Four-dimensional VistasA.A. Knopf, 1922 - 155 halaman |
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analogy appear automatic writing beauty become body called ception CLAUDE BRAGDON Colonel de Rochas common sense conceive conception conquest of space conscious experience consciousness curvature dæmonic dimensional direction distance distribution board earth Eastern ence environment ether existence fact flat-man fourth dimension freedom genius heaven HERMES TRISMEGISTUS higher power Higher Space Hypothesis higher-dimensional Hinton human hyper-dimensionality hypnotism ical idea imagine incarnate intersected intuition involved karma knowledge light limitations living mathematical measure memory ment mind motion move movement mysterious mystic nature object orbit parallax passing past births perception person phenomena physical plane pre-vision present pure reason reincarnation relation says sciousness self-element senses fail sequence sional sleep soul sphere supernal world surface symmetry of solids Tertium Organum Theory of Relativity things third dimension thought threadworm three dimensions three-dimensional space tion trance unity universe Upanishads vibrations vision Vistas vortex waking
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Halaman 111 - Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him); and painful is birth again and again. But now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up 72 S^ ForgottenBooks.org this tabernacle again.
Halaman 123 - Unquestionably it is. And if they were able to converse with one another, do you not think that they would be in the habit of giving names to the objects which they saw before them?
Halaman 122 - Also, figure to yourself a number of persons walking behind this wall, and carrying with them statues of men, and images of other animals, wrought in wood, stone, and all kinds of materials, together with various other articles, which overtop the wall; and, as you might expect, let some of the passers-by be talking, and others silent." "You are describing a strange scene, and strange prisoners.
Halaman 15 - ... of which no one has yet seen, a beyond to every country and every refuge of the ideal that man has ever known, a world so overflowing with beauty, strangeness, doubt, terror, and divinity, that both our curiosity and our lust of possession are frantic with eagerness.
Halaman 123 - ... the light of the fire therein to the power of the sun: and if, by the upward ascent and the contemplation of the upper world, you understand the mounting of the soul into the intellectual region, you will hit the tendency of my own surmises, since you desire to be told what they are...
Halaman 121 - Imagine a number of men living in an underground cavernous chamber, with an entrance open to the light, extending along the entire length of the cavern, in which they have been confined, from their childhood, with their legs and necks so shackled that they are obliged to sit still and look straight forwards, because their chains render it impossible for them to turn their heads round: and imagine a bright fire burning some way off, above and behind them, and an elevated roadway passing between the...
Halaman 102 - But let us return to reincarnation and recognize, in passing, that it is very regrettable that the arguments of the theosophists and neospiritualists are not compelling, for there never was a more beautiful, a juster, a purer, a more moral, fruitful and consoling, nor, to a certain point, a more probable creed than theirs.
Halaman 95 - And as a goldsmith, taking a piece of gold, turns it into another, newer and more beautiful shape, so does this Self, after having thrown off this body and dispelled all ignorance, make unto himself another, newer and more beautiful shape...
Halaman 109 - ... but he should again and again enter upon the trance that leads to the High Powers, and each time he rises from it, he should again consider that point of time. Just as a strong man, in cutting down a mighty tree to be used in making the peaked roof of a pagoda, if the edge of his axe become turned in lopping off the branches and twigs, will not despair of cutting down the tree, but will go to a blacksmith's shop, and have his axe made sharp, and return, and go on with the cutting; and if the...
Halaman 24 - ... eye. By repeated groping about and touching, the child knows by experience that his hand retains the same form and extension through all the variations of distance and positions under which it is observed, notwithstanding that the form and extension of the image on the retina constantly change with the different position and distance of the hand in respect to the eye. The problem is thus set to the child's understanding, How to reconcile to its comprehension the...