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away with self-elements (right and left; up and 

 down) ; he had, as he phrases it, to acquire an altru- 

 istic knowledge 3 of a block of cubes. s^And in order 

 to take the view of a higher being, in general one has 

 to live openly, to understand one's fellows as they 

 are in their true selves, and not in their outward 

 forms. Indeed, it may well be that those who feel 

 within them the immanence of a higher life are best 

 fitted to visualise for us the fourth-dimensional 

 reaches that lie all about our mundaneness. 



How is it that four-dimensional processes and mo- 

 tions can be limited to the three-dimensional repre- 

 sentations that we observe? In other words, what is 

 the reality of which the present sense experience is 

 but the shadow ? 4 These are the questions we have 

 to ask ourselves, and to solve if we would attain to the 

 fourth dimension of being, for greatly do we de- 

 lude ourselves if we think it is to come " out of the 

 blue." To illustrate the sort of one-to-one corre- 

 spondence that may be set up between the new world 

 and this, our old: a fourth-dimensional movement 

 may be, as Mr. Bragdon suggests, the proximate 

 cause of the phenomenon of growth. Likewise the 

 density of a body, according to Dr. Blake, may be 

 taken as our perception of its thickness in hyper- 

 space. In fine, to acquire the sense of another di- 



*A New Era of Thought, p. 93. 



4 For if the intuition were a concept gained a posteriori . . . 

 we should not be able to say any more than that, so far as 



