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 inference is, therefore, drawn that the fourth dimensional concept,
and all that it connotes of hyperspace or spaces of _n_-dimensionality
are some of the evidences that this stage of freedom is dawning. And
the mind, joyous at the prospect of unbounded liberty which these
concepts offer, cannot restrain itself but has already begun to revel
in the sunlit glories of a newer day. What the end shall be; what
effect this new liberty will have on man's spiritual and economic life;
and what it may mean in the upward strivings of the Thinker for that
sublime perpetuity which is always the property of immediate knowledge
no one can hope, at the present time, to fathom. It is, however,
believed with KEYSER that "it is by the creation of hyperspaces that
the rational spirit secures release from limitation"; for, as he says,
"in them it lives ever joyously, sustained by an unfailing sense of
infinite freedom."
The elevating influence of abstract thinking, such as excogitation upon
problems dealing with entities inhabiting the domain of _mathesis_ is,
without doubt, incalculable in view of the fact that it is only through
this kind of thought that the spirit is enabled to reach its highest
possibilities. This is undoubtedly the philosophy of those religious
and occult exercises known as "meditations," and this perhaps was
the main idea in the mind of the Hebrew poet when he exclaimed: "Let
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable
in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer." The principal,
if not the only, value possessed by the "summitless hierarchies of
hyperspaces" which the mathematician constructs in the world of pure
thought is the enrichening and ennobling influence which they exert
upon the mind. But admittedly this unbounded domain of mathetic
territory which he explores and which he finds "peopled with ideas,
ensembles, propositions, relations and implications in endless variety
and multiplicity" is quite real to him and subsists under a reign of
law the penalties of which, while not as austere and unreasonable
as some which we find in our tridimensional world, are nevertheless
quite as palpable and as much to be feared. For the orthodoxy of
mathematics is as cold and intolerant as ever the religious fanatic
can be. But the reality and even the actuality which may be imputed to
the domain of mathesis is of an entirely different quality from that
which we experience in our world of triune dimensionality and it is a
regrettable error of judgment to identify them. It ought, therefore,
never be expected, nor is it logically reasonable to assume that the
entities which inhabit the mathetic realm of the analyst should be
submissive to the laws of sensible space; nor that the conditions which
may be found therein can ever be made conformable to the conditions
which exist in perceptual space.
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