Spencer Heath Archive

Item 3051

Heath’s description in his will of the ideals and discoveries he hopes his beneficiaries will further. The will itself is in the white (originals) envelope.

July 9, 1963

 

 

 

SEVENTH: 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 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 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 three-fold 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.

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 norm 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 9th day of July in the year Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-three.