moment (n.)
"moment, minute; importance, weight, value" and directly from Latin momentum "movement, motion; moving power; alteration, change;" also "short time, instant" (also source of Spanish, Italian momento), contraction of *movimentum, from movere "to move" (from PIE root *meue- "to push away").

And stand steadfast in the unchangeable life and seed of God, which was before changings and alterings were; and which will remain when they all are gone.

"In the vital phenomenon, genesis is the dynamic aspect*. A given moment of the functional relationships that constitute genesis is the vital moment. One can know this vital moment only when it is stopped by death; this is its static moment, which signifies it negation. Thus one cannot know this vital moment objectively: one can only know its effects-that is, its "fixed" effects, the stages of genesis."

"(*Here the word dynamic is used in the sense of an exhausted impulsion which engenders a vital sucession, or genesis, and not in the kinematic sense of a displacement in space*)"