Tertium Organum



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Tertium-Organum-by-P-D-Ouspensky

by means of sense­
organs,
and 
representing them to itself in their entirety, as they are -
and grasping only 
the separate moments of its contact with them, builds up the illusion of motion, 
imagining that something moves outside it, i.e. that it is the 'things' that move. 
If this is so, then 'motion' may in reality be a 'derivative' and arise in our mind at its 
contact with the things which it cannot wholly grasp. Imagine ourselves approaching 
an unknown town which slowly 
grows up,
i.e. that it did not exist before. Here a belfry 
appeared 
which was not there before; there a river 
vanished,
which has been visible for 
a long time. . . . Our relationship to 
time
is exactly the same; time gradually comes as 
though arising 
out of nothing,
and disappears into nothing. 


Each thing lies for us in time and only 
a section of the thing
lies in space. 
Transferring our consciousness from the section of a thing to those parts of it which lie 
in time, we have the illusion of the motion of the 
thing itself. 
We may put it like this: the sensation of motion is the consciousness of the 
transition from space to time, i.e. from a clear sense of space to an obscured one. And, 
on this basis, we can arrive at a real recognition of the fact that we perceive as 
sensations and project into the external world as phenomena the 
motionless angles and 
curves of the fourth dimension. 
Is it necessary or possible to assume, on this basis, that no motion of any kind exists 
in the world, that the world is static and constant and that it appears to us to be moving 
and evolving simply because we look at it through the narrow slit of our sense­
perception? 
We return once more to the question: What is the world and what is consciousness? 
But now the question of the relation of our consciousness to the world has begun to 
approach a clear formulation. 
If the world is a 
Great Something,
possessing self-consciousness, then we are the 
rays of this consciousness, conscious of ourselves but unconscious of the whole. 
If there is no motion, if it is nothing but illusion, then we must seek further — for the 
source of this illusion. 
Phenomena of life, biological phenomena, are very similar to a passage through our 
space of some four-dimensional 
circles 
of great complexity, each consisting of a mass 
of interwoven lines. 
The 
life
of a man or of another living being is like a complex circle. It always begins 
at one point (birth) and always ends at one point (death). We have every right to 
suppose that it is 
one and the same point.
Circles may be large or small. But all of them 
begin and end in the same way - and they end at the point where they have begun, i.e. 
at the point of 
non-being
from the physico-biological standpoint, or at the point of 
some different being from the psychological standpoint. 
What is a biological phenomenon, the phenomenon of life? Our science has no 
answer to this question. It is an enigma. A living organism, a living cell, living 
protoplasm contains 
something
un-definable, which distinguishes 'living matter' from 
dead matter. We know of this 
something
only through its functions. Of these functions, 
the chief one lacking in a dead organism, a dead cell, dead matter is -
capacity of 
reproduction. 
A living organism multiplies endlessly, absorbing and subjugating dead matter. This 
capacity of continuing itself and subjugating dead 


matter with its mechanical laws is the inexplicable function of 'life', showing that life is 
not merely a complex of mechanical forces as positivist philosophy tries to assert. 
This proposition - that life is not a complex of mechanical forces -is also confirmed 
by the 

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