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>They take the instant as a literal point in time rather than as the rooting of the forms in time on a whole.
also not sure whether you think the instant is only in time or whether it is pointing to as the nature of Soul as all time itself.
The Neoplatonists affirmed both of these.
VISITOR: But for heaven’s sake, are we going to be convinced that it’s
true that change, life, soul, and intelligence are not present in that which
wholly is, and that it neither lives nor thinks, but stays changeless, solemn,
and holy, without any understanding?
THEAETETUS: If we did, sir, we’d be admitting something frightening.
VISITOR: But are we going to say that it has understanding but doesn’t
have life?
THEAETETUS: Of course not.
VISITOR: But are we saying that it has both those things in it while denying
that it has them in a soul?
THEAETETUS: How else would it have them?
VISITOR: And are we saying that it has intelligence, life, and soul, but
that it’s at rest and completely changeless even though it’s alive?
THEAETETUS: All that seems completely unreasonable.
VISITOR: Then both that which changes and also change have to be admitted
as being.
THEAETETUS: Of course.
VISITOR: And so, Theaetetus, it turns out that if no beings change then
nothing anywhere possesses any intelligence about anything.
THEAETETUS: Absolutely not.
VISITOR: But furthermore if we admit that everything is moving and
changing, then on that account we take the very same thing away from
those which are.
THEAETETUS: Why?
VISITOR: Do you think that without rest anything would be the same, in
the same state in the same respects?
THEAETETUS: Not at all.
VISITOR: Well then, do you see any case in which intelligence is or comesto-be anywhere without these things?
THEAETETUS: Not in the least.
VISITOR: And we need to use every argument we can to fight against
anyone who does away with knowledge, understanding, and intelligence
but at the same time asserts anything at all about anything.
THEAETETUS: Definitely.
VISITOR: The philosopher—the person who values these things the
most—absolutely has to refuse to accept the claim that everything is at
rest, either from defenders of the one or from friends of the many forms.
In addition he has to refuse to listen to people who make that which is
change in every way. He has to be like a child begging for “both,” and
say that that which is—everything—is both the unchanging and that
which changes.

This is the transcendent Instant, the Mixed, the One-Being, or if you prefer 'super-essential Demiurge' or 'Supermundane Abyss', the fulcrum of the Limiting and Unlimited.
Likewise the Instant is at the root of the nature of Soul itself, self-motion. That which can go deeper than Tartarus and higher than Olympus.