Angels are called "angles" or "builders" but I'll stay with "angels" if that's ok. An angel strides above the mortal world:
"His naked feet...appeared to walk upon the writhing coral carpet that was what the mortal world looked like seen from Upstairs." (p. 548)
How many dimensions are involved here? (We have been told that there are ten or eleven in total.)
The length of the carpet is its temporal dimension;
its breadth and depth are two of its three spatial dimensions;
its third spatial dimension is rotated out of sight;
the angel also has three spatial dimensions and one temporal dimension;
however, his three spatial dimensions correspond to the length, breadth and depth of the carpet;
his temporal dimension might correspond to the invisible third spatial dimension of the carpet?
Thus, a mere four dimensions are sufficient to account for the angel on the world.
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