THE FOURTH DIMENSION 205 



Though the concept of higher time would seem to 

 be implicit in the idea of higher space, quite the con- 

 trary may be true. There are straight lines in a 

 four-dimensional space as well as in a two-dimen- 

 sional, and the straight line of itself has naught to 

 reveal of properties beyond the linear. It is only 

 through the strain and stress resulting from the turn- 

 ing of curves that one comes to a sense of higher 

 space-relations. 



While to a person possessed of a four-dimensional 

 consciousness, recognition of spiritual truth is in- 

 stantaneous, such recognition is limited to the truths 

 that have spatial representation. There are still 

 greater truths awaiting the fifth-dimensional unfold- 

 ment which a four-dimensional consciousness may be 

 quite as slow in sensing as creatures of a lower order 

 the truths beyond their particular realm of under- 

 standing. Greatly then does it behoove us to look to 

 our time curvatures. Every moment is unique in 

 that it may be a transitional point into a larger 

 realm of consciousness. 



" AND THE EMULOUS HEAVEN YEARNED DOWN, MADE 

 EFFORT TO REACH THE EARTH, AS THE EARTH HAD 

 DONE HER BEST ... TO SCALE THE SKY." 



In the Hegelian system the particular interest is 

 shown to be the vehicle of the universal. What more 



