,the ,fourth-,dimensional ,reaches of the ,exposition ,san ,francisco1 #aiae ,by ,cora ,lenore ,williams1 ,m4 ,s4 ,author of ,as ,if and ,essays on ,involution ,paul ,elder and ,company ,publisher - ,san ,francisco ,copyright1 #aiae ,by ,paul ,elder and ,company ,san ,francisco ,to ,my ,father and ,mother ,contents ,lines on ,fourth-,dimensional ,insight by ,ormeida ,curtis ,harrison4 7,tissue ,facing ,frontispiece47 ,a ,fourteenth ,century ,legend ,essay on the ,fourth-,dimensional ,reaches of the ,exposition4 ,by ,cora ,lenore ,williams3 ,general ,status of the ,fourth-,dimensional ,theory ,fourth-,dimensional ,aspects of the ,panama-,pacific ,international ,exposition ,bibliography3 ,books and ,poems having ,fourth-,dimensional ,insight ,illustrations ,an ,unborn ,space4 ,the ,court of ,four ,seasons4 ,from an etching by ,gertrude ,partington 7,frontispiece7 ,a ,structure ,brave4 ,palace of ,fine ,arts4 ,from an etching by ,gertrude ,partington ,a ,building ,inside ,out4 ,the ,court of ,ages4 ,from an etching by ,gertrude ,partington ,a ,four-,dimensional ,cover ,design4 ,by ,julia ,manchester ,mackie4 7,cover47 ,time is1 and all the detail of the world confounds ,the plastic mind4 ,with multitude of shapes and sounds ,do the swift elements of thought contend ,to form a whole which life may comprehend4 ,only to those of high intent ,is life revealed1 and quick dreams sent - ,half glimpsed truths omnipotent4 ,out of the silence of an unborn space ,a spirit moves1 and thought comes face to face ,with the immutable1 and time is past1 ,and the spent soul1 done1 meets truth at last4 ,chance1 fate1 occasion1 circumstance1 ,in interfused radiance ,are lost4 ,past1 present1 future1 all combined ,in one sure instantaneous grasp of mind1 ,and all infinity unrolls at our command1 ,and beast and man and ,god unite1 as worlds expand4 - ,ormeida ,curtis ,harrison4 ,a ,fourteenth ,century ,legend ,friar ,bacon1 reading one day of the many conquests of ,england1 bethought himself how he might keep it hereafter from the like conquests and so make himself famous to all posterity4 ,this 7after great study7 he found could be no way so well done as one2 which was to make a head of brass1 and if he could make this head to speak 7and hear it when it spoke7 then might he be able to wall all ,england about with brass4 ,to this purpose he got one ,friar ,bungey to assist him1 who was a great scholar and magician 7but not to be compared to ,friar ,bacon72 these two with great study and pains so formed a head of brass that in the inward parts thereof there was all things like as in a natural man's head4 ,this being done they were as far from perfection of the work as they were before1 for they knew not how to give those parts that they had made motion1 without which it was impossible that it should speak4 ,many books they read1 but yet could not find out any hope of what they sought1 that at the last they concluded to raise a spirit and to know of him that which they could not attain by their own studies4 ,the spirit straight obeyed1 and appeared unto them1 asking what they would4 ,he told them that with a continual fume of the six hottest simples it should have motion1 and in one month space speak3 the time of the month3 or the day he knew not4 ,also he told them that if they heard it not before it had done speaking1 all their labor should be lost4 ,then went these two learned ,friars home again and prepared the simples ready and made the fume1 and with continual watching attended when this ,brazen ,head should speak4 ,thus watched they for three weeks without any rest1 so that they were so weary and sleepy that they could not any longer refrain from rest4 ,then called ,friar ,bacon his man ,miles1 and told him that it was not unknown to him what pains ,friar ,bungey and himself had taken for three weeks space only to make and to hear the ,brazen ,head speak1 which if they did not1 then had they lost all their labor1 and all ,england had a great loss thereby4 ,therefore he entreated ,miles that he would watch whilst that they slept and call them if the head spake4 ',fear not 7good master71 ,i will harken and attend1 upon the head and if it do chance to speak1 ,i will call you2 therefore1 ,i pray take you both your rest and let me alone for watching this head4' 99 99 99 99 ,at last1 after some noise1 the ,head spake these two words3 ',time is4' ,miles1 hearing it to speak no more1 thought his master would be angry if he waked him for that1 and therefore he let them both sleep and began to mock the ,head in this manner3 ',thou ,brazen-faced ,head1 hath my master took all this pains about thee and now dost thou requite him with two words1 ,time is8' 99 99 99 99 ,after half an hour had past1 the ,head did speak again two words which were these3 ',time was4' ,miles respected these words as little as he did the former and would not wake his master1 but still scoffed at the ,brazen ,head1 that it had learned no better words1 and have had such a tutor as his master2 99 99 99 99 ',time was6 ,i knew that1 ,brazen-face1 without your telling4 ,i knew ,time was and ,i know what things there was when ,time was1 and if you speak no wiser1 no master shall be waked for me4' 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,brazen ,head spake again these words3 ',time is past'2 and therewith fell down and presently followed a terrible noise1 with strange flashes of fire1 so that ,miles was half dead with fear4 ,at this noise the two ,friars waked and wondered to see the whole room so full of smoke1 but that being vanished1 they might perceive the ,brazen ,head broken and lying on the ground4 ,at this sight they grieved1 and called ,miles to know how this came4 ,miles1 half dead with fear1 said that it fell down of itself and that with the noise and fire that followed he was almost frightened out of his wits4 ,friar ,bacon asked him if it did not speak4 ',yes1' quoth ,miles1 'it spake1 but to no purpose4' ,general ,status of the ,fourth-,dimensional ,theory ,the human mind has so long followed its early cow-paths through the wilderness of sense that great hardihood is required even to suggest that there may be other and better ways of traversing the empirical common4 ,so it is that the fear of being proclaimed a ,brazenhead has restrained me until this eleventh hour from telling of my discoveries concerning the fourth-dimensional reaches of our ,exposition4 ,that ,i have the courage now is due to my desire to help in its preservation2 not to the end of enclosing it in a brass wall1 but to lift it out of the realm of things temporal and give it permanent meaning for our thought and aspiration4 ,would we save our ,exposition from the ravages of ,time we have to exorcise that monster with the enigmatical utterances of the aforesaid ,brazen ,head4 ,the philosophers are telling us that ,time is the fourth dimension in the process of evolving for our consciousness4 ,i take it that there are three stages in this evolution2 the first1 that of immediate experience1 is subsumed by the phrase ',time is'2 the second is a passing from the concrete to the abstract through the fact that ',time was'2 and the glory of the last is visioned only when we can say ',time is past4' ,while many books have been written descriptive of the ,exposition1 none has succeeded in accounting completely for the joy we have in yonder miracle of beauty4 ,and this through no fault of the writers4 ,when all has been said concerning plan and execution there is still a subtle something not spatialized for consciousness4 ,length1 breadth1 and height do not suffice to set forth the ways of our delight in it4 ,what of this perceptual residue8 ,obviously to give it extension we shall have to ascribe to reality other dimensions than those of our present sense realm4 ,some disciple of ,bergson interrupts3 ',ah1 this whereof you speak is a spiritual thing and as such is given by the intuition4 ,why1 then1 do you seek to spatialize it8' ,and the layman out of his mental repugnance to things mathematical echoes1 ',why8' ,we have to answer that the process of creative evolution makes imperative the transfixion by the intellect of these so-called spiritual perceptions4 ,although the intuition transcends the intelligence in its grasp of beauty and truth1 we may attain to the higher insight it has to offer only if the things of the spirit become known to the intellect - a point in ,bergson's philosophy which the majority of his readers overlook4 ',we have1' he says1 'to engender the categories of our thought2 it is not enough that we determine what these are4' ,bergson is preeminently the prophet of the higher space concept4 ,we had done better to have held to ,kant1 for now we are not only confronted with the fourth dimension as a thought-form1 but with the duty as well of furthering its creation4 ,and in that light we have to regard what of worth and meaning the ,exposition has for us4 ,although the scientist has found it useful on occasion to postulate the fourth dimension1 he has not thought necessary as yet to put it in the category of reality2 much less has the layman4 ,consequently the mathematician holds the sole title to its knowledge unless we recognize the claims of the medium to a fourth-dimensional insight4 ,there is much1 however1 today which points to our coming to such perception as the natural result of our evolution and quite apart from geometrical abstractions or occultism4 ,it is as though some great tidal wave had swept over space and we have1 quite unbeknown to ourselves1 been lifted by it to new heights4 ,and when we have once obtained our spiritual balance we shall doubtless find that our space world has taken to itself another direction1 inconceivable as that now seems4 ,space is more than room wherein to move about2 it is1 first of all1 the room in which we think1 and upon how we do so depends the number of its dimensions4 ,if the attention has become 'riveted to the object of its practical interest' to the extent that this is the only good the creature knows1 then is its thought-form one-dimensional even though its bodily movements are three-spaced4 ,the great ,peacock ,moth wings a sure course mateward to the mystification of the scientist2 the dog finds the direct road home - his master cannot tell how2 ,mary ,antin climbs to an education over difficulties apparently insurmountable2 ,rockefeller knows his goal and attains it1 regardless of other moral worths4 ,for these the way is certain4 ,they can suffer no deflection since there are no relative values1 no possible choices4 ,their purpose makes the road one-dimensional4 ,that the majority of persons are still feeling their way over the surface of things is attested by the general mental ineptitude for the study of solid geometry4 ,depth and height play little part in our physical perception4 ,for most of us the third dimension is practically unknown beyond the reach of a few feet4 ,a ,beachey soaring aloft - why all the bravado of curve and loop8 ,sooner or later he will fall to his death4 ,ay1 verily6 but his is a joyous martyrdom making for the evolution of consciousness4 ,not always shall we crawl like flies the surface of our globe6 ,while a man's space-world is limited by his thought1 it is1 on the other hand1 as boundless as his thought4 ,that the world evolves with our consciousness1 is at once the philosophy of ',creative ,evolution' and of the higher space theory4 ,our present spatial milieu has settled down to a seemingly three dimensional finality because our thought-form has become so habitual as to give rise to certain geometric axioms4 ,all we need in order to come to a fourth-dimensional consciousness1 said ,henri ,poincare1 'the greatest of moderns1' is a new table of distribution2 that is1 a breaking up of old associations of ideas and the forming of new relations - a simple matter were it not for our mental inertia4 ,lester ,ward speculates that life remained aquatic for the vast periods that paleontology would indicate2 ,cambrian1 ,silurian1 ,devonian1 ,carboniferous - a duration greater than all subsequent time - for the reason that the creature had not progressed beyond the stage when it could move otherwise than in a straight line when actuated by desire for food or mate4 ,life was not able to maintain itself on land until it had overcome this one-dimensional limitation4 ,a venturesome ,pterodactyl was he who first essayed to make his way among the many obstructions to be found ashore6 ,by what intuition was he impelled8 ,it is a matter of common observation that the growth of the higher perceptive faculty is strangely concomitant with adversity4 ,the intuitive person is a person who has suffered4 ,when conditions press sufficiently hard1 a new table of distribution may be the only means for survival4 ,thus we proceed to make a virtue of necessity and so come to the recognition of other values which we denominate spiritual because we have not as yet spatialized them4 ,the caterpillar has to mount the twig to find the tender green that is his food1 but1 he solaces himself for the journey by thinking himself a creature of the light4 ,mr4 ,carpenter1 in an interesting study of what he calls ,intermediate ,types1 shows that the seers and spiritually-minded come to be such because they found themselves differing in some wise from their fellows1 and dwelling on that difference had their minds turned inward4 ,progress in thought and imagination naturally followed1 with the result that these were lifted above the majority and came thereby to larger vision4 ,failure may well be the measure of extension in a new dimension4 ,the significance of the much fumbling and groping of earth's creatures is the desire for a larger outlook4 ,man has to feel his way out of a three-fold world even as the worm out of his hole4 ,that we are hearing much of the principle of relativity is perhaps the best indication we have that the collective human consciousness is about to enter a higher dimension4 ,so long as man knew only an absolute good was his world a definitely determined world4 ,now that the question of relative values obtrudes itself on every side the range of consciousness promises to be infinite4 ,man's interest having in these latter days become largely centered on value-judgments and estimates of worth1 an exposition affords perhaps the most general application of the principle of relativity1 bringing it home to the collective mind in an intimately human way as nothing else could3 - ,with nation vying with nation and individual with individual in all of the arts and crafts of human industry1 absolute standards must needs vanish1 and with their going we may be able to set up such a distribution of values as will give new direction to our efforts4 ,however that may be1 the industrial competition to which1 in the last analysis1 the ,exposition owes its inception1 is pushing many aside from the beaten highways into hitherto unexplored regions of thought and endeavor1 and who is to say that we may not in consequence find a direction quite at right angles to all of our wonted ways of thinking4 ,certainly there could be no more fitting occasion for the launching of a new thought-form than a great international exposition4 ,the ,fourth-,dimensional ,aspects of the ,panama-,pacific ,international ,exposition ,and ,i know not if1 save in this1 such gift be allowed to man1 ,that out of three sounds he frame1 not a fourth sound1 but a star4 ,consider it well3 each tone of our scale in itself is naught3 ,it is everywhere in the world - loud1 soft1 and all is said3 ,give it to me to use6 ,i mix it with two in my thought3 ,and there6 ,ye have heard and seen3 consider and bow the head6 - ,browning4 ,the ,panama-,pacific ,international ,exposition is best seen in its fourth-dimensional aspect when approached through the ,gateway of ,memory4 ,this is what one might expect1 for that entrance alone has the requisite geometrical structure4 ,you will recall having heard1 ,i am sure1 how in the fourth dimension a person may go in and out of a locked room at his pleasure with bolts and bars untouched4 ,broad and open as is this ,gate of ,memory1 when you pass its portals the wall closes behind you2 there is no visible opening to mark the spot of your entry4 ,a feeling of detachment comes over you4 ,this is augmented by the burst of light and color that flashes across the field of your vision1 and for the first time you understand the purport of those 'banners yellow1 glorious1 golden' which 'do float and flow4' ,they seem to bear you on breezes of their own creating to the freedom of outer spaces4 ,what you had taken for the flauntings of festivity are become the heralds of hyperspace4 ,as you wend your way down the ,avenue of ,time you feel an inexpressive lightness1 a sensation of being lifted out of yourself4 ,the moment seems unique4 ,things are unrelated4 ,there is no concern of proportion4 ,the place is one of immediacy4 ,you wander from the ephemeral to the ephemeral4 ',time is1' you say1 in childish glee4 ,and you hasten to assemble images as many and as disparate as possible1 believing that you are drinking life at its fountain head4 ,the outer world presents itself to your consciousness in the form of facts in juxtaposition4 ,you read guide-books and rejoice in the acquisition of knowledge4 ,gradually through the perception of the same phantasmagoria comes an at-oneness with your fellows4 ,you are caught up in the swirl of a larger self4 ,soon you weary of the heterogeneous4 ,the ,zone of ,consciousness stands revealed in all its grotesqueness4 ',time is1' you cry1 but to give thought its impulse1 and you hasten on if perchance you may discover the direction of the life-principle4 ,what you had taken for reality is but its cross-section - so does this empirical realm stand to the higher world of your spirit1 even as a plane to a solid4 ,now you turn your attention from things to relations in the hope of getting at truth in the large4 ,a passage in ,plato comes vividly to your mind4 ',for a man must have intelligence of universals1 and be able to proceed from the many particulars of sense to one conception of reason2 - this is the recollection of those things which our soul once saw while following ,god1 when1 regardless of that which we now call being1 she raised her head up towards the true being4' ,henceforth the multiplicity that you seek is one of organization and has nothing to do with number4 ',time was1' you proclaim1 that consciousness might sift out the irrelevant4 ,as you pass from collection to collection individual fact becomes prolonged into general law and science dominates the field of thought4 ,a thousand years are as a day when subsumed by its laws4 ,you look at the objects of man's creating with new eyes4 ,the displays are no longer contests of laborious industry but of vision1 and faith4 ,you see that truth has made itself manifest through the long repetition of the same fundamental theme4 ,that which is unique and personal you are surprised to find of less value than the habit perfected by patient practice4 ,the routine and monotony of daily toil become glorified in the light that now falls athwart your vision4 ,you learn to substitute for your personal feeling the common impersonal element felt by the many4 ,your concern is not as formerly to recollect1 but to symbolize4 ,to this end you study frieze and statuary and frequent lectures4 ,your sense of social solidarity grows through mutual comprehension of the same truths4 ,and again that 'vexing1 forward reaching sense of some more noble permanence' urges you on4 ',time was2' you joyously affirm for man to come to the knowledge of an eternal self4 ,but that1 your tradition and education have led you to believe1 is still yonder1 worlds away4 ,and you image the soul in its quest passing from life to life as you are now passing from building to building1 from hall to hall4 ,but glad the thought - there will be courts wherein you may perhaps glimpse the plan of the whole and so gather strength and purpose for another housing4 ,all at once you know that death has no fear for you and you feel toward your present life as you do toward these ,palaces of the ,mundane - the sooner compassed the better4 ,you pass from court to edifice and from edifice to court1 marveling at the symmetry of plan and structure4 ,unity1 balance1 and harmony become manifest as spatial properties - you had been taught to regard them as principles of art4 ,you wonder if art itself may not be merely a matter of right placing - the adjustment of a thing to its environment4 ,you are certain that this is so as each coign and niche offers you its particular insight4 ,strange vagaries float through your mind - one's duty to the inanimate things of one's possession2 the house too large for the personality of the owner2 the right setting for certain idiosyncrasies2 character building as a constructive process2 the ideal as the limit of an infinite series - each pointing the way1 as you think1 to a different vista of human outlook4 ,what then your glad surprise to find these converging toward one ideal synthesis4 ,in anticipation of the splendor you hasten on till earth shall have attained to heaven4 ,there it stands - 'a structure brave1' the ,palace of ,art1 the ,temple of the ,soul - and you know you were made to be perfect too4 ,now that you apprehend the plan of the whole1 symmetry takes on a vital significance for your thought4 ,you try to recall what you learned of it in geometry4 ,there was a folding over1 you remember1 and a fitting together 'congruence' you believe it was called4 ,but that could have no meaning for solids4 ,stop6 a folding over8 ,why1 that implies another dimension6 ,the two halves of a leaf can be brought together only as one or the other is lifted out of the plane of the leaf into a third dimension4 ,so to bring two buildings into superposition when they are alike except for a reverse order of parts1 would necessitate a fourth dimension and a turning inside out4 ,quick as the thought1 the court you are in is that - a building inside out6 ,ah6 you know now wherefor that wonderful uplifting sensation that comes whenever you enter one of these beautiful inclosures4 ,you have passed into the fourth dimension of spatial realization4 ',time is past1' you shout aloud1 and laugh to find yourself on the inside of externality4 ,cubism in architecture6 ,futurism1 in very truth6 ,you visit again the galleries of the ,new ,art1 not to scoff1 but in earnest desire for enlightenment as to this thing which is so near to consciousness and yet so far4 ,you find yourself exclaiming3 ',ah1 there is something here ,unfathomed by the cynic's sneer6' ,as you gaze at the portrayal so strangely weird in form and color you ask yourself where have ,i felt that1 seen this1 before8 ,immediately you are transported in memory to the midst of a crowded street4 ,in the mad bustle and noise you are conscious only of mechanical power2 of speed - always of speed4 ,your voice far away - ',the child1 oh1 the child6' ,a swooning sensation4 ,men's faces as triangles and horses with countless legs4 ,the chaos of primal forces about youthen darkness4 ,as the past fuses with the present you awaken to a larger privilege of life than man now knows4 ,you feel yourself encompassed by truth1 vital and strong4 ,this art1 erstwhile so baffling1 stands revealed as the struggle of a superhuman entity for self-expression4 ,the tendency toward ,god has to begin anew with each round of the life-spiral - that eternal circle which life pursues4 ,now you find yourself in the ,court of the ,universe4 ,bands of many-colored light1 the white radiance of eternity1 stream athwart the sky4 ,the illumination is of the wonder that now is4 ,how marvelously strange the sight of the world-consciousness passing over into a higher thought-form6 ,each individual element suffering reversal to take its proper place in the new world-order6 ,you see positive becoming negative1 negative becoming positive1 and ,evolution giving place to ,involution - a process as yet uncomprehended by our narrow thought4 ,and the secret of the world-struggle across the sea you know2 men passing their nature's bound2 new hopes and loyalties supplanting old ties and joys2 the established creeds of right and wrong as they vanish in this immeasurable thirst for an unknown good4 ,all these things you know to be the travail of the world as it gives birth to some higher entity than individual man4 ',time is past1' and as you speak a dove settles to rest upon a pediment4 ,therewith you are carried away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and you behold a new heaven and a new earth2 for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away4 ,you see the holy city coming down out of heaven - her light is like unto a stone most precious1 as it were a jasper stone1 clear as crystal1 and the walls thereof are adorned with all manner of precious stones - and they brought the glory and the honor of the nations into it4 ,creative ,evolution 7,after ,bergson7 ,out of a sense of immediacy ,comes an intuition of things forming4 ,pressed up by the vital urge1 ,mind meets matter and matter mind ,in mutual understanding4 ,that which apprehends1 since by the object shaped1 ,a fitting instrument is for what itself has wrought4 ,from the same stuff1 ,cut by an identical process1 ,thing and intellect to congruence come1 ,in a space-world forever unfolding4 ,no preestablished harmony this ,of inner to outer realm corresponding1 ,nor spirit nor form by the other determined4 ,stranger far the genesis whereof ,i speak3 ,from the universal flux1 ,in a moment1 that is ever unique1 ,life to new consciousness springs2 ,creator and created together evolve1 ,in a time-stream continually changing4 ,my ,bibliography of ,fourth-,dimensional ,insight ,while to books ,i owe much1 ,i owe still more to the beautiful people by whom ,i have been1 like ,marcus ,aurelius1 all my life surrounded1 and particularly to my parents of large vision4 ,creative ,evolution3 ,bergson4 ,an intuition so great that if spatialized it would lead to a world of infinite dimensions4 ,the ,ethical ,implications of ,bergson's ,philosophy3 ,una ,bernard ,sait4 ,the ,new ,infinite and the ,old ,theology3 ,c4 ,j4 ,keyser4 ,the ,fourth ,dimension3 ,c4 ,h4 ,hinton4 ,first and ,last ,things3 ,h4 ,g4 ,wells4 ,the ,art of ,creation3 ,edward ,carpenter4 ,some ,neglected ,factors of ,evolution3 ,bernard4 ,a scientific presentation of ,involution1 a book than which none other has more light to throw on present world problems4 ,primer of ,higher ,space3 ,claude ,bragdon4 ,projective ,ornament3 ,claude ,bragdon4 ,paracelsus3 ,browning4 ,,abt ,vogler3 ,browning4 ,commemoration ,ode3 ,lowell4 ,the ,book of ,revelations4 ,here ends ,the ,fourth ,dimensional ,reaches of the ,panama-,pacific ,international ,exposition1 written by ,cora ,lenore ,williams1 ,m4,s41 with lines on ,fourth-,dimensional ,insight by ,ormeida ,curtis ,harrison2 and the illustrations are from etchings done by ,gertrude ,partington1 and the ,fourth ,dimensional cover design by ,julia ,manchester ,mackie4 ,published by ,paul ,elder ,company1 and printed under the typographical direction of ,h4 ,a4 ,funke at their ,tomoye ,press1 in ,san ,francisco1 during the month of ,november1 ,nineteen ,hundred and ,fifteen4