Spencer Heath Archive

Item 466

Penciling on the back of an investment letter dated March 30, 1946

 

 

The fundamental entity, actuality or fact is the Cosmos, the Universe, the All, without any limitations, qualifications, or comparison.

The primary conception is the I, the self, with its necessary corollary of the not-self, the other.

The primary fact is, I am, I exist, with its necessary corollary of, the other is, the other exists.

The conception (grasping together) of the self is an abstraction (drawing away) from the whole. It is subjective and abstract.

The conception of Other, of the not self, is a conception of the objective and concrete.

The cosmos, as a total existence, and continuing event, is an integration of three aspects — that of Mass, that of Motion, and that of Time, each of infinite or indefinite magnitude or extent.

Any integration of finite Mass, Motion and Time is a finite and particular event.

Events, therefore may take place wholly within the individual or wholly external to him, or by intermixture of the two.

When the two are intermixed the event or events is called experience or objective experience (Note: events that take place wholly within an individual are sometimes called subjective experiences).

All experience is a correlation between subjective and objective events.

When the objective event determines or governs the subjective reaction, then and to that extent the individual is a creature. To the extent that subjective events determine objective events as desired, the individual is a creator.

The relationship between two or more finite events can only be ascertained by measurement of their respective magnitudes of Mass, Motion, and Time. There is no fourth fundamental unit. All secondary units are derived from and may be stated in terms of these three. The international units for the measurement of Mass, Motion, and Time are the gram, the centimeter, and the second.

Since every dimension must be a measurement and every measurement a certain number of units, there can be no fundamental dimensions except in terms of some fundamental units of Mass, Motion and Time. There are no magnitudes but these three and such as are or may be derived from them.

These magnitudes, however, may be conveniently symbolized and thus visualized by the lengths of three lines proceeding from a single point, each line being perpendicular to the other two. In this way any event whose Mass, Motion and Time magnitudes are known can be represented symbolically by a volume or solid having the three customary spatial dimensions; and the diverse characters of different events may be illustrated by the differences between the respective solids or volumes representing them.

Let a line 0N rising or pendant vertically from the given point 0 have as many units of length as there are units of mass in the known mass-magnitude in the event. The number of centimeters in this line will correspond with the number of grams in the mass. Let a line 0S proceeding horizontally from the point represent, by its length in centimeters, the number of centimeters of motion attributed to the mass and contained in the event. A line 0T …

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