We see how entirely conditional it is.
We see that by time are designated the characteristics of a space
higher than the
given one, i.e. the characteristics of representations of a consciousness higher than the
given one.
For a one-dimensional being all the characteristics of the two-dimensional; three
dimensional, four-dimensional and still higher space lie in time - all this is
time.
For a
two-dimensional being time includes characteristics of three-dimensional, four
dimensional and still higher space. For a man, i.e. a three-dimensional being, time
includes characteristics of four-dimensional and higher space.
Thus, as consciousness and forms of perception
rise and expand, the characteristics
of space increase and those of time decrease.
In other words, the growth of space-sense proceeds at the expense of time-sense. Or
it can be said that time-sense is an imperfect space-sense (i.e. faculty of imperfect
representation) and that, as it becomes more perfect, it passes into space-sense, i.e. into
the faculty of representing in forms.
If, on the basis of all the principles we have elucidated, we try to form an idea of the
universe,
however abstract, it will quite naturally be a universe totally different from
the one we are accustomed to represent to ourselves. In the first place, it will not
depend on time at all.
Everything
in it will exist
always.
It will be the universe of the
ETERNAL NOW
of Indian philosophy - a universe in which there will be no
before
and
no
after,
but
only the present,
known
or
unknown.
Hinton feels that with the
expansion of space-sense
our view of the world should
undergo a complete change, and he speaks
of this in his book A
New Era of Thought:
The conception which we shall form of the universe will undoubtedly be as different
from our present one, as the Copernican view differs from the more pleasant view of
a wide immovable earth beneath a vast vault. Indeed, any conception of our place in
the universe will be more agreeable than the thought
of being on a spinning ball,
kicked into space without any means of communication with any other inhabitants of
the universe.*
What then is the world of many dimensions, what are many-dimensional bodies, whose
lines and sides are perceived by us as
motion?
A very great power of imagination is needed to escape, even for a
brief moment,
from the limits of
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