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sections inhere within it all possible forms of the 

 film world. It is their revelation only which is suc- 

 cessive, giving rise to the temporal illusion. 



" ' Learn now the precious secret of immortality. 

 The consciousness within the cube and within the square 

 are one consciousness, and that consciousness is divine. 

 It is possible, therefore, to identify your plane con- 

 sciousness with your cube consciousness, and rise, by 

 such means, into the higher-dimensional world. This 

 is achieved by desire, by work, by knowledge, by de- 

 votion but more than all by love, as you shall learn. 



' Because each individual traces in the film world 

 a different figure, determined by the angle at which it 

 meets the film by its attitude toward life you are 

 all under the illusion that each person is unique and 

 singular, that some are better and some worse. But 

 these differences are accidental: they do not exist in 

 the heaven world, where all are God's children, and 

 may become one with the Father. Live uprightly, love 

 and cleave to one another. By so doing you will make 

 vertical and parallel the axes of your higher, or 

 cube bodies; and as the sides of your square bodies 

 cleave together, so will the faces of your cube bodies 

 coalesce. By loving your neighbour, therefore, you are 

 " laying up treasure in heaven " ; for two cubes can 

 unite their faces only when the lines of their square 

 sections are similarly joined. Love effects this junc- 

 tion. 



' When cubes conj oin in mutual love the individual 

 is transcended, the consciousnesses merge into one, and 

 a larger unit is formed. This process may go on re- 

 peating itself, so that if love should become the uni- 

 versal law of life, the aimless drift of souls would cease, 

 for all would enter the Great Peace at last. All hav- 



