 probably meant when they wrote these things, although it's possible they were just high on ayahuasca or psilocybin or something when they wrote this. Who knows? And this is the problem with reading things that are that nebulous. You're really reading your own interests in it, the things that are important to you. A little bit how a lot of science fiction, or a better example would be the prophecies of Nostradamus, the quatrains of Nostradamus.