166 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



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" Why? " * I would answer that the process of cre- 

 ative involution makes imperative the transfixion by^ 

 the intellect of these so-called spiritual perceptions. 

 Although the intuition transcends the intelligence in 

 its grasp of beauty and truth, we may attain to the 

 higher insight it has to offer only if the things of the 

 spirit become known to the intellect a point in 

 Bergson's philosophy which the majority of his read- 

 ers overlook. " We have," he says, " to engender 

 the categories of our thought ; it is not enough that 

 we determine what these are." Bergson is pre- 

 eminently the prophet of the higher-space concept. 

 We had done better to hold to Kant, for now we are 

 not only confronted with the fourth dimension as a 

 thought-form, but with the duty as well of further- 

 ing its creation. And in that light we have to re- 

 gard what of worth and meaning our spiritual per- 

 ceptions have for us. 



The space wherein we live and move and have our 

 being, ostensibly, is just so much of reality as our 

 thought is able to compass. In fine, it is our 

 thought which sets boundaries and marks out the 

 ways by which we come and go. What wonder then 

 that we regard space as a projection of the thinking 

 principle ! And so it is this finite space to which 



i " Length, Breadth and Thickness, take up the whole of 

 space. Nor can Fansie imagine how there should be a Fourth 

 Local Dimension beyond these Three." 



JOHN WALLIS (1616-1703). 



