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visit again the galleries of the New Art, not to scoff, but in earnest
desire for enlightenment as to this thing which is so near to
consciousness and yet so far. You find yourself exclaiming:
'Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer!'
As you gaze at the portrayal so strangely weird in form and color you
ask yourself where have I felt that, seen this, before? Immediately you
are transported in memory to the midst of a crowded street. In the mad
bustle and noise you are conscious only of mechanical power; of speed
- always of speed. Your voice far away - 'The child, oh, the child!' A
swooning sensation. Men's faces as triangles and horses with countless
legs. The chaos of primal forces about youthen darkness.
As the past fuses with the present you awaken to a larger privilege of
life than man now knows. You feel yourself encompassed by truth,
vital and strong. This art, erstwhile so baffling, stands revealed as the
struggle of a superhuman entity for self-expression. The tendency
toward God has to begin anew with each round of the life-spiral - that
eternal circle which life pursues.
Now you find yourself in the Court of the Universe. Bands of
many-colored light, the white radiance of eternity, stream athwart the
sky. The illumination is of the wonder that now is. How marvelously
strange the sight of the world-consciousness passing over into a higher
thought-form! Each individual element suffering reversal to take its
proper place in the new world-order! You see positive becoming

negative, negative becoming positive, and Evolution giving place to
Involution - a process as yet uncomprehended by our narrow thought.
And the secret of the world-struggle across the sea you know; men
passing their nature's bound; new hopes and loyalties supplanting old
ties and joys; the established creeds of right and wrong as they vanish
in this immeasurable thirst for an unknown good. All these things you
know to be the travail of the world as it gives birth to some higher
entity than individual man.
'Time is past,' and as you speak a dove settles to rest upon a pediment.
Therewith you are carried away in the spirit to a great and high
mountain and you behold a new heaven and a new earth; for the first
heaven and the first earth are passed away. You see the holy city
coming down out of heaven - her light is like unto a stone most
precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal, and the walls thereof
are adorned with all manner of precious stones - and they brought the
glory and the honor of the nations into it.

Creative Evolution (After Bergson)
Out of a sense of immediacy Comes an intuition of things forming.
Pressed up by the vital urge, Mind meets matter and matter mind In
mutual understanding. That which apprehends, since by the object
shaped, A fitting instrument is for what itself has wrought. From the
same stuff, Cut by an identical process, Thing and intellect to
congruence come, In a space-world forever unfolding.
No preestablished harmony this Of inner to outer realm corresponding,
Nor spirit nor form by the other determined. Stranger far the genesis
whereof I speak: From the universal flux, In a moment, that is ever
unique, Life to new consciousness springs; Creator and created together
evolve, In a time-stream continually changing.

My Bibliography of Fourth-Dimensional Insight
While to books I owe much, I owe still more to the beautiful people by
whom I have been, like Marcus Aurelius, all my life surrounded, and
particularly to my parents of large vision.
Creative Evolution: Bergson. An intuition so great that if spatialized it
would lead to a world of infinite dimensions.

The Ethical Implications of Bergson's Philosophy: Una Bernard Sait.
The New Infinite and the Old Theology: C. J. Keyser.
The Fourth Dimension: C. H. Hinton.
First and Last Things: H. G. Wells.
The Art of Creation: Edward Carpenter.
Some Neglected Factors of Evolution: Bernard. A scientific
presentation of Involution, a book than which none other has more light
to throw on present world problems.
Primer of Higher Space: Claude Bragdon.
Projective Ornament: Claude Bragdon.
Paracelsus: Browning.
ABT Vogler: Browning.
Commemoration Ode: Lowell.
The Book of Revelations.

Here ends "The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition," written by Cora Lenore Williams, M.S., with
lines on Fourth-Dimensional Insight by Ormeida Curtis Harrison; and
the illustrations are from etchings done by Gertrude Partington, and the
Fourth Dimensional cover design by Julia Manchester Mackie.
Published by Paul Elder & Company, and printed under the
typographical direction of H. A. Funke at their Tomoye Press, in San
Francisco, during the month of November, Nineteen Hundred and
Fifteen.

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