168 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



obtained our spiritual balance we shall doubtless find 

 that our space-world has taken to itself another di- 

 rection, inconceivable as that now seems. 



Space is more than room wherein to move about ; it 

 is, first of all, the room in which we think, and upon 

 the way we do so depends the number of its dimen- 

 sions. If the attention has become " riveted to the 

 object of its practical interest " to the extent that 

 this is the only good the creature knows, then is its 

 thought-form one-dimensional even though its bodily 

 movements are three-spaced. The great Peacock 

 Moth wings a sure course mate-ward to the mystifica- 

 tion of the scientist; the dog finds the direct way 

 home his master cannot tell how ; Rockefeller 

 knows his goal and attains it, regardless of other 

 moral worths. For these the way is certain. They 

 can suffer no deflection since there are no relative val- 

 ues, no possible choices. Their purpose makes the 

 road one-dimensional. 



While a man's space-world is limited by his 

 thought, it is, on the other hand, as boundless as his 

 thought. That the world evolves with our conscious- 

 ness, is at once the philosophy of " Creative Evolu- 

 tion " and of the higher-space theory, which is Cre- 

 ative Involution. Our present spatial milieu has set- 

 tled down to a seemingly three-dimensional finality 

 because our thought-form has become so habitual as 

 to give rise to certain geometric axioms. All we 

 need in order to come to a fourth-dimensional con- 



