Arthur Willink Explained

Arthur Willink (1850-1913) was a nineteenth-century British theologian and clergyman.

Biography

His most notable work is The World of the Unseen, a piece in which he argues that the universe consists of three parallel planes: the earth, heaven, and hell. God, Willink argues, exists on a complete separate, infinite-dimensional space completely removed from these three planes.^{[1] [2]}

In The World of the Unseen, he wrote:

Willink was one of the earliest philosophers to postulate that the world exists in more than the three dimensions we are used to, thus setting the stage for the development of hyperspace theories.^{[3] [4]}

He was curate in charge at Wye Church from 1895 to 1896.^[5]

Works

• Not Death's Dark Night: An Hour's Communion With The Dead (1892)
• The World of the Unseen: An Essay on the Relation of Higher Space to Things Eternal (1893)

Notes and References

1. Edwin Abbott Abbott, Ian Stewart The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 2008, p. 168
2. Bernard V. Lightman Victorian science in context 1997, p. 267
3. Michio Kaku Hyperspace: a scientific odyssey through parallel universes, time warps, and the tenth dimension 1994 p. 55
4. [Paul J. Nahin]
5. Book: Burnham, C P. A Window on the Church of England, The History of Wye Parish Church. 2015. Wye Historical Society. 2022-08-19. 8 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160608073025/http://www.wyehistoricalsociety.org.uk/downloads/Wye%20Church%20History.pdf. live.