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PSYCHISM AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION
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It seems that at present we are passing from three to four-dimensional consciousness. Let us recapitulate.
The sensory surfaces of the body, and hence, our sensations, are. two-dimensional, our perceptions of objects are three-dimensional while our conceptions are four chiebetonal.
As an infinite number of independant straight linesone-dimensional spaces may be drawn on a -surfacetwo-dimensional space and as an infinite number of independant two-dimensional spaces exist in a threedimensional space so, we may believe, an infinite number of independant three-dimensional spaces the spaces known to us being one-may exist in four dimensional space, an idea harmonising perfectly with the Indian idea of innumerable lokas filling the universe. Space, being merely a form of Maya, it is evident that its varying dimensions are only phases of perception, and not realities, and that every added conception is a fresh step in our divine unfolding, a new phase of the absorption of the finite in the INFINITE, of the expansion of the unit to the ALL.
CHARLES JOHNSTON, F. T. S.
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