Spencer Heath Archive

Item 414

Taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath.

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Suppose that there is a divine process leading to “far-off divine” events    almost anyone can get a com­fort or relief — perhaps even a positive joy — out of such items of behavior as prayer, blessing food, symbolizing saints, practicing crude rituals. These may rest on a feeling for the Whole, the One or the All, but only a feeling. The province of the intellect is to generalize these particulars, establish a formula, pattern, or the like into which they all harmoniously fall. This general pattern then establishes a framework into which not only these items of creative experience find their related places but provides categories for new conceptions and new experiences all belonging to the same.

These new dreams can be felt and seen in their relation to the whole and vast new worlds of creative power and experience can be rationally and rapidly developed, whereas the original spiritual data could have been achieved only slowly by fortuitous and empirical processes.

These observations are for the illustrating of how the intellect liberates the human spirit from its dependence on the fortuitous elements of environment in the manner of all other mere creatures into the creative mode of experience in which the dream is wrought upon the environment — the divine prerogative of spiritual creation.

— Whether that makes real sense or not it sounds like something. Anybody could read that and it sounds like something so that even the simple-minded might find nourish­ment in it.