We appear to be four-dimensional beings passing through a
three-dimensional experience. One metaphysician has said that the fourth
dimension is the first — the first being pure Spirit or absolute intelligence,
from which the three-dimensional world proceeds. We are cosmic beings
temporarily caught, as it were, in a finite net. Undoubtedly we have come up
through endless eons of evolution, through the instinctive intelligence of the
animal to the self-consciousness of the human, and are apparently ready to take
the next step which is a greater consciousness of the cosmos and of our unity
with the whole.
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Back of our evolution there appears to be a cosmic impulse
compelling progress, pushing us forward. There also appear subjective memories,
emotions and cravings, and the world of experience, not all of which are
altruistic or salutary, but which pull us forward. We are pushed and pulled at
the same time, whether it be within or without drawing us onward. This mind is
expanding. We continuously slough off the old ideas and take on new and
generally better ones. We have come to the point in our evolution where we are
asking ourselves: What am I? Where am I going? What it is all about? There
seems to be something in us which demands an answer. … As we make a survey of
the enlightened thought of the ages, we come to the conclusion that a cosmic
necessity is impelling our progress.
From “Know Yourself! You
Are More Than You Think” - Ernest
Holmes (1970 , compiled and edited by Willis Kinnear)
