Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1566

Letter to James C. Ingebretsen, Spiritual Mobilization, 1521 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles 17, California

December 10, 1955

 

Dear Mr. Ingebretsen:  

     I have just finished reading several back copies of Faith and Freedom, concluding with the current copy for December. The more I learn of your organization, the more deeply I am impressed by it.

        

     The capacity to be inspired is, I believe, the highest and most distinctively human attribute. It has little to do with the maintenance of life and everything to do with its advancement and continued transcendence. It seems to be the condition in which the human psyche rises above all its pedestrian limitations — the sense of liberation, the spirit of liberty. Quality, value and beauty all are selective; they spring from choice of alternatives; they rest upon liberty. Your movement seems more completely than any other to synthesize freedom with religion and its dependency, the whole field of creative art.

    

     So, I want to give myself a good Christmas present; I want the satisfaction of putting Faith and Freedom and its beautiful Christmas greeting, as described on the inside-cover of the December issue, in the hands of a considerable number of friends and acquaintances who, I feel, can be heartened and inspired by it. I am sending you on the attached sheet 30 names and addresses and am enclosing my check for sixty dollars by way of contri­bution.

    

     Prominent on the list are my friends, Richard and Marian Lewis, who came from California to Winchester, Virginia some years ago. Richard Lewis is the head of a small chain of radio stations centering in Winchester. He and his wife are ardent libertarians. I feel that they would like to take advantage of some of the programs Spiritual Mobilization has to offer, and have written them accordingly. I hope they will make contact with you — or you with them.

 

                   Sincerely yours,

SH/m

Enc:  “The Inspiration of Beauty”

List of names to receive Faith and Freedom

Check for contribution