Spencer Heath Archive

Item 227

Jotting in a notebook. An additional, related item that lacked a number is slightly rearranged and added here from the front of notebook containing Item 228.

Spring 1935

The first part of this is in the notebook in item 226. The second part is in the notebook in item 228.

 

“Nothing useless is or low   

   Each thing in its place is best”

     The highest ideals, conceptions and experiences, all of them grow out of the so-called lower — the more basic and fundamental. The highest glorifies the lowest and the lowest strengthens and supports all that is high. But out of the balanced and harmonious relation between the high and the low emerges a higher reality that transcends them all.

 

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     There is but one creative power, and it springs always from desire and cannot cease to grow. If desire were not insatiable, men would rest on the lowest satisfaction they receive. The Oriental fatalism that would kill desire kills the creative urge, forfeits the power to be divine.

     Freedom gives power to realize desire. Nineteenth-century freedom releasing reason from its medieval limitations gave the Western World its power to achieve material desires. All higher achievement is but the extension of that power, persistence of desire. Let us not scorn … /the fundamentals of things, the material well-being that makes creative (spiritual) life possible/