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
CHAOGENY (Gr. Chaos, disorder, geny--generating, evolution); the
evolution of chaos into order. A kosmic process involving the
elaboration of the original, formless world-plasm into the first faint
signs of orderliness; the beginnings of the movement of life or the
Creative Logos in preparation of the field of evolution.
CHAOMORPHOGENY (Gr. Chaos, disorder--Morphe, form--geny, becoming,
generating); evolution of the space-form, the universe; the
establishment of the metes and bounds of the universe; also, the
origination and characterization of all forms as to tendence, purpose
and limitations.
CONCEPTUALIZATION--The act of conceptualizing, the formulation of
concepts; the process by which the Thinker arrives at concepts; the
logical procedure by which the consistency of a scheme of thought is
established.
CONSTRUCTION, IDEAL--A purely formal conception; a theory, hypothesis;
a logical determination not necessarily based upon facts, but
possessing virtue because of consistency; a self-consistent scheme of
thought.
COSMOS--Whenever the term "cosmos" appears in the text spelled as here
shown, it refers to phenomena pertaining to the earth or the solar
system; when spelled "kosmos" reference is made to the universe as a
whole.
CRITERION OF TRUTH--Defined in the text as a four-fold standard of
reference, embracing the following elements, namely, the causal,
the sustentative, relational and developmental. Lacking any one of
these, no view of truth is more than fragmentary. Applied to space,
it contemplates an inquiry into the genesis or causal aspect, an
accounting for the duration aspect, a recognition of its relation
to the totality of objects, and lastly, a prophecy of its telestic
or perfective culmination. This test has been applied to the study
of space as sketched in the text and the conclusions reached are an
outcome of the inquiry directed along these lines.
CURVATURE OF SPACE--A doctrine formulated by RIEMANN and which
maintains that space is curved, and consequently, all lines drawn
therein are curved lines. Professor PICKERING aptly describes the
results of movements in a curved space by pointing out that if we go
far enough east we arrive at the west; north, we arrive at the south;
towards the zenith, we arrive at the nadir, and _vice versa_.
DEIFORM--The basic idea indicated is that the universe is the form or
body of the supreme deity, since He is not only immanent in the kosmos,
but sustains it by His life; that in order to create a manifested
universe, it was necessary to limit, or sacrifice, in a measure, His
own illimitability. Viewed in this light, the kosmos assumes an added
significance.
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