fundamentals of the understanding of higher-dimensional space or the world of the
miraculous.
In order to come to a clear understanding of the relations of the many-dimensional
world, we must get rid of all the 'idols' of
our world
(to use Bacon's expression); in
other words we must get rid of all the obstacles to a
right
perception and thinking. And
above all we must have an inner kinship with the world of the miraculous.
In order to come to the understanding of the three-dimensional world, a two
dimensional being must already
be three-dimensional,
and then get free of its 'idols',
i.e. of its accepted ways of
feeling and thinking, which have become axiomatic and are
creating for it the illusion of two-dimensionality.
What exactly must a two-dimensional being get rid of?
First of all - and this is most important - it must get rid of the conviction that
what it
sees and senses actually exists; and as a result it must become aware of the
incorrectness of its representation of the world, and then of the idea that the real, new
world must exist in some quite different forms, new, incomparable, incommensurable
with the old. Further, the two-dimensional being must get rid of the assurance that its
divisions
are correct. It must understand that things which appear to
it totally different
and separated one from another, may be a part of some
whole
incomprehensible to it,
or that they may have much in common, although this may not be noticed; whereas
things which seem one and indivisible, are actually infinitely complex and manifold.
The mental growth of the two-dimensional being must proceed
along the line of the
recognition of those common properties of objects,
unknown to it before,
which result
from their similar origin or similar functions, incomprehensible on a plane.
Once the two-dimensional being has recognized the possible existence of
common
properties, formerly unknown to it, in objects which appear different, it has already
come near to our understanding of the world. It has come near to our logic, has
begun
to understand the use of a
collective noun,
i.e. a word which is not a proper name but a
common noun; in other words, a word expressing a concept.
The 'idols' of the two-dimensional being which obstruct the development of its
consciousness are
proper names
which itself it gives to all surrounding objects. For it
every object
has its own proper name, corresponding to its own representation of that
object; it has no common nouns corresponding to concepts. It is only by getting rid of
these 'idols' and understanding that nouns may be both proper and common that it will
be able to advance further, to develop
mentally, to
approach the human understanding of the world. Otherwise, the simplest sentence, such
as:
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