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AiPRJMERx OF
HIGHEPo-SPACE
Copyright 1913 by
CLAUDE BRAGDON
TO
FOREWORD
Higher Space.
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solids we know as these are related to their bounded planes, as planes to their bounding lines."
Let us retrace our steps and go over the ground again. A point, moving a given distance in an ura
ing in a direction at right angles to itself a distance equal to its length, traces out a square. This square,
whence it is derived.*
soul?
HYPOTHESIS
ing cubes.
space? I
in space contradictory facts, and if these facts forced us to ascribe to a body two attributes or qualities
space.
amplitude of motion in space of which the vehicle) it capable7~ A~s~"Trfi$ amplitude of motion varies,
DIMENSIONALITY
conceive of each space ns-the cross-section of the next, higher spaceas limiting two contiguous portions of
generate its next higher space by moving in newdirection, that is, a direction not contained within
itself.
cross-sectional slice of
of his disc-world,
verse in which he
finds himself?
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concepts?
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and granting that all life manifesting as motion is, conscious life, as much aware of its environment as
premises.
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part."
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scendental.
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realize it more completely and concretely. (Think of the fourth dimension, not as a new region of space
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into timeT
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beater says, "I can at any rate bear witness that the
doubt.
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PLATES
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PLATE 1
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PLATE 2
FORMINQ AONE-DIMENSIONAL,
,2l
-r
SIDE
PLATE 3
"FTC} 1
COWtf^ONDINQ DE^PMENTT^ANDPIOECriON^
CORRELATION INTO A-
METHOD INDICATES1
INSTEAD OF AS .SQUARED
FOLDED DOWf.aLDEVEb
TE&SEp^CT 5Y MAKINCt,
ACON^TENT HCURE,
6 OF THE 8 BOUNDING
INTO PARAUHQPIPEDtS!.
PUEIO,^ OFFXHI&mNqTFE
PLATE 4
J^ARN THE/ NUMBE?R.<OF THE/ CORNERS1 OFTHET CUBE) BY COUNTlNQ THE? LJNEtf, WHICH ARE' TVP/L,VE/. WP LFARN
INTHF/iS'AME/WAY THATFiqURF;i
AL.FORM COiyE!^PONDlNqTOTHE/
THE! CORRP/^PONDINq CDRNE/R^ OF THE/ SQUARE #3 WF/ FORM PLANPlS1 JOININ0THE/ CORRES-
PLATE 5
DIMENSION
THAT OE A MOI^CUEE.
.ADJACENT PORTIONS1'
PK}3.
HI
US.
PLATE 6
r1lq 1.
tiq z.
* ME?TRICAL, IN ILLATION TO A
IT LS NECESSARY TO
Of COPJ^SPQNDINCj POINTS
3-^PACE.
PLATE 7
SYMMETRY WHICH IS SO
SPACE
the 3-dimensional
Symmetry which is
SO UNIVERSALLY CHAfc
KIND OFAMOTONmDUIDI^SUCHASTHET^HAmr
SHOW: ^DIMENSIONAL
ANOTHER; A? ObJECT
FIQ 3 REPRESENTS
CRYSTALS' CT A TARTRATE
Tiqz
PLATE 8
SUqQESTlONS CP HiqHER-J
NECTION WITH 3-SPACE THE CIRCLE Fest NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL, AND IMPORTANT
PLATE 9
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[Pl^3] AbO MOVIMCf. OPP ON AUNF^ PEftP^NDIClulAR., To OUR-#?AC# WILL, NOT APPROAdH ANY PART OPlTitf (SURr
Pl<3-3
OUT OP'-pbUTL DI^NflONAL, iSllAdE! LX^ THp INDIVIDUAL, CLOTHED IN iT^POXJRrDPdpN^lONAI^ V*HlCLp; TORSAKE THE
PLATE 10
A toD<22NTAdNtf AN INFINITE?
*Pp;pi5?PTlON OT A I^te^lYI^-THtfN
PLATE 11
AML?1!^. _
MAtT,__
PLATE 12
DIMENSIONAL, FORM
PUZZLE PROBLEM
of a vooden stopper-will,
ANSWRJaQJ^ALLY FORTHREe:
FlQ Z.
GULAR-. (FIQ Z)
BY ANALOGY, /THE^THREE-DIMEN^ION-"
otIheETntimE/
fl
PLATE 13
INTERM^ CFlOWE&lSPACE
T1lq. a
> 'v^1
Similarly a hyperSpherE
3-SPACE EXPERIENCE
PLATE 14
^3
THAT DIMENSION
E!xpA^giWECiRCE! QEQAgES.
PLATE 15
TH^^N^CllTlV^ PO^lTTQN^^rHE
INACllRiE1.
^II^.^TmcTURT?iSclD^1TlNq CP4
ONE AM^I^P-VTO.qi^RI&nOE^
J""N"q UNTIV?
PLATE 16
ATbMAab PLANT
oemss in ro^TAiK
OF PiAN^ IN TOWVES.
AND ASYnSMCFJCJjqJ
iNTOETmrr.iN
WDRD AL2.ANDA
3 .SPACE WORLD.
CONtnoUSNH# CONFINED TO A
ALLUtE 1? CDN5CIOUS;Ng^, AS
TMIWWHERE AbOLM^IN-SUCH
APPEAR^
5NCW CRMSYAI,
NArtueriuM ibat
HUMAN HAND
PLATE 17
I^CMENAlNTE^^C^TriLt HOHI^^mW
PLATE 18
A 2-SPACE *MAN*INHAMTINa A
BY THE INTERNAL. STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN fcODY ifVISIBLE WITHIN rrSCASlNQ.AlSOTH; AUIl^.a^HlGHEIUDI^NS'lQNAL LODY
PLATE 1
UNITS MUST BE THUS CE14, 17, OR-lOOl APPI^tfMIL<E& OE. MEjN. THE AUTHOILAddOEDIN^lnY INVOKED THE? MATH-
VERIPYlNCj THE? EE?IhAT10N^ NOTED HE EE? ABLE1 TD PAP^ClIFATEj, WTHOUT BgEP KNOVlE?DCIE| LAEOL,
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cll$ op top row add 34. v1.th tvo op1 bottom row'.
PLATE 22
BEjARIN^asrAUn <S
ADD 130, BUT THE! 4DIAQONAL,$ OF" THE 0UPJJ51 DO ADD 130
PLATE 23
FIX THE! E3$A MORE! CONCRETELY con# ex?RjThe; yellow-inCt ^tatfJme1nt^ band on the! povw of1the? numketj^
7*4- 1
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NUMBERS1 3IVE?
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7234J6I
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10
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47
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27
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45"
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42
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30
cm 1].
^OJ-W^^(3|5Q.UAjsJ|S)
TO EACH DIMEN-
jIachof1the^
cue diagonal^
ADDS 42.
E&CHOF'THEje
DIAGONAL^ CfTl
3 magic ^quake^
AMONG THEjM TtXJR;DIME?NlONAL, MACflC! PATH,? AS1 REAL, AND DElMQHSTRABL^ AS1 THQSi? IN 2-PACE?.
INSISTENTLY
PLATE 25
in the1 num-
TO BE] ElNCLP^D IN
PORTEND ON A WIRE?
FPvAMEjWORK VHK1H
(DOW WARDS);
FROM us);
PLATE 26
tiQBl 4-^PACE:.TOli.
MACjlCi CXJEEtf DO KT
THE? TElS1^RACT.
TJRACT DIAGONALS
ESIATIQN^ WHICH
AEE^THElCAU^
ioundeTj he?rX
:>
PLATE 27
NOW WE; WILL TAKE OUR, LONG, LEAP OUT INTO THE
DARK.
THEN EVELY RED (MARKED) WIRE (1), GREEN WIRE! (z\ BLUE
THE CASE.
PLATE 28
DIOULAR^, THOUGH THEY APPEAR, TO &ANT, WHILE A b APPEAR^ PERPENDICULAR,! AD, ETC PiJRTHFX,, OB-
PLATE 29
A'KETOTENTf y
THEJERItfCF"
UNCHANGINQ CROttf-
CUKE MEETINGTHE
^5feb\ IV 5Y ONE Of
Al^IQJJlBlj1 PROJECT
DIAGRAM. .SYMMETRICAL
SOUDS OE A 3-DIMENlTION-
PLATE 30
cube."
Mysterium Cosmographicum.
Kepler.
v.
creative plane."
H. P. Blavatsky.
"And the city [the New Jerusalem] lieth four square, and
the length is as large as the breadth. The length and the breadth
initiated.
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[Illustration 1].
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@THE ARCHETVPAL
THE PHENOMENAL
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sonalities. /
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FILM PHENOMENA
three long sides and three short ones. The long sides
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THE M3VIim,CC^INAnA^|
'a
that a parallelogram
ring, as before, in an
as they began, in a
pendicularly to the
plate 30].
i-
/.
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planeits world.
APlT^KEATXAejOUS
ANQEft1
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j PLANEWISDOM
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change of consciousness. He
'PHIIQSOPHICCALK
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planelove: planebeauty
and theirs.
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flQUARE'WIHTTE WORLD
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<3> PLANHO/E
PIANFWSDOM.
and PUNEimnV
ODNJOINEDINA
MUTUAL AFPEC
TION 88988881
know, and perceiving that the time has come for the
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[Illustration 7].
rv=^
METER-CUTATXAND
A1DWWPATIAL.OR.
UNEAR.W5i2LD
THEOJ5E. OJTAS
ID ITS KXJNDING
SURFACES AIONQ
ADD^^-tfATlALa
PLANS WORID
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nativity.
accomplished, he "as-
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higher still. [Illustration 7). "Each of you has this heavenly, or cube body,1
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ality. For the cube they are not, since it did not
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the City of the Lord. [Illustration 8). _^*Tf~Ts thus that consciousness becomes self-con-;
unto you."
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Secret Doctrine: _^
into the sea came into existence as it left the air, and
be' into the 'has been,' out of the Future into the
DEC 7 - 1915