thus created a “suffering Savior” and given him the name of Jesus. But this Saviour is but the personification of the Cosmic Light as far as imprisoned in matter, therefore it is diffused throughout all nature, it is born, suffers, and dies every day, it is crucified on every tree, it is daily eaten in all food. This captive Cosmic Light is called Jesus patibilis.

This is an idea I’ve been exploring elsewhere, but from the perspective of the Apocalypse: basically an event which exists outside of or which transcends all of time. From a post I wrote on that possibility, a reader left an interesting quote from a book about LSD & religion:

This idea is the essence of Altizer’s theology. God had incarnated himself in the body of Jesus; but when Jesus died, God did not “jump back up into heaven.” He remained in the world. He is in the world now. What God did, said Altizer, was “empty himself of transcendence.” He became totally immanent in the universe. […] At first he was immanent only in Jesus. Since the death of Jesus he has continued to embed himself deeper and deeper into the fabric of the universe. No longer transcendent in any sense, he is in the process even now of becoming ever more immanent.

This type of thinking fascinates me to no end.