Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2021

Passages from Heath’s last will and testament

July 9, 1963

 

 

 

              EXHIBIT B TO THE SPENCER H. MACCALLUM

   REVOCABLE TRUST AGREEMENT

      

       PERTINENT PASSAGES FROM THE LAST WILL AND

     TESTAMENT OF SPENCER HEATH

      JULY 9, 1963

     It is my intention that all the beneficiaries of my estate..shall be free from any legal obligations or control concerning the use or disposition of the income or property so received. But it is my earnest wish and hope that, in memory of this Testator, and accordingly as each jointly or independently is inspired so to do, and especially my said grandson [Spencer Heath MacCallum] with particular respect to any real estate he shall receive under this Will, they shall devote themselves and the benefits they have received to furtherance of the ideals and discoveries and the [educational, scientific and philosophical] purposes above referred to and here below elaborated. And in doing this, I am happy to feel that so long as they live, they, and my said grandson in particular, will partake of the wisdom and love of my good friend, Dr. F.A. Harper, of Atherton, California, and his most chosen associates.

 

     It has been a guiding motive, purpose and desire of my life to promote knowledge and understanding of the structure, functions and processes of the voluntary, non-political and mutually beneficial social organization in its correspondence with the harmonious structures and dominantly integrative processes of the material and physical world. The precatory provisions contained in this Will therefore are made with a view to promoting the advance of knowledge and understanding first, of the voluntary social organization and, second, of its underlying organization of the physical and natural world.

 

     In the former field, it has long been my desire to further the progress of knowledge and understanding of the social organization on the basis of the individual being the fundamental unit of the total organization or of its and on the basis of the successive generations of its constituent individuals being in effect, a series or system of energy cycles or waves susceptible of mathematical description and analysis, as is any other system of waves, and the development of the proprietary principle of ownership and contract among individuals as the normal basis of all public administration as it is the basis of the present free-enterprise system of private property administration.

 

     In the latter field, that of the physical and natural world, it has been my intention and desire to further the progress of knowledge and understanding on the basis of the single composite quantum of action, in all its manifold varieties and proportions, being the fundamental unit of objective (physically perceptible) sensory experience and on the basis of events, composed of threefold integrations of mass, of velocity and durational time, rather than structures or bodies or particles, being the prime subject matter of fruitful physical research and investigation. I look forward to developments in this field towards a philosophical conception of the cosmic whole as a boundless, unfolding succession of interwoven and cross-connected events, these events coming into ever greater durational content as they indefinitely proceed.

 

     Since the above methods and fundamental approach have been outlined and considerably applied in my Citadel, Market and Altar and related writings, it is my hope that my beneficiaries will have frequent reference to it and to them in determining the desirability of any educational activities or research that may be furthered or carried on by them or by their aid. This volume should prove a valuable guide. Its method is the same as that proposed by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown in 1936 and published in 1956 under the title, A Natural Science of Society. Citadel, Market and Altar relies on physical and philosophical data supplied by Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead and others and is supported..by historical data extensively collected in the writings of Sir Henry Maine and, more recently, in his monumental The Institution of Property by C. Reinold Noyes.

 

     It has been a key object with me to promote research on the organization and development of self-sustaining proprietary communities under single corporate or similarly unified ownership and administration, as exemplified in contemporary shopping centers, modern hotel properties and federated chains, and similar self-sustaining communities the basic nature, principles and potentialities of which are set out in my Citadel, Market and Altar and in my grandson’s thesis on proprietary communities for which he has his master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Washington, all with a view to such communities’ development and eventual recognition as the form for community organization in general whether looked upon as public or as private.

 

     IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal this ninth day of July in the year Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Three.

Spencer Heath