In Search of the Miraculous

Eternity has one dimension more than time. Therefore, if time is the fourth dimension,

eternity is the fifth dimension. If the space of time is four-dimensional, then the space of eternity is five-dimensional.

"Further, in order to understand the idea of the fifth and the sixth dimensions, a

certain view of time must be established.

"Every moment of time contains a certain number of possibilities, at times a small

number, at others a great number, but never an infinite number. It is necessary to

realize that there are possibilities and there are impossibilities. I can take from this

table and throw on the floor a piece of paper, a pencil, or an ash-tray, but I cannot take from the table and throw on the floor an orange which is not on the table. This clearly

defines the difference between possibility and impossibility. There are several

combinations of possibilities in relation to things which can be thrown on the floor

from this table. I can throw a pencil, or a piece of paper, or an ash-tray, or else a pencil and a piece of paper, or a pencil and an ash-tray, or a piece of paper and an ash-tray,

or all three together, or nothing at all. There are only these possibilities. If we take as a moment of time the moment when these possibilities exist, then the next moment will

be a moment of the actualization of one of the possibilities. A pencil is thrown on the

floor. This is the actualization of one of the possibilities. Then a new moment comes.

This moment also has a certain number of possibilities in a certain definite sense. And

the moment after it will again be a moment of the actualization of one of the

possibilities. The consecutiveness of these moments of actualization of one possibility

constitutes the line of time. But each moment of time has an infinite existence in

eternity. The possibilities which have been actualized con-

tinue to be endlessly actualized in eternity, while the non-actualized possibilities

continue to remain non-actualized and non-actualizable.

"But all the possibilities that have been created or have originated in the world must be actualized. The actualization of all the possibilities created or originated constitutes the world's being. At the same time there is no place for the actualization of these

possibilities within the limits of eternity. In eternity everything that has been

actualized continues to be actualized and everything non-actualized continues to

remain non-actualized. Eternity, however, is only a plane crossed by the line of time.

At every point of this line there remains a certain number of non-actualized

possibilities. If we imagine the line of the actualization of these possibilities, they will proceed along radii issuing from one point at different angles to the line of time and

the line of eternity. These lines will proceed outside eternity, outside the fivedimensional space, in 'higher eternity' or in six-dimensional space, in the sixth dimension.

"The sixth dimension is the line of the actualization of all possibilities.

"The fifth dimension is the line of the eternal existence or repetition of the

actualized possibilities.

"The fourth dimension is the sequence of the moments of the actualization of one

possibility.

"As I have said, seven dimensions, from zero-dimension to the sixth dimension,

constitute the full period of dimensions. Beyond this period there is either nothing or

the same period may repeat itself on another scale.

"As I have already said, the system of cosmoses, the exposition of which we have

just heard, strikes me above all by the fact that it fully corresponds to the 'period of

dimension' which is the basis of my New Model of the Universe, only this system of cosmoses goes still further and explains many things which were not clear in my

model of the universe.

"Thus, if we take the Microcosmos, that is, the 'atom' or 'microbe,' as G. has defined it, then the Tritocosmos for it will be four-dimensional space, the Mesocosmos will be

five-dimensional space, and the Deuterocosmos six-dimensional space.

"This means that all the possibilities of the 'atom' or 'microbe' are realized within the limits of the solar system.

"If we take man as the Tritocosmos, then, for him, the Mesocosmos will be fourdimensional space, the Deuterocosmos five-dimensional space, and the Macrocosmos six-dimensional space. This means that all the possibilities of the Tritocosmos are

realized in the Macrocosmos.

"Therefore parallel with this, all the possibilities of the Mesocosmos are realized in the Ayocosmos and all the possibilities of the Deuterocosmos, or the sun, are realized

in the Protocosmos or the Absolute.

"As every cosmos has a real physical existence, every cosmos therefore is threedimensional for itself or in itself. In relation to a lower cosmos it is four-dimensional, in relation to a higher cosmos it is a point. To put it differently, it is, itself, three-dimensional, but the fourth dimension lies for it in the cosmos above