CHAPTER X 



THE FOURTH DIMENSION IN THE PROCESS OF 

 EVOLVING FOR THE COLLECTIVE MIND 



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". . . WHEN I SAY * YOU ' 'TIS THE COMMON SOUL, 

 THE COLLECTIVE, I MEAN : THE RACE OF MAN THAT 

 RECEIVES LIFE IN PARTS TO LIVE IN A WHOLE, AND 

 GROW HERE ACCORDING TO GOD 5 S CLEAR PLAN." 



" God unable to make the world eternal gave it 

 Time, ' a moving image of eternity.' ' Hence con- 

 sciousness is ever the process of becoming that it was 

 for Heraclitus. And for that reason we are not able 

 to give to matter the properties of pure space. Some 

 portion of it must always transcend the spatial 

 frame, however great the dimensionality of being to 

 which we may attain. 



That part of the infinite realm of matter which the 

 intellect has grasped we designate reality; the vast 

 unknown beyond our mental ken we think of as 

 spiritual. The distinction between the physical and 

 the metaphysical is purely one of our understanding. 



While growth in consciousness implies a continuous 



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