Chapter Vi : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 59 CHAPTER VI Methods of investigation of the problem of higher dimensions. The analogy between imaginary worlds of different dimensions. The one-dimensional world on a line. "Space" and "time" of a one-dimensional being. The two-dimensional world...
Chapter Xix : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 232 CHAPTER XIX The intellectual method, objective knowledge. The limits of objective knowledge. The possibility of the expansion of the application of the psychological method. New forms of knowledge. The ideas of Plotinus. Different forms...
Chapter I : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 8 p. 9 TERTIUM ORGANUM p. 10 "I have called this system of higher logic "Tertium Organum" because "for us" it is the "third canon"--third instrument--"of thought" after those of Aristotle and Bacon. The first was "Organon", the second, "Novum...
Table Of The Four Forms Of The Manifestati : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 337 TABLE OF THE FOUR FORMS OF THE MANIFESTATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS For ease of online reading, I have exchanged the rows and columns in this chart.--JBH 1ST FORM 2ND FORM 3RD FORM 4TH FORM THE SENSE OF SPACE AND TIME The sense of one-dimensional...
Chapter Xviii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 213 CHAPTER XVIII Rationality and life. Life as knowledge. Intellect and emotions. Emotion as an organ of knowledge. The evolution of emotion from the standpoint of knowledge. Pure and impure emotions. Personal and impersonal emotions. Personal...
Author's Preface To The Second Edition : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. xiii AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION IN revising "Tertium Organum" for the second edition in English my chief concern has been to cordinate its terminology with the more developed terminology of those of my books written after...
Chapter Xxiii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 306 CHAPTER XXIII "Cosmic Consciousness" of Dr. Bucke. The three forms of consciousness according to Dr. Bucke. Simple consciousness, or the consciousness of animals. Self-consciousness, or the consciousness of men. Dr. Bucke's fundamental err...
Title Page : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], TERTIUM ORGANUM THE THIRD CANON OF THOUGHT A KEY TO THE ENIGMAS OF THE WORLD P. D. OUSPENSKY TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY NICHOLAS BESSARABOFF AND CLAUDE BRAGDON--WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLAUDE BRAGDON SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, AUTHORIZED...
Chapter Xi : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 124 CHAPTER XI Science and the problem of the fourth dimension. The address of Prof. N. A. Oumoff before the Mendeleevskian Convention in 1911--"The Characteristic Traits and Problems of Contemporary Scientific Thought." The new physics...
Untitled : * This is P.D. Ouspensky's Tertium Organum, which he believed was the third major philosophical synthesis, the previous being those of Aristotle and Bacon. Originally issued in Russian in 1912, this is the second, revised edition. It was translated into English and published in 1922. This is...
Chapter Xiv : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 156 CHAPTER XIV The voices of stones. The wall of a church and the wall of a prison. The mast of a ship and a gallows. The shadow of a hangman and of an ascetic. The soul of a hangman and of an ascetic. The different combinations of known...
Chapter Ix : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 98 CHAPTER IX The receptivity of the world by a man and by an animal. Illusions of the animal and its lack of control of the receptive faculties. The world of moving planes. Angles and curves considered as motion. The third dimension as moti...
Chapter Xvii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 198 CHAPTER XVII A living and rational universe. Different forms and lines of rationality. Animated nature. The souls of stones and the souls of trees. The soul of a forest. The human "I" as a collective rationality. Man as a complex being...
Conclusion : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 333 CONCLUSION In conclusion I wish to speak of those wonderful words, full of profound mystery from the "Apocalypse" and the apostle Paul's "Epistle to the Ephesians", which are placed as the epigraph of this book. The Apocalyptic angel swears...
Chapter Xxii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 270 CHAPTER XXII Theosophy of Max Mller. Ancient India. Philosophy of the Vednta. "Tat twam asi". Knowledge by means of the expansion of consciousness as a reality. Mysticism of different ages and peoples. Unity of experiences. "Tertium Organum"...
Chapter Viii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 80 CHAPTER VIII Our receptive apparatus. Sensation. Perception. Conception. Intuition. Art as the language of the future. To what extent does the three-dimensionality of the world depend upon the properties of our receptive apparatus? What might...
Chapter Xiii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 143 CHAPTER XIII The apparent and the hidden side of life. Positivism as the study of the phenomenal side of life. Of what does the "two-dimensionality" of positive philosophy consist? The regarding of everything upon a single plane, in one...
Chapter Iv : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 38 CHAPTER IV In what direction may the fourth dimension lie? What is motion? Two kinds of motion--motion in space and motion in time--which are contained in every movement. What is time? Two ideas contained in the conception of time. The new...
Chapter Xxi : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 254 CHAPTER XXI Man's transition to a higher logic. The necessity for rejecting everything "real. Poverty of the spirit." The recognition of the infinite alone as real. Laws of the infinite. Logic of the finite--the "Organon" of Aristotle...
Chapter Ii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 23 CHAPTER II A new view of the Kantian problem. The books of Hinton. The "space-sense" and its evolution. A system for the development of a sense of the fourth dimension by exercises with colored cubes. The geometrical conception of space. Three...
Chapter Xvi : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 176 CHAPTER XVI The phenomenal and the noumenal side of man. "Man-in-himself." How do we know the inner side of man? Can we know of the existence of consciousness in conditions of space not analogous to ours? Brain and consciousness. Unity...
Introduction To The English Translation : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION IN naming his book "Tertium Organum" Ouspensky reveals at a stroke that astounding audacity which characterizes his thought throughout--an audacity which we are accustomed to associate with the Russi...
Chapter Vii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 73 CHAPTER VII The impossibility of the mathematical definition of dimensions. Why does not mathematics sense dimensions? The entire conditionality of the representation of dimensions by powers. The possibility of representing all powers on a line...
Chapter Xii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 136 CHAPTER XII Analysis of phenomena. What defines different orders of phenomena for us? Methods and forms of the transition of one order of phenomena into another. Phenomena of motion. Phenomena of life, Phenomena of consciousness. The central...
Chapter Xv : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 166 CHAPTER XV Occultism and love. Love and death. Our different relations to the problems of death and to the problems of love. What is lacking in our understanding of love? Love as an every-day and merely psychological phenomen...
Chapter X : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 112 CHAPTER X The spatial understanding of time. The angles and curves of the fourth dimension in our life. Does motion exist in the world or not? Mechanical motion and "life." Biological phenomena as the manifestation of motions going ...
Chapter Xx : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 243 CHAPTER XX The sense of infinity. The Neophyte's first ordeal. An intolerable sadness. The loss of everything real. What would an animal feel on becoming a man? The transition to the new logic. Our logic as founded on the observati...
Chapter Iii : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 34 CHAPTER III What may we learn about the fourth dimension by a study of the geometrical relations within our space? What should be the relation between a three-dimensional body and one of four dimensions? The four-dimensional body as the tracing...
Chapter V : * "Tertium Organum", by P.D. Ouspensky, [1922], p. 52 CHAPTER V Four-dimensional space. "Temporal body"--"Linga Sharra". The form of a human body from birth to death. Incommensurability of three-dimensional and four-dimensional bodies. Newton's fluents. The unreality of constant quantities in our...