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absolutely necessary to us for perception. Without the former we 

 could have no cognizance of warmth, pitch in sound, or colour in 

 light, and without the latter the time beats being without amplitude, 

 would have no power to affect our senses. When combined they 

 give us the impression of motion, without which we should have no 

 consciousness of living. 



For convenience we arbitrarily divide Time into two parts, 

 namely, past and future eternities, and space into the infinitely 

 small and the infinitely great. In the case of Space, we treat its 

 two divisions on equal terms, but in the case of its twin sister Time 

 we have unaccountably got to look upon the future as non-existent 

 until we arrive at, and are able to perceive with our senses, what is 

 happening there. This curious state of things is probably only 

 accidental to the present stage of development of the human mind, 

 and may at any time be rectified ; it would anyhow seen to be as 

 reasonable to maintain in the case of Space that when travelling 

 towards a foreign town, that town does not really exist until we 

 arrive there. Time and Space may in a certain sense be looked 

 upon as two great permanent existences, but in reality the former is 

 all contained in the now, and the latter in the here. It is only our 

 finite mode of perception under present conditions which prevents 

 us seeing each as a whole, as stated in Conclusion No. 2. 



No. 4. When we increase the rate of perception until it is equal 

 to what may be called the Flow of Time, we enter into the now, 

 the permanent existing present, where motion ceases to exist ; the 

 same condition is attained by increasing the rate of transmission 

 in Space until it is equal to the rate of transmission of those 

 frequencies which are the very base of all perception, or by increasing 

 the extension in Space of the perceptive sense until it becomes 

 omnipresent. In both cases the now and here are reached. 



No. 5. If our senses were extended so as to be capable of 

 perceiving the whole truth, we should realise that the only reality is 

 the spiritual, the here and the now. 



The difficulty of forming a true conception of the Eeality is 

 increased by our not generally recognising the following : — 



First. — That the invisible is the real, the visible is only its shadow. 

 Secondly. — God cannot be said to be anywhere, but that 



everywhere God is. 

 Thirdly. — That our senses only perceive the surface of things. 



