Seen and UnseenBates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine)
Religion
Seen and Unseen
Bates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine)
Bates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine); Parapsychology; Psychics -- Biography; Spiritualism
That is enough for to-day; take a rest now. H. D.
V
The following conversation between Mr Denton and myself (the last of the
series which I propose to give) took place, I see, at Buxton, 4th
September 1906.
There had been some correspondence in _The Daily Telegraph_ about Time
as a fourth Dimension, and I asked my friend if he could say anything to
me on the subject. His reply was as follows:--
Time is really a form of perception, _not a thing in itself_--do you
understand?
Your limitation of perception you call _Time_.
Another limitation is called _Distance_.
This also is an illusion, or a limitation, whichever you choose to call
it.
_The White Ray is the Absolute._ The spectroscope gives you the
limitation which makes the colours perceptible to your human eyes. For
the one who is free from these limitations, all colours exist and are
present in consciousness at the same moment. But they must be split up
and observed severally to enter into the earth consciousness. It is
exactly the parallel of Time.
_Events in Time coincide with the colours in the Ray._ All exist
simultaneously for the one who is free from limitations. All must be
brought into sequence for the one who is bound by limitations.
This is really the key to so many puzzles, and accounts for so many
occult phenomena.
As we transcend the normal earth limits ever so little, so do we develop
these abnormal powers, as they are called. But here, as everywhere, the
reality is just the converse of the apparent.
The true norm is the Perfect Ray--the Ceaseless Sound--the Perfect
Vision; and the abnormal is the limitation upon the earth, or upon any
succeeding plane, short of the Absolute. But naturally we consider that
normal which happens to be our standpoint for the moment.
Already to me the earth limitations appear _abnormal_, and my more
extended capacities mark the norm of existence for me. This must be the
case naturally.
_Prevision_ would be more accurately termed _Whole vision_--seeing the
whole and not the tiny section.
In moments of intense joy or realisation of any kind, Time seems to
cease, and a moment may hold an Eternity. Any absorbing emotion, joyful
or sorrowful, may bring this experience. For the moment _you are out of
yourselves_. This is literally true. You are living in the next
Dimension. Time and Space no longer exist for you. Most of you have had
some such experience, but of necessity it can be a flash only in the
midst of your normal life. Ask me something now.
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