Not Beyond Time

A very long time ago, when I was a teenager in the 1960's, I very vaguely thought that the Danellians, in Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series, lived at the End of Time at which point they somehow transcended time in an apotheosis of trans-human consciousness. This misconception was abetted by the fact that I had been brought up to believe that both human history in general and individual human destinies in particular were already moving in that kind of direction - towards an ultimate goal beyond time. There was some kind of End Point involved. 

Of course, a mere million years hence is nowhere near the End of Time. Also, all that the Danellians - to our knowledge - do with time is to regulate time travel in their past for purely pragmatic reasons. If nothing else, they want to ensure that they will always be able to travel into their past and return to their unaltered "present."

Nevertheless, there are two aspects of the Danellians that lend them some kind of superior status. First, they are our evolutionary successors. Secondly, one of them explicitly states that they have been taken:

"'...beyond what our animal selves could have imagined.'"

-Poul Anderson, The Shield Of Time (New York, 1991), PART SIX, 1990 A. D., p. 435.

Anderson's Dominic Flandry series concludes by referring to a transcendent goal, Fr. Axor's search for the Universal Incarnation. Do the Chereinonites have something in common with the Danellians?