a new model of the universe | The fourth dimension for us lies in the world of celestial bodies and in the world of molecules.
The fifth dimension lies in the moments of life eternally remaining where they are, and in the repetition of life itself, taken as a whole.
Life in itself is time for man. For man there is not and cannot be any other time outside the time of his life. Man is his life. His life is his time.
The fifth dimension lies in the moments of life eternally remaining where they are, and in the repetition of life itself, taken as a whole.
Life in itself is time for man. For man there is not and cannot be any other time outside the time of his life. Man is his life. His life is his time.
The way of measuring time, for all, by means of such phenomena as the apparent or real movement of the sun or the moon, is comprehensible as being convenient for practical purposes. But it is generally forgotten that this is only a formal time accepted by common agreement. Absolute time for man is his life. There can be no other time outside this time.
If I die to-day, to-morrow will not exist for me. But, as has been said before, all theories of the future life, of existence after death, of reincarnation, etc., contain one obvious mistake. They are all based on the usual understanding of time, that is, on the idea that to-morrow will exist after death. In reality it is just in this that life differs from death. Man dies because his time ends. There can be no to-morrow after death.
But all usual conceptions of the " future life " require the existence of " to-morrow ". What future life can there be, if it suddenly appears that there is no future, no " tomorrow", no time, no "after"? Spiritualists, theosophists, theologians and others who know everything about the future life, may find themselves in a very strange situation if the fact is realised that no "after" exists.
What then is possible? And what may the meaning of life as a circle be?
I have pointed out that the very curvature of the line of time implies the presence in it of yet another dimension, namely, the fifth dimension, or eternity. And if in the usual understanding the fourth dimension is extension of time, what can the fifth dimension, or eternity, be?
