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7 As to the time-scale of the processes brought about by Mercury and Venus respectively, experience shows that they reveal the cosmic rhythms less clearly than those for which the Moon-activity is responsible. The same is found at the opposite pole. There it is the Saturn generated processes which show the cosmic rhythm more conspicuously than those engendered by Jupiter and Mars.
Very recently, in the time-scale of our development, man adopted the methods of "Big Business," and the religion of many gods and idols, polytheism, has given way to one Supreme God, monotheism. Man found that it made for simplicity and saved his valuable time if he worshiped one god, instead of obeying the hitherto many.
Deduction that she has been modeled by mechanical causes. Confirmation of this by geological discoveries respecting aqueous rocks; corroboration by organic remains. The necessity of admitting enormously long periods of time. Displacement of the doctrine of Creation by that of Evolution Discoveries respecting the Antiquity of Man. The time-scale and space-scale of the world are infinite.
For such a ratio may be resolved into a ratio of two simple ratios. To see this, let us choose the periods of two definite planets say, Earth and Jupiter. During one rotation of Jupiter round the sun the earth circles 12 times round it. Measured in this time-scale, the earth needs for one of her rotations 1 / 12 of a Jupiter-year.
Though wanting the merit of exactness, those numbers, however, justify the claim of vast antiquity, and draw us to the conclusion that the time-scale of the world answers to the space-scale in magnitude. Ancient philosophy declares that man has no means of ascertaining the truth. Differences of belief arise among the early Christians An ineffectual attempt is made to remedy them by Councils.
They are now definitely contemporary, or later or earlier one than another, and we can handle them mathematically, as we say, and far better, practically as well as theoretically, for having thus correlated them one to one with each other on the common schematic or conceptual time-scale.
My soul changes to a vegetable essence, thrilled with a strange and unimagined ecstasy." Earlier in the same evening, when he was forced to keep awake in order not to betray his condition, the dream time-scale appears to have imposed itself upon his waking consciousness with the following curious effect. A lady asked him some question connected with a previous conversation.
There is an unceasing metamorphosis, a sequence of events, without beginning or end. If, on physical principles, we account for minor meteorological incidents, mists and clouds, is it not permissible for us to appeal to the same principle in the origin of world-systems and universes, which are only clouds on a space-scale somewhat larger, mists on a time-scale somewhat less transient?
He picked a plastic cup from the dispenser, filled it from a cooler-tap with amber-colored spiced wine, and drank, tossing the cup into the disposal-bin. He placed a fresh injector on the arm of the chair, ready for the next user of the booth. Then he emerged, glancing at his Fourth Level wrist watch and mentally translating to the First Level time-scale.