Spencer Heath Archive

Item 255

Penciled and titled by Heath, on 3-ring binder paper

No date

 

 

 

HIERARCHY OF COSMIC ORGANIZATION

 

 

Inorganic substances and materials

Maintenance of nuclear organization in a closed system.

Subject to disintegration under impact of external energy but incapable of external reciprocal (exchange) relations.

 

Organic substances and materials

Composed of closed-system units and capable of but not dependent

on reciprocal external relations.

Living organizations — cells, vegetable and animal

Composed of organic materials, capable of and also dependent on reciprocal external relations — nutrition, metabolism — subject to (and of) an internal rhythm of integration and disintegration, recurrent cycles. Incapable of consciousness or purpose and thus without subjective time.

Vegetable life

Living organizations of living cells capable of and

dependent on reciprocal external relations but not capable of consciousness or purpose and thus not having subjective time.

Animal life

Living organizations of cells capable of and dependent on reciprocal external relations and capable of but not dependent on consciousness or purpose, hence capable of having subjective time.

Human life

Animal life capable of and having subjective time and also capable of not only possessing but also of projecting consciousness and thus having objective time — looking to purposes that are not immediate but future and remote, and thus having creative (spiritual) power — the power to dream and to objectify the dream.

Societal life

Human life in which the units practice /measured/ reciprocal (exchange) relations