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This aspect of existence when viewed from the level of man, however, is a reverse of the greater truth above, for man works on the secondary opinion that mechanics are real, and that his own personal considerations are less important than space, energy and time. This is an inversion, a switch. These mechanics of space, energy and time, the forms, objects and combinations thereof, have taken such precedence in man that they have become more important than considerations as such, and so ability is overpowered and he is unable to act freely in the framework of mechanics. Man, therefore, has an inverted view. Whereas considerations such as those he daily makes are the actual source of space, energy, time and forms, man is operating so as not to alter his basic considerations; he therefore invalidates himself by supposing another determinism of space, energy, time and form. Although he is part of that which created these, he gives them such strength and validity that his own considerations thereafter must fall subordinate to space, energy, time and form, and so he cannot alter the universe in which he dwells.
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