The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of spaceBrowne, Robert T.
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The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of space
Browne, Robert T.
Hyperspace
In view of the foregoing, it is not surprising that the intellect
should have, finally, fallen upon the notion of _n_-dimensionality. It
has come to that as naturally as it has performed its most common task.
Left alone and unhampered in its movements, it has simply followed
the lead of the Great Highway through the domain of materiality. And
now it has arrived at a stage where it thinks it has succeeded in
fractionalizing space. Time has long ago yielded to fragmentation,
been divided into minute parts and each part carefully measured.
Space, not having a visible indicator like time to denote its passage
or parts, suffered a long and tedious delay before it could boast
of a measurer. As the sun-dial measured time in the past and became
the forerunner of the modern clock so _n_-dimensionality measures
space for the mathematician. What more practical instrument for this
purpose may yet be devised is not ours to prophesy; yet it is not
to be despaired of that some one shall find a suitable means for
this purpose. Seriously, however, it is not without possibility that
should some subtle mind devise an instrument for marking the passage
of space as we have for denoting the passage of time a great stride
forward would be accomplished in the evolution of the human intellect.
For the general outcome of the intellect's attention being turned to
the _passage of space_ would undoubtedly be to recognize not only
its dynamism but its _becoming-ness_, as a process of kosmogenesis.
Because such an instrument would have to be so constructed as to take
note of the movement of life, and for this reason, it would have to be
extremely sensitive necessarily and keyed to the subtleties of vitality
and not to materiality. Mathematics shall have failed utterly in the
utilitarian aspects of this phase of its latest diversion if it do not
justify its claims by crowning its work in the field of hyperspace
with a "Kosmometer," an instrument devised for the measurement of
the movement of space or a "Zoometer," an instrument devised for
the measurement of the passage of life. We should like to encourage
inventive minds to turn their attention life-ward and space-ward with
the end in view of constructing such an instrument. When once we have
learned accurately to measure life we shall then be able to dispose of
it--to _create_. It is not doubted that if ever humanity is to arrive
at that point in its evolution where it can understand life; if ever it
is to attain unto the supreme mastery both of vitality and materiality
and to come to the ultimate attainment of divine consciousness (all
of which we confidently believe to be in store for humanity) it must
be accomplished after this manner: first, by syncretizing materiality
with vitality, and then, by intuitionally recognizing the truth of the
implications of the syncretism.
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