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advance into the realm of " higher matter," the 

 transcendental suffers no diminution in consequence, 

 for that which is infinite cannot be lessened by finite 

 subtractions. It is a mathematical error to assume 

 that one's intuitive realm is the richer, the less one's 

 knowledge. 



We have to apprehend the truth before we can give 

 it form. And for the acquiring of immediate knowl- 

 edge time is needed. In that sense, time, as we now 

 know it, is the fourth dimension in the process of 

 evolving for the collective consciousness. It does not 

 follow, though, that our existence in a fourth dimen- 

 sion will be freer from the tedium of time than is this 

 present existence. When the " order changeth " 

 there will be a new time the fifth dimension as it in 

 turn presents itself to consciousness. 



For a normal development one in which the 

 process of intellection has kept pace with the intui- 

 tion time is one-dimensional to the mind that is 

 experiencing it. Those who would delve into the su- 

 per-rational have to remember that there must be 

 due organisation of empirical dr.ta for the advance to 

 be a permanent one. 1 



i Nothing is together in any texture or effect which was not 

 successively introduced; and everything is therein, according 

 as order itself introduces it: wherefore simultaneous order 

 derives its birth, nature and perfection from successive orders, 

 and the former is only rendered perspicuous and plain by the 

 latter. 



SWEDENBORG. 



