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.
Religion
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 intuition, long held in abeyance until the intellect should be
fully crowned and reach the zenith of its powers, is now coming to the
front. It will be many centuries perhaps before it shall have grown to
such proportions as those already attained by the intellect; perhaps
a few thousand years may pass before the intuition shall have evolved
to that point where it may labor as coadjutor to the intellect; but
undoubtedly the time will come when it, too, shall reward the Thinker's
labors with that which shall be more precious than the crown of gold
which the intellect has won. Then, the intellect, grown old and
decrepit with years of reigning shall become dim and crystal-shaped and
finally pass into automatism or reflexive movements where without the
urge of volitional impulses it will perform with exactness, precision
and utter loyalty the tasks which it has learned so well to execute
in the days of its forgotten glory. Mankind will then be free. A new
freedom, wherein the erstwhile lightning flashes of intuition will
become fused into one glorious sheen of all-revealing light, shall come
to men and thus the race resplendent will walk the earth enshrined in
the majesty of divine powers attained as a result of millions of years
of aspiration.
That there are supersensuous realms so far above the range of our
senses as to be entirely beyond their ken needs now no proof or
argument; for the scientist has demonstrated, by the invention of
instruments of extreme delicacy and precision, that such a world does
really exist. Already we know of stars so distant that, though light
traverses in the brief space of an hour six hundred million miles,
they might have ceased to shine before the pyramids were built and
yet be visible to us in the skies. If the human eye were as sensitive
as the spectroscope many thousand tints and shades might be added to
the world of color; if they possessed the magnifying powers of the
microscope we should live in constant terror and awe of the monstrous
entities that teem in the water which we drink and in the air which
we breathe; and if our ears could detect the microphonic vibrations
which register in the delicate apparatus of some microphones the dead,
vacuum-stillness of nature's great silences would appear as a babel of
voices by the seaside. The sense of touch, responding to the same range
of vibrations as the micrometer, would reveal actually the interstices
between particles of the densest elements; and gold, silver, platinum
and mercury would seem but honeycombs of matter. But, to the
forward-looking there is no element of absurdity in the expectation
that all these senses shall, one day, be able to dispense with the
artificial aid of physical apparatus and perform, with even greater
precision and faithfulness, the task which they now perform so crudely
and ineffectively. There are without doubt vibrations of taste and
smell which are so far above the range of these senses that they have
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