Fifth Dimension

A.E. Dyson defines ''the fifth dimension'' as our unending moment of consciousness - related Janus-wise to clock-time (the Second Law of Thermodynamics) and to Eternity. He studies in depth plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; Christ''s two great prayers and his proclamation of ''The Kingdom''; and mystical traditions - with Otto, T.S. Eliot, Vaughan, Blake, Wordsworth among the witnesses....