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
the terminus would be the opposite of the starting point. Then, too,
it might be said that if we sought the space-center we should arrive
at the circumference. The difficulty with this view is that there is
a very remote, though important, connection between it and the truth
of the matter. But the partiality of this view, and the absence of
either experience or intuition to intimate a more reasonable view,
serve effectively to buttress it as a hypothesis acceptable to many.
Thus it is ever more difficult to supplant a near-truth than it is to
gain credence for the whole truth. On the other hand, according to the
view which we maintain here, it is quite true that the seeking of the
kosmic space-center will reveal the circumference; that the search for
the nadir will uncover the zenith; the east effloresces as the west,
and a northward journey will wind up at the south, etc., but in quite a
different manner from that which the mathematician has in mind when he
postulates the curvature of space. Our view involves no space curvature
nor any other spatial distortion. _It deals with space as reality, as
a dynamic process, a flux which, like the sea, is continually casting
itself upon the shores of chaos and falling back upon itself only to
be recast against the rock-bound coast of its chaotic limits._ Now,
that which falls back upon itself and rolls in a recurrent movement
upon its own surface is _life_ which, in its recession is the natural
and kosmic limitations of itself, generates matter in all its varied
expressions. Space, in its extensity, cannot transcend life; for it is
the path which life makes in its _out-coming_, its manifestation. Of
the chaotic fringe which circumscribes the manifested universe it is
absurd to say that it is vital or psychological in any sense of these
terms. For notwithstanding the fact that out of its very substance are
engendered life, intellectuality, spatiality and materiality, it is
nevertheless none of these in its primary essence. It is Chaos-Kosmos;
because from its content the kosmos is evolved, and it still remains;
it is chaos-spatiality; chaos-materiality; chaos-intellectuality;
chaos-geometricity; because these are engendered by the movement of
life in chaos while at the same time there remains a residuum of the
chaogenetic substance which constitutes the limitations of all these
subsequent processes. In this sense, the chaogenetic fringe becomes
the limits of the manifested universe so that it would appear that all
those major processes outlined above are finite manifestations of the
eternal chaos. But none of those possibilities of motion which are
found in these major movements of the kosmos can be logically said to
exist in chaos. It is the embodiment of everything that is the opposite
of those qualities which may be found in them, that is, in materiality,
vitality, spatiality, intellectuality and geometricity.
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