220.10 Reality and Eternality

220.11 What the mathematicians have been calling abstraction is reality. When they are inadequate in their abstraction, then they are irrelevant to reality. The mathematicians feel that they can do anything they want with their abstraction because they don’t relate it to reality. And, of course, they can really do anything they want with their abstractions, even though, like masturbation, it is irrelevant to the propagation of life.

220.12 The only reality is the abstraction of principles, the eternal generalized principles. Most people talk of reality as just the after-image effects the realization lags that register superficially and are asymmetric and off-center and thereby induce the awareness called life. The principles themselves have different lag rates and different interferences. When we get to reality, it’s absolutely eternal.

220.13 The inherent inaccuracy is what people call the reality. Man’s way of apprehending is always slow: ergo, the superficial and erroneous impressions of solids and things that can be explained only in principle.