Realism Is Determined by Awareness--Succession of Degrees of Realism--Sufficiency of Tridimensionality--The Insufficiency of Self-consistency as a Norm of Truth--General Forward Movement in the Evolution of Consciousness Implied in the Hyperspace Concept--The Hypothetical Nature of Our Knowledge--Hyperspace the Symbol of a More Extensive Realm of Awareness--Variations in the Methods of Interpreting Intellectual Notions--The Tuitional and the Intuitional Faculties--The Illusionary Character of the Phenomenal--Consciousness and the Degrees of Realism 161 CHAPTER VII THE GENESIS AND NATURE OF SPACE Symbology of Mathematical Knowledge--Manifestation and Non-manifestation Defined--The Pyknon and Pyknosis--The Kosmic Engenderment of Space--On the Consubstantiality of Spatiality, Intellectuality, Materiality, Vitality and Kosmic Geometrism--Chaos-Theos-Kosmos--Chaogeny and Chaomorphogeny--N. Malebranche on God and the World--The Space-Mind--Space and Mind Are One--The Kosmic Pentoglyph 203 CHAPTER VIII THE MYSTERY OF SPACE The Thinker and the Ego--Increscent Automatism of the Intellect--The Egopsyche and the Omnipsyche--Kosmic Order or Geometrism--Life as Engendering Element--The Mystery of Space Stated--Kathekos and Kathekotic Consciousness--Function of the Ideal--The Path of Search for an Understanding of the Nature and Extent of Space Must Proceed in an Inverse Direction 242 CHAPTER IX METAGEOMETRICAL NEAR-TRUTHS Realism Is Psychological and Vital--The Impermanence of Facts--On the Tendency of the Intellect to Fragmentate--The Intellect and Logic--The Passage of Space--Kosmometer and Zoometer, Instruments for the Measurement of the Passage of Space and the Flow of Life--The Disposal of Life and the Power to Create--Space, a Dynamic, Creative Process--Numbers and Kosmogony--Kosmic Significance of the Circle and the Pi-proportion--Mechanical Tendence of the Intellect and Its Inaptitude for the Understanding of Life--The Criterion of Truth 284 CHAPTER X MEDIA OF NEW PERCEPTIVE FACULTIES The Spiritualization of Matter Is the End of Evolution--Sequence and Design in the Evolution of Human Faculties--The Upspringing Intuition--Evidences of Supernormal Powers of Perception and the Possibility of Attainment--The Influence and Place of the Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland in the Evolution of Additional Faculties--The Skeptical Attitude of Empirical Science and the Need for a More Liberal Posture--The General Results of Pituitarial Awakening Upon Man and the Theory of Knowledge 327 BIBLIOGRAPHY 359 INDEX 367 THE MYSTERY OF SPACE INTRODUCTION