Looking at the cubes which represent the Syce tessaracts, we find that,
though they increase in number, they increase only in two directions;
therefore, Syce may be taken to signify a square. But, looking at what
comes from Syce in the W direction, we find in the Middle Block of the
81 Set one Lar, and in the Second and Third Blocks of the 256 Set four
Lars each. Hence, Lar extends in three directions, X, Y, W, and becomes
a cube. Similarly, Moena is a plane; but Pluvium, which proceeds from
it, extends not only sideways and upwards like Moena, but in the unknown
direction also. It occurs in both Middle Blocks of the 256 Set. Hence,
it also is a cube. We have now considered such parts of the Sets as
contain one, two, and three dimensions. But there is one part which
contains four. It is that named Tessaract. In the 256 Set there are
eight such cubes in the Second, and eight in the Third Block; that is,
they extend Z, X, Y, and also W. They may, therefore, be considered to
represent that part of a tessaract or tessaractic Set, which is
analogous to the interior of a cube.
The arrangement of colours corresponding to these names is seen on Model
1 corresponding to Mala, Model 2 to Margo, and Model 9 to the
intermediate block.
When we take the view of the tessaract with which we commenced, and in
which Arctos goes Z, Cuspis X, Dos Y, and Ops W, we see Mala in our
space. But when the tessaract is turned so that the Ops line goes -X,
while Cuspis is turned W, the other two remaining as they were, then we
do not see Mala, but that cube which, in the original position of the
tessaract, contains the Z, Y, W, directions, that is, the Vesper cube.
A plane-being may begin to study a block of cubes by their Syce squares;
but if the block be turned round Dos, he will have Alvus squares in his
space, and he must then use them to represent the cubic Block. So, when
the tessaractic Set is turned round, Mala cubes leave our space, and
Vespers enter.
There are two ways which can be followed in studying the Set of
tessaracts.
I. Each tessaract of one inch every way can be supposed to be of the
same colour throughout, so that, whichever way it be turned, whichever
of its edges coincide with our known axes, it appears to us as a cube of
one uniform colour. Thus, if Urna be the tessaract, Urna Mala would be a
Gold cube, Urna Vesper a Gold cube, and so on. This method is, for the
most part, adopted in the following pages. In this case, a whole Set of
4 × 4 × 4 × 4 tessaracts would in colours resemble a set composed of
four cubes like Models 1, 9, 9, and 2. But, when any question about a
particular tessaract has to be settled, it is advantageous, for the sake
of distinctness, to suppose it coloured in its different regions as the
whole set is coloured.
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