Seen and UnseenBates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine)
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Seen and Unseen
Bates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine)
Bates, E. Katherine (Emily Katherine); Parapsychology; Psychics -- Biography; Spiritualism
E. K. B.--A man writing lately in _The Daily Telegraph_ of Time as a
fourth Dimension said something about the cube as being an infinite
number of flat planes of infinite tenuity, heaped up one over the other.
To the person who knew only length and breadth, the cube would have no
existence. Such a person would realise only an infinite number of planes
in sequence. Yet they would all _co-exist_ for the three-dimensional man
of the present day. The suggestion appeared to be that, in exactly a
similar way, events which to the three-dimensional man can only be
perceived normally _in sequence_, would _co-exist_ for a
four-dimensional being. This would mean practically the annihilation of
Time, as giving sequence. Do you see Truth in this idea, and can you
tell me if it extends also to Space?
H. D.--Certainly. That is just what I meant as regards Distance. _All_
limitations are mental, as a matter of fact. We have them here, but
infinitely fewer than in the old earth life.
Mind has always been able to flash from pole to pole and to affect those
at a distance, because mind and distance occupy two different planes.
The latter is an earth limitation. As the veil lifts a little, even on
your side, so you become conscious that mind has these powers; but the
powers were always there. It merely means that you have come up with
your own mental capacities to some small degree.
E. K. B.--Is there any help here for my constant problem: Why should
one's individual life be only _now_ evolving in Eternity? Do you see
what I mean?
H. D.--Yes; but I hardly know the answer to that tremendous problem.
Still, I will try to suggest a few thoughts to you.
To be conscious of holiness and virtue we must have known its
antithesis--evil and separation, which are really synonymous. Separation
from Holiness _is_ evil. It is a condition, a limitation.
It is to the Divine Essence just such a limitation as Time is to the
mortal. Separation is therefore the antecedent cause of all
limitations. These _must_ exist where the Wholeness or Holiness is
absent.
I must use the language of earth or you would not understand. Logically,
of course, Holiness can never be absent, since it is the cause of all
Existence; but it is _apparently absent_, and this apparent absence,
this separation, this evil in fact, acts as a spectroscope. _It
analyses, and thus brings into our consciousness the White Ray of the
Divine Nature._
We can go no further than that. The Divine Chemistry, beyond this fact,
must remain a mystery, probably for ages to come.
We cannot tell _why_ things are thus arranged; we only know that it is
so.
As well ask _why_ the White Ray of Light gives out its colours only
through separating them.
But it is easier to speak of the co-ordination of _events_. Take your
own suggestion of the cube--that will help us best.
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