¶ Sensea (1)
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The range of the first three senses are so close together,
and sight is so different, that we may best rank them as
#1, touch, being a primary set; with both #2, olfactoral
coupled with #3, aural, as a secondary set; and #4 sight, as
a tertiary set: therefore in effect, touch is the yesterday
set; while the olfactoral and aural (what you are smelling,
eating, saying, and hearing) are the now set; while sight
(what only may be next) is the future set. We can seem to
see, but we have not yet come to it. Whereas reality is
eternally now, human apprehending demonstrates a large
assortment of lags in rates of cognitions whose myriadly
multivariated frequencies of myriadly multivariated, positive-
negative, omnidirectional aberrations, in multivariated
degrees, produce such elusively off-center effects as
possibly to result in an illusory awareness of an approxi-
mately unlimited number of individually different awareness
patterns, all of whose relative imperfections induce the
illusion of a reality in which ‘life’ is terminal, because
physically imperfect; as contrasted to mind’s discovery of
an omni-interaccommodative complex of a variety of different
a priori, cosmic, and eternal principles, which can only be
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