Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1806

Notes dictated to Spencer MacCallum for a letter to John J. Grebe.

Summer 1958

 

Original is missing.

 

Dear Dr. Grebe:

     Returning from considerable absence in New York, almost the first thing that strikes my eye on the wall of the principal work room of my little Foundation is a beautifully framed copy of your periodic table of particles. Some time ago I expressed a desire to have this framing done,  and now I am delighted that my grandson has carried this out as a very pleasant surprise for me on my return. My first thought on beholding it went back to Dr. Holmes’s poem, “The Nautilus,” the physical resemblance to which, in the diagram, is so obvious that I was struck by it. However, my grandson reminds me that the process indicated by the diagram is rather mechanically inverse from that so beautifully pictured in the poem. This caused me to reflect that in most cases,  perhaps all, when the cosmic power comes under dominion of the human will, the technology, being rational, is equally operative for good or for evil — either in the service of life diminishing (into higher frequencies, diminishing cycles) or in the service of life advancing towards the vertical depth dimension of immortality at the center of your diagram, in all the divinity thus implied. This leads us both to reflect that not rationality alone, but the source of motivation is the essential determinant as between good and evil — reality and unreality. When the inspiration is from that which we conceive as beautiful, then the energies, whether intuitively or rationally directed, become creative and thereby spiritual and divine.

     I am just dropping you this line to express again our high appreciation of the value of your generalizations.

     We would be very happy indeed to obtain a copy of your address, “__________,” if reprints are available now.*

 

/*Title not recorded in notes, but evidently

the address had been reported in Time Magazine/