Spencer Heath Archive

Item 213

Penciling by Heath on notepad paper

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     The philosopher sees things both in the little and in the large; in the least and in the highest reality. Mr. Matchette realized that the experience of man is relative, that it ranges on a scale between zero and infinity, towards either of which he may move but neither fully attain. He sensed, as did Democritus of old, that all things are discontinuous — compositions of least units, minimal actions or events. He called these the Zero atom units of which all things, all reality, all experience, is composed. The opposite extreme, comprising the infinite composition towards which all lesser compositions move but never attain, he calls the Absolute. The directions are positive or negative, creative or disintegrative.

     When we are unresponsive to the Absolute and Ideal, we are at standstill or sink lower on the cosmic scale. And so far as we compose our lives in accord with the Infinite and Absolute, we converge in the direction of the ideal unity towards which we aspire.