A Primer of Higher Space (the Fourth Dimension) |
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3-SPACE 4-DIMENSIONAL 4TH DIMENSION ANALOGY BERS bound BOUNDARIES OR CROSS-SECTIONS CHIG AN UNIVERS CHIG RSITY CHIG UNIV SITY CIRCLE conceive CONTAINS AN INFINITE CORRESPONDING cube body DIAGONALS DIMENSION OF SPACE DIMENSIONAL direction at right existence fellow plane-beings film world four four-dimensional space FOURTH DIMENSION GEOMETRICAL higher space hypothesis higher-dimensional hyper-cube HYPERSPACE idea INFINITE NUMBER LINEAR LOWER SPACES MAGIC CUBE MAGIC LINE MAGIC SQUARE MAGIC TESSERACT manifest MIC UNIV MICHI SITY MICHI UNIVE MICHIGAN motion MOVING ness number of dimensions perception PERPENDICULAR phenomenal world physical plane space plane world Planebeauty PLANELOVE Planewisdom POINT RELATIONS REPRESENTS right angles ROTATION RSITY CHIG RSITY UNIV sides SIONAL SITYCO small cubes SPACE WORLD SPHERE surface symmetrical third dimension three dimensions three-dimensional space three-space tion traces transcendental two-dimensional two-space UNITS UNIV AN MICHI UNIV CHIG UNIV UNIV GAN UNIV MICHIG UNIV SITY UNIV UNIV UNIV UNIVE AN UNIV UNIVERSE UNIV VERTICAL WIRE
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Page 19 - Either one of two things must be true, that fourdimensional conceptions give a wonderful power of representing the thought of the East, or that the thinkers of the East must have been looking at and regarding four-dimensional existence.
Page 14 - From the standpoint of every animal organism we can divide external nature into two parts, which are the more unequal as the organic grade is lower— the one includes that part with which the sense apparatus establishes relations; the other is transcendental for the organism in question; that is, the organism lives in no relation to it. In the biological process the boundary line between these two world-halves has been pushed continually forward in the same direction. The number of senses has increased...
Page 19 - If it is possible that there be developments of other dimensions in space, it is also very probable that God has somewhere produced them. For His works have all the grandeur and variety that can possibly be comprised.
Page 59 - A |' or again £^ • ^e triangle in the square and the synthesising point in the interlaced double triangles. This for the world of the archetypes. The phenomenal world receives its culmination and the reflex of all in MAN. Therefore he is the mystic square — in his metaphysical aspect— the Tetraktis ; and becomes the Cube on the creative plain. His symbol is the cube unfolded! and 6 becoming 7, or the...
Page 77 - ... physical matter (the film world), each transit being an incarnation, a personal life. The events of each life seem, to the personal consciousness, to slip away into nothingness, never to be recovered; but every experience of every film life, all of its contacts with other cubes, are indelibly impressed upon the higher body and by the cube-consciousness may be recovered at will, since all inhere in the bounding planes of the cube. For this reason, when cube consciousness is attained by the personality...
Page 74 - Heaven is all about you: a city lying four-square, clear as glass and filled with light. Here your real, your immortal selves, have their true home. This world of yours which seems so substantial is but a mutable and many-colored film staining the bright radiance of this crystal heaven. Your lives are but tracings made by your immortal selves in this film world. How shall you learn the...