Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1844

Pencil notes from a card pasted into Ernst Haeckel, The Riddle of the Universe (New York: Vanguard Press, 1926), page 75

August 10, 1961

 

 

MONISTIC RELIGION

No inspiration of Beauty. No uniquely human capacities — exclusively human. No ecstatic vision, beyond our present bodily limitations as to space or time.

No on-going manifestation of creative spirit in the phenomenal world.

No continuous objectivation of the subjective dream — purpose, design.

No human (and divine) self-realization.

No creative (spiritual) self-realization.

No creative dominion for man. No self-determination — freedom of his will.

 

/See how well it reads as follows, revised by deleting the negatives! –MacCallum/

/Inspiration of Beauty. Uniquely human capacities — exclusively human. Ecstatic vision, beyond our present bodily limitations as to space or time.

On-going manifestation of creative spirit in the phenomenal world.

Continuous objectivation of the subjective dream — purpose, design.

Human (and divine) self realization.

Creative (spiritual) self-realization.

Creative dominion for man. Self determination — freedom of his will./