to move about”: “In my Father’s
house are many mansions.” Our time is
but a limitation of infinite duration: “Before
Abraham was, I am.” Our sense of space
is the consciousness that we abide in Him; our sense
of time is the consciousness that He abides in us.
Both are modes of apprehension of divinity—growing,
expanding modes. In conceiving of a space of
more than three dimensions we prove that our relation
to God is not static, but dynamic. Christ said
to the man who was sick of the palsy, “Rise,
take up thy bed and walk.” The narrow concept
of three-dimensional space is a bed in which the human
mind has lain so long as to become at last inanimate.
The divine voice calls to us again to demonstrate
that we are alive. Thinking in terms of the higher
we issue from the tomb of materialism into the sunlight
of that sane and life-giving idealism which is Christ’s.