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opposites. It is not immobility, it is movement. It is 

 not fixity, but development. The philosophic concept 

 is a concrete universal, and therefore a thinking of 

 reality as at once united and divided. Only thus does 

 philosophic truth correspond to poetic truth, and the 

 pulse of thought beat with the pulse of things." 



BENEDETTO CROCK : The Philosophy 

 of Hegel, pp. 10-20. 



" This is The Sermon on the Plane, preached to the 

 planemen by Him who was ' crucified.' 



' Heaven is all about you : a city lying four-square, 

 clear as glass and filled with light. Here your real, 

 your immortal selves, have their true home. This world 

 of yours which seems so substantial is but a mutable 

 and many-coloured film staining the bright radiance 

 of this crystal heaven. Your lives are but tracings 

 made by your immortal selves in this film world. . . . 



" ' Each of you has this heavenly, or cube body, which 

 you must think of as related to your physical or square 

 body, as that is related to one of its bounding lines. 

 The cube is the true individual, of which the square is 

 but a single illusory and inadequate image. The indi- 

 vidual expresses itself in countless of these personalities, 

 each one a tracing of itself: the sum total of all possible 

 tracings is the cube itself. Birth and death are illu- 

 sions of the personality. For the cube they are not, 

 since it did not begin its existence with its first contact 

 with the film which is your world, nor will that existence 

 cease when it passes beyond that world; neither does 

 the changing cross-section which it traces in thus pass- 

 ing comprise or comprehend its life. Time and change 

 are illusions of the personality. The cube knows 

 neither increment nor diminution. All conscious cross- 



