Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1136

Penciling in a notebook. See letter to McNally, Item 1239

1939?

Original -> 1130

 

 

 

 

/TRUTH AND UNTRUTH/

 

All untruth is evil and all evil is untruth. Nothing but evil can be spoken of evil. Therefore all speaking of evil is the speaking of untruth.

All truth is good and all that is good is truth. Nothing but good can be spoken of truth. Therefore all speaking of good is the speaking of truth.

When men speak of evil, they must speak only evil of it and therefore only untruth, and they know not how much untruth they speak.

When men speak of good they must speak only good of it and therefore only truth, and they know not how much truth they speak. The truth that passeth understanding, the unconscious truth, is Beauty. Some call it God. It is this Beauty alone that leads men on and on and makes them free.

When poetry or any art deals with good and not evil, it speaks only truth. But not all truth. In its unspoken truth lies its intimations of Beauty, its ravishment of the soul out of bondage. This is the truth that makes men free.