ABSTRACT

Professor Alexander, who has made one of the most elaborate statements about it, thinks of it as meaning that Space and Time are the ultimate realities by reference to which all the particular events within the Cosmos. What concerns us directly in our present study is not the Cosmos as a whole, which is perhaps beyond the grasp of human thought. The Source may perhaps be best thought of as a spiritual Reality which achieves values through a creative process. Hegel's own views were largely vitiated by the fact that he thought of the creative process as occurring only on our Earth. It is not even the spatio-temporal Universe, which is probably only a limited aspect of that totality. It is only human life on earth that most of us can hope, with any complete clearness, to comprehend. From the point of view of an individual realization, the development of communities and eventually of Humanity as a whole.